Artyom Nikolayevich Bystrov (born March 19, 1985, Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod) is a Russian stage and film actor. He graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School named after E. A. Evstigneev and from the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, and since 2009 has been an actor at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. He became widely known in 2014 after his leading role in Yuri Bykov's film "The Fool," which earned him the award for Best Actor at the 67th Locarno International Film Festival.[1]

Nizhny Novgorod years

Artyom Bystrov grew up in Nizhny Novgorod. His father was a long-haul truck driver and his mother a secretary-typist; no one in the family had any connection to the acting profession.[2] From the fifth grade he attended a school with an advanced curriculum in the arts and aesthetics, studied piano at a music school, and for ten years practiced karate.[2] At first he planned to apply to military institutes — the one in Vladivostok (marine infantry) or the one in Ryazan (airborne troops) — but in the end he chose the theater. In 2006 he graduated with honors from the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School named after E. A. Evstigneev (the class of R. Ya. Lyavite).[3][2]

Theater career

In 2009 Bystrov graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio (the class of K. A. Raikin) and, at the invitation of Oleg Tabakov, joined the company of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre.[2] His stage work includes roles in the productions "Damned and Killed" (dir. V. Ryzhakov, 2010), "The Precipice" (dir. A. Shapiro, 2010), "The White Guard" (dir. S. Zhenovach, joined the cast in 2012), "The Master and Margarita" (dir. Ya. Sas) — Levi Matvei, "The Drunks" (dir. V. Ryzhakov, 2014), and others.[2] In parallel, Bystrov teaches acting at the Vysshaya Shkola of Performing Arts (Konstantin Raikin's theater school).[3]

Film

The actor made his film debut in 2009 in the movie "Reflections" ("Otblyeski"), followed by a minor role in "Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel."[2] Recognition came in 2014: in Yuri Bykov's drama "The Fool" ("Durak"), Bystrov played the plumber Dima Nikitin, a man in search of justice, and won the award for Best Actor at the 67th Locarno International Film Festival.[2][1] That same year saw the release of the crime melodrama "The Eight" ("Vosmyorka"), directed by Aleksey Uchitel and based on a novella by Zakhar Prilepin, in which he also played one of the leading roles.[2] Later the actor appeared in the films "T-34" (2019) and "Earthquake" (2016), and in the television series "Method," "Trigger," "Container," "Stepfather," and others — more than 50 film and television credits in all by 2023.[4]

Sources

  1. baike.baidu.com — Artyom Bystrov (Russian actor)_Baidu Encyclopedia
  2. stuki-druki.com — Artyom Bystrov
  3. ntu-nn.ru — Artyom Bystrov — Nizhny Novgorod Theater College
  4. kinopoisk.ru