Alexey A. Petrukhin

On March 12, 1973, Alexey A. Petrukhin was born in Moscow region, Russia. While studying at high school, he went in for sports, that's why after graduating from high school, Alexey entered the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture. In 2002 he graduated from the Moscow State Juridical University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian Federation and started to work in movie business. At the same time Petrukhin was studying Acting at the Acting Mastership Courses. In 2005 he was awarded the degree of the Doctor of Juridical Science at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of the MIA of RF. The first motion picture, in which Alexey Petrukhin participated not only as a producer, but as an actor too, was the movie "Jacked$" (2004). Russian mass media published a record number of reviews pertaining to this movie: 1,123 articles. That movie was followed by a blockbuster titled "Velvet Revolution" (2005). Then a Georgian motion picture "The Last Quest" was released in February 2008. At present Petrukhin is a producer and one of the stars in an ambitious international projects "Viy" (a motion picture, based on the first manuscript of a classical work by N.V. Gogol). Besides, Alexey is also getting ready for the shooting of his debut as a film director - a tragic farce "To Be or Not To Be" (based on William Shakespeare's "Hamlet").