Oleg Stefan
Date of birth: 1959-09-07
Place of birth: Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Олег Штефанко, Oleg Stefanko, Oleh Stefan, Oleg Stefan
Biography
After graduating from high school in 1976, he entered the Shchepkin Theatre School in Moscow. As a second-year student, he played two roles on the stage of the Maly Theatre. In 1979, his television and film career began. After graduating from theatre school in 1980, he was accepted into the troupe of the Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR, where he played with such actors as Smoktunovsky, Tsarev, Ilyinsky, Zharov, the Solomin brothers, and Martsevich. He worked on radio, television, and in cinema. He toured many cities in the Soviet Union with his solo concert program. In 1985-1986, he served in the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces in the Moscow region in the engineering troops. On the stage of the Maly Theatre, he played in more than 20 plays. Some of them are: Long Day's Journey into Night, Agony, Cyrano de Bergerac, and The Shore. In early 1992, Stefanko emigrated to the United States. Living in New York, he mastered new professions: waiter, taxi driver, bartender, car dealer; security guard, kickboxer; was engaged in the sale of insurance policies. At the same time, he worked in the modeling business, theater, played on the stage of the "Theater of New York City". In New York, Oleg starred in his first American film. In 1994, he moved to Los Angeles, worked in television and film. He was accepted into two American acting guilds: SAG - Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In Los Angeles, he continued his education at the "L.A. Actors Circle Theater School". Having received American citizenship, he changed his last name to Oleg Stefan. Under this name, he starred in 14 Hollywood films, working with such actors as Robert De Niro, Michael York, Gene Hackman, Sigourney Weaver, Jude Law, James Belushi, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Vincent Perez, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson, Denis O'Hea and others. He later returned to Russia, where he continued acting. Oleg Stefanko gained wide fame for his role as Leonid Zubov in the TV series "The Forester". In total, Stefanko has 76 film and television works, in 54 of which he played the leading roles. Personal life: First wife - Larisa Stefanko, Daughter - Kristina, Son - John (Ivan), born in the late 1990s. It was decided to call him Ivan. But after some time his name was changed to John, as it sounds better to Americans. Second wife - Anna Stefanko.
Movie Credits
Tetris
2023-03-15
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out
Silent Partner
2005-05-26
Gordon Patrick, a young CIA analyst is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a major Russi
The Apocalypse Code
2007-10-02
Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides the
Countdown
2006-11-02
There will be an explosion exactly in 48 hours in Moscow. The information was provided by an agent w
Family Name
2006-01-01
A new father could not be more happy about the birth of his first son...until he learns that the bab
Countdown
2006-11-02
There will be an explosion exactly in 48 hours in Moscow. The information was provided by an agent w
In Search for Captain Grant
1985-05-13
Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Gra
Poor Masha
1981-06-06
Young nurse Masha tries to check her boyfriend Kolya by telling him that she's pregnant.
The Last Bunker
1991-10-16
The film tells about the last stage of the struggle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army against the NKVD
The Bay of Death
1991-06-10
The hero of the film, police captain Anatoly Lensky, is an adventurer who is characterized by nobili
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001-09-07
Stone (the Antichrist) becomes President of the European Union and uses his seat of power to dissolv
Duplicity
2009-03-18
Two romantically involved corporate spies team up to manipulate a race to corner the market on a med
Nude with a Hat
1991-04-12
A promising erotic photographer Kostya Telegin is kidnapped and his friends-journalists decide to fi
The Good Shepherd
2006-12-11
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh
I Believe in Love
1987-01-01
The film is a fantasy about how the destinies of Sergei and Varya Lukonin, a brave tanker and theate
Village Story
1981-07-14
The fate of the main character, Grisha Gorelov, a young tractor driver who dreams of happiness for t
Экзамен на бессмертие
1983-01-01
In the winter of 1941, young cadets from the Red Banner School named after the Supreme Soviet of the
Point of Return
1987-01-14
An airplane makes an emergency landing on one of the Arctic islands. The crew and passengers of the
Control Strip
1980-10-30
While trying to cross the State border of the USSR, a resident of one of the Western intelligence se
The Rivals
1985-08-01
A young talented athlete Natalia Ozernikova, having retired from swimming due to age, began to pract
Streak of Luck
1983-01-01
The fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series comprising three short stories. The first story
A Profitable Position
1981-09-19
A young official, ambitious, but holding idealistic views, doesn't want to curry favor, or use patro
Major Vetrov
2007-08-09
A propaganda film about Major Roman Vetrov, a veteran of the Afghan war, cadre officer of special fo
In the Service of My Country
2003-11-24
Somewhere in the Middle East, undercover agent Victor Bystroletov arrives in one of the oil kingdoms
Hotel "Eden"
1991-11-11
Very nice young women - Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov - came to Crimea to relax. They settle in the Eden Ho
Via Gobi and Khingan
1981-10-06
About the events of the final stage of the Second World War — the defeat by Soviet and Mongolian tro
Два плюс два
2015-09-27
Film Festival
2006-09-22
The musical follows events taking place at the Moscow International Film Festival, at the beginning
The Master of East
1992-01-01
Aborigine
1988-10-01
Fifteen years old Boris hates his life and is ready for everything to just leave his small Siberian
Black Devil
1993-01-01
Operational activities
2007-01-01
He is a cold-blooded and dangerous criminal. He always works alone and never leaves a trace. The act
Strategic operational 2: Combine
2009-01-01
The task force under the command of Major Oleg Sorokin is facing a dangerous and many-sided enemy. C
The Precipice
1984-01-19
Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on th
Ono
1989-12-01
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Tow
Breakthrough
2005-12-02
Russian paratroopers company meets superior forces of Chechen separatists during raid in mountains a
The Invite
A photographer returns home to visit his parents in a story about family, sacrifice, and the calling
Scarecrow
1983-12-31
A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is be
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
1982-10-18
The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1
King Lear
1982-07-03
The story of King Lear is the tale of a man blinded by his own despotism, who, in his old age, faces
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1989-01-31
About the tragedy of a family whose members are subjected to such terrible vices as drug addiction a