Andrey Burkovsky

Andrey Vladimirovich Burkovsky (Андре́й Влади́мирович Бурко́вский; born November 14, 1983) is a Russian-born American actor, former KVN player, champion of the Major League as a member of the Maximum team (2008). However, after becoming famous as a comedian he soon started taking on more serious roles in theater, on TV and in cinema. Since 2014, he has been an actor of the Moscow Art Theatre He is known for starring in Start original series The Mediator, More.tv original series An Hour Before the Dawn and in feature films Milk, Doctor Lisa and Tchaikovsky's Wife.

Life and career
Burkovsky was born in Tomsk. In 2000, after graduating from school, he entered the Law Institute of Tomsk State University, graduating in 2005.

In 2010, Burkovsky entered the Moscow Art Theatre School for the course of Igor Zolotovitsky and Sergei Zemtsov. He graduated in 2014.

In 2016, Andrey Burkovsky enjoys playing ice hockey in his spare time.

In 2022, Burkovsky and his family moved to Los Angeles. In January 2023, he performed a role in Aleksandr Molochnikov’s theatrical production of Chekhov in the Chelsea in the USA.

However, the artist continued to be a member of the Moscow Art Theater troupe until August 2023.

Television
At the beginning of 2009, together with his KVN teammate Mikhail Bashkatov, he was invited to the cast of the sketch-comedy series “Give Youth!” (ДаЁшь молодЁжь) which aired originally on STS channel, where he played the metrosexual Danila Fox, the gopnik Rzhavy, the policeman Vyushkin and the young spouse Valera, as well as a number of other characters. The show lasted for 9 seasons.

In 2012, Burkovsky got the role of Ilya in the sitcom Kitchen on the STS channel, where he appeared for the first two seasons.

Since March 2016, he has been the host of the “Not Fact” program on the Zvezda TV channel.

On October 1, 2016, Ice Age ice skating competition show returned to Channel One, and among the participants was Andrey. His partner in the project was the famous figure skater Tatiana Navka.

In 2021 Burkovsky starred in the lead role of The Mediator, a Start original crime drama series about a manipulative negotiator Andrei Pavlov who saves hostages and people who attempt suicide. Two seasons have been released.

In 2022 Burkovsky starred in Amore More - a dramedy series about poly-amorous relationships.

Family

 * Father - Tomsk businessman Vladimir Grigorievich Burkovsky.
 * Mother - Burkovskaya Lyudmila Ivanovna, owner of the restaurants "Eternal Call" and "Hmel" in the city of Tomsk.
 * Brother - Alexander. On January 8, 2009, at the age of 23, he crashed at a ski resort in Sheregesh in the Kemerovo region (while skiing, he crashed into a tree at full speed, as a result of which he received multiple injuries which led to his death).
 * Wife - Olga Burkovskaya (the wedding took place on August 29, 2008).
 * Children: March 14, 2011 son Maxim was born. On June 5, 2013, daughter Alisa was born.

Controversy
In 2016, Andrey Burkovsky together with dancing partner Tatiana Navka drew ire from the public as they appeared in Ice Age - the Russian version of Dancing on Ice dressed as Holocaust concentration camp prisoners. Burkovsky and Navka said that the dance was inspired by the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful and was not meant to cause offense.

Filmography

 * Kitchen (TV series 2012–2016) - Ilya
 * Furious (2017) - Rostislav
 * Yolki 6 (2017) - Igor
 * Sober Driver (2019) - Stanislav
 * Milk (2019) - Seryozha
 * Deadly Illusions (2020) - Denis Romanov
 * Doctor Lisa (2020) - Sergei Kolesov
 * Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022) - Vladimir Meshchersky