Mark Eidelstein

Mark Alexandrovich Eidelstein (Марк Алекса́ндрович Эйдельштéйн, also tr. Mark Aleksandrovich Eydelshteyn; born February 18, 2002) is a Russian film, television, and theatre actor.

He gained fame after playing the leading role in the drama The Land of Sasha, the world premiere of which took place in February 2022 at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. Dubbed by journalists Russian Timothee Chalamet.

Early life and education
Mark Eidelstein was born on February 18, 2002 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He has a younger brother, Matvey Eydelshteyn (English: Matthew Eidelstein). His mother, Olesya Valeryevna Eydelshteyn, works as a teacher of stage speech at the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School named after Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, where the young man often ran away from classes.

In 2018, Mark passed the regional selection of the "Living Classics" competition for young readers and made it to the all-Russian final, held in Artek. There I met the dean of the acting department of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts by Taras Belousov, who advised the young talent to finish school as soon as possible and enter a theater university.

In 2019, after graduating from school, he entered the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio (workshop of Marina Brusnikina and Sergei Shchedrin) as an external student, from which he graduated in 2023.