Yura Borisov

Yuri Alexandrovich Borisov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Бори́сов, romanized: Yuriy Aleksandrovich Borisov; born 8 December 1992) is a Russian actor. He made his acting debut in the crime drama Elena (2011) and then won a Golden Eagle Award for his portrayal of Mikhail Kalashnikov in the biopic AK-47 (2020). He also starred in the films The Bull (2019), The Silver Skates (2020), Compartment No. 6 (2021), and Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021). For his international breakthrough performance in the American film Anora (2024), he was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Borisov was born in Reutov, Moscow Oblast, near Moscow and is of Russian origins. In 2014 he graduated from the Shchepkin Higher Theater School, and won the Golden Leaf award in the Best Actor category for the role of Alexander Tarasovich Ametistov in the play Zoyka's Apartment.

Borisov started working as a film actor in 2010, and played main roles in various television series. In 2013–14, he worked at the Moscow theater Satyricon.

In 2019, he starred in the film The Bull, for which he was nominated for the 18th Golden Eagle Awards 2020 in the category Best Leading Actor, and also received an award "Event of the Year" from the magazine "Kinoreporter" in the category "Discovery of the Year". He also played minor roles in the films T-34, Union of Salvation, and Invasion.

In February 2020, the film AK-47 was released, in which Borisov played the main role – Mikhail Kalashnikov, and received positive reviews from film critics. For this role he was awarded the Golden Eagle Award – 2021 for Best Leading Actor. He was the winner of the Golden Eagle Award in 2021. GQ Russia chose him as Actor of the Year in 2020.

In 2021, Borisov appeared in eight feature films, including the Netflix original film The Silver Skates. He also played the lead role in Juho Kuosmanen's Finnish-Russian film Compartment No. 6, which won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2024, Borisov voiced Behemoth the Cat in The Master and Margarita, and played Igor in the Palme d'Or-winning film Anora, directed by Sean Baker. For his performance in the film, he received nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actor, as well as ensemble nominations from both Critics' Choice and SAG. With his Oscar nomination, Borisov became the first Russian to be nominated in an acting category in over four decades, following Mikhail Baryshnikov's nomination in the same category in 1977.

• List of Russian Academy Award winners and nominees

• List of European Academy Award winners and nominees

• List of actors with Academy Award nominations

• List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for non-English performances

• Yura Borisov at IMDb

• Yuri Borisov on kino-teatr.ru