Ilya Shcherbinin: biography and filmography of the actor

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Shcherbinin Ilya is a Russian film actor, screenwriter, photographer and writer. The audience could see him in many films, but the television series “Chernobyl. The Exclusion Zone is currently the most successful project in his filmography.

Life path

Ilya was born in Novosibirsk on June 3, 1986. The boy spent almost all his childhood in the village of Togur, Tomsk Region. From an early age, he loved to read literary works and began to compose his own short stories. After some time, Ilya wrote a story, which he called "Old Togur". As a child, the artist dreamed of connecting his life with the circus and becoming a clown, but later realized that acting was his vocation.

After graduating from school, Ilya Shcherbinin returned to Novosibirsk and became a student at the theater school (course of A. Kuznetsov and T. Kocherzhinskaya). Then, heeding the advice of his leader, he moved to Moscow and successfully entered one of the institutes of cinematography at the screenwriting department. Shcherbinin's book "Old Togur" was included in the long list of the "Large Prose" nomination of the "Neformat" award. In 2015, Ilya, in collaboration with his fellow student at VGIK A. Tyuzhenpublished a collection of scripts and works en titled "Not politically specific". The literary work of the actor was also appreciated by the Gennady Karpunin Prize and the Astafyev Fund.

Filmography

Ilya Shcherbinin made his debut in the drama "Wild Field" with a cameo role of Panka. Prior to that, he had experience working on the TV series Avtonomka, which was released in 2006. In the credits, Ilya's name was not indicated. The next character of Shcherbinin was a bully in the melodrama "Short Circuit", a young fighter from the dramatic television series "Moscow Yard" and Grushnitsky from the film "Pechorin". In 2011, the artist took part in the filming of the short film "Bird". Later, Ilya Shcherbinin played the Queen in the detective melodrama Your World and Peter III in the documentary series The Romanovs.

With the premiere of the fantastic series “Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone the artist gained recognition of millions of viewers of post-Soviet countries. In the series, which currently consists of two seasons, Shcherbinin played Igor Matveev, who originally called himself Podcaster. The artist perfectly portrayed a guy slowly losing his mind, while making videos of his irrational actions.

Private life

The actor has been married for the past few years. Ilya Shcherbinin met his beloved, who is also a screenwriter by education, in 2013. The actor does not disclose the name of his wife. It is known that the couple lives in Moscow.