Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov was a Soviet and Russian actor and the Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1988).
Tabakov studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Upon graduating, he became one of the founding fathers of the Sovremennik Theatre. He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière and Salieri for over 20 years. In 1986, Tabakov persuaded his students to form the Tabakov Studio attached to the Moscow Art Theatre. Among those who studied at the studio were Russian actors Yevgeny Mironov, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrey Smolyakov and Alexandre Marine, and American actor Jon Bernthal.
Tabakov's movie career paralleled the theatrical. He was featured in Grigori Chukhrai's Clear Skies (1961), Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1966–67), TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978), the Academy Award-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980), Nikita Mikhalkov's Oblomov (1981) and Dark Eyes (1986), and the mock red western A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines (1987).
| Date of Birth | 17th August 1935 |
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| Date of Death | 12th March 2018 |
| Age at Death | 82 Years |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Country | Russia |
| Current City | Saratov |
| Birth Place | Saratov |
| Death Place | Moscow |
| Nationality | Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Spouses | Ludmila Ivanovna Krylova Marina Zudina |
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| Children | Anton Tabakov Aleksandra Tabakova Pavel Tabakov Maria Tabakova |
| Education |
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| Moscow Art Theatre School |
| Occupation | theatrical director, stage actor, film actor, manufacturer, actor, film producer, pedagogue, drama teacher, theatrical producer, television actor, director, manager |
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