Olegar Fedoro
Olegar Fedoro is a Ukrainian-born former Soviet performer who later became a Spanish and then English actor.
He enrolled in the acclaimed VGIK Film School where before him studied his colleagues of the profession and friends Andrei Tarkovski, Kira Muratova and Sergei Parajanov.
After graduating from VGIK he started with a work for Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.
He is perhaps best known for his roles:
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the Canadian TV series Russia based on Peter Ustinov's book
- Jesuit Priest Tebaldo in Moroccan-Spanish film The Battle of the Three Kings
- Muhammed XIII, penultimate King of Granada and uncle to Boabdil, in Spanish TV series Requiem for Granada
- in Jonathan Glazer's Karmacoma by Massive Attack, where he keeps mumbling in a dazed manner: "I am... a dangerous... person"
- Adolf Hitler in Simon Brasse's Sanhedrin
- Jack the Ripper in The Notebooks of Cornelius Crow
- Tasha's father in Jan Dunn Dogme film Gypo
- Christopher Columbus in History Channel's Columbus: The Lost Voyage
- The tattooist in David Cronenberg's film Eastern Promises, where he was also the Ukrainian-Russian dialect coach to Viggo Mortensen in his 2008 Oscar-nominated role.
- The father in Madonna's directorial debut Filth and Wisdom
- Andrei Ivanov in Pedro Touceda's road movie Polillas
- The Rock Boat's helmsman in Richard Curtis' comedy The Boat That Rocked.
- He was the Russian dialect coach to John Malkovich in Siberian Education.
Selected filmography
Awards and nominations
Ibero-American Festival of Short films ABC, Spain| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 2013 | Best Actor | The Hummingbird | Winner |
Student Academy Awards, USA
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 2012 | Honorary Foreign Film Award | For Elsie | Winner |
Royal Television Society Award, UK
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 2012 | Student Television Award | For Elsie | Winner |
Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 2009 | Best Actor | Polillas | Winner |
Barcelona International Film Festival
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 2008 | Best Actor | Polillas | Winner |
Torino International Film Festival
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 2006 | Best Cast in Video | Gypo'' | Winner |