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 Actor (Born 19. 10. 1943)
Victor Semenovsky graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography named after N. Cherkasov in 1968 (professor A. Musil’s class). He was a staff actor at the Lenfilm cinema studio in 1968-1969.
In 1969, Victor Semenovsky was admitted to the troupe of the Pushkin State Academy Drama Theater. He played a big number of bit part and major roles in modern and classic dramas in the first years of his work at the theater. Among those roles were Poet (“Fairness Is My Craft,” L. Zhukhovitsky, 1971), Egmont (“Before the Sunset,” H. Hauptmann, 1971), Kuzma Balyasnikov (“Fairy Tales of the Old Arbat,” A. Arbuzov, 1971), Young Gypsy Man (“Birds of Our Youth,” I. Drutse, 1972), Petya (“Alone, with No Angels,” L. Zhukhovitsky, 1973), warrant officer Nikita Bessmertny (“At Night, No Stars,” A. Schtein, 1973), Stepan (“Evening Light,” A. Arbuzov, 1975), Ivan (“Hurricane,” A. Sofronov, 1977) and others. The actor structured his even small and bit part roles delicately and daintily, managing to find psychological paradoxes inside every image. His characters were attributed with reflexivity; they were leading intensive internal dialogue with the world, asking themselves acute questions about modern realities. He managed to enlarge the scale of his personages in many soviet plays of current repertoire, filling the schematic characters with his own personality. A sensitive partner, he had no problems with organic joining with the Pushkin Theater ensemble. He played more than 70 roles, among which were Baron Klingen (“Fruits of Enlightment,” L. Tolstoy, 1978), Pakhomov (“A Forest Veranda,” I. Dvoretsky, 1979), Peterson (“Extreme Penalty,” V. Arro, 1980), Nick Ordway (“The Airport,” A. Heily, 1983), Guriy Krotkikh (“Vassa Zheleznova,” M.Gorky, 1985), Medvedenko (“The Seagull,” A. Chekhov, 1990), Daruga (“Alexander Nevsky,” V. Belov, 1990), Black Man (“Judes of the Piter-City,” the Strugatsky Brothers, 1991), Richard Varnes (“A Murder in Namur,” A. Christie, 1991), Poet (“Boris Godunov,” A. Pushkin, 1999), Padre (“Don Juan,” Moli?re, 2000), and others. At present, Victor Semenovsky is engaged in performances “Pygmallion,” by B. Shaw (poor passenger, 1998).
At present, Victor Semenovsky is engaged in the performances The Double ïî after Fyodor Dostoyevsky (the role of Official, 2005); The Ivans after N. Gogol’s The Story How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich and other N. Gogol’s writings (the role of another Ivan Ivanovich, 2007). He is engaged in the group scenes of W.Shakespeare's Hamlet (Director Valery Fokin, 2010). In Andrey Moguchy and K. Filippov’s performance “The Fortune” he plays the role of a member of the Orchestra of Forgotten Things’ Souls (Director Andrey Moguchy, 2011).
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