By Eliza Popova
After school, Gorbunov did not immediately enter the Karpenko-Kary theater institute, because he was not a member of the Komsomol. At that time, the young man worked in the theater named after Lesya Ukrainka as an editing assistant and in a costume shop. He graduated from Karpenko-Kary in 1984. The birthday boy was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine in 1991 and People's Artist of Ukraine in 2016. Oleksiy Gorbunov has a long acting career - more than 40 years, more than 170 films.
In particular, he is known for the tapes "Countess de Monsoro", "Courts", "Kamenskaya", "Cargo without marking", etc. Until 2014, Gorbunov actively worked in Russian cinema. In December 2014, the actor refused to cooperate with the Russians and declared that he would not work in the Russian Federation while the war continued. In 2023, the birthday boy said: "I haven't been in Russia for 9 years.
" Currently, the actor lives and works mainly in Ukraine, performs on the radio, is engaged in music, and gives stand-up performances. Moreover, Oleksiy Serhiyevich is known as a singer - the frontman of the band "Pilot's Sadness". Currently, he lives in Kyiv and Odesa, periodically travels abroad for his creative evenings or filming. According to the actor, his pension is only 3,400 hryvnias. "I've been acting in movies for 43 years, that's 175 or 177 movies. It's hard to calculate the exact number.
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