Konstantin Khabenskiy
Actor
Biography
Konstantin Khabensky (born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor best known in the West for starring in the films Night Watch and Day Watch as the lead character Anton Gorodetsky.
Khabensky was born and trained in St Petersburg, and now resides in Moscow. Khabensky was already a popular and well-established theatre and television/film actor prior to appearing in the -Watch films. However, their unprecedented success in both Russia and worldwide has made Khabensky the most popular actor in Russia, and one of the best-known Russian actors in the West.
Khabensky has been a stage actor in Satyricon Theatre (Moscow) and Lensovet Theatre in Saint Petersburg. In 1995-1996, he worked as presenter of regional TV in the department of music and information programs. Since 2003, Khabensky has been a member of Moscow Art Theatre stage cast, and a lead actor in Duck Hunt (Zilov), Mikhail Bulgakov's White Guard (Alexey Turbin) and Hamlet. Graduated from the Leningrad State Institute for Theatre, Music and Cinema in 1996 (course of V. Filshtinsky).
As Director
Filmography
World War Z
as Russian Fighter 2013
Wanted
as The Exterminator 2008
Unfriended
as Police Officer (uncredited) 2014
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Polyakov 2011
Black Sea
as Blackie 2014
Night Watch
as Anton Gorodetsky 2004
Major Grom: Plague Doctor
as Veniamin Rubenstein 2021
Day Watch
as Anton Gorodetsky 2006
The Spacewalker
as Pavel Belyaev 2017
Sobibor
as Alexander Pechersky 2018
Fire
as Aleksey Pavlovich Sokolov 2020
Admiral
as Alexander Kolchak 2008
Fantastic Return to Oz
as Urfin Jus (voice) 2019
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
as Viktor Sluzhkin 2013
Six Degrees of Celebration
as narrator 2010
Lucky Trouble
as Kolotilov 2011
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
as Kostya Lukashin 2007