Artur Smolyaninov
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 27, 1983 (age 43)
- Birthplace
- Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Biography
Artur Smolyaninov (born 27 October 1983) is a Russian stage and screen actor, as well as a musician. He is best known for his leading role as Oleg Lutaev in Fyodor Bondarchuk’s war drama The 9th Company (2005), and for his work in international productions such as The Darkest Hour (2011) and Redirected (2014), and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur (2026), in which he played a bit part. Smolyaninov was born on 27 October 1983 in Moscow and grew up in a creative family: his mother was a painter and art teacher, and his father taught music. He was drawn into movies almost by chance when, at fourteen, he was cast in Valery Priemykhov’s Who If Not Us (1998), a performance that won him a best teenage actor prize at the Artek International Film Festival. At sixteen he entered the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (RATI-GITIS) in Leonid Kheifets’s workshop, graduating in 2004 with roughly a dozen screen credits already behind him. Wider recognition came with The 9th Company, in which he played the orphaned soldier known as Lyuty ("The Fierce"). The role became his signature and brought him the MTV-Russia movie award and the Triumph Prize in 2006. From 2006 to 2022 he was a member of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre company. His screen career expanded across Russian television and movies, including Heat (2006), 1612 (2007), Nirvana (2008), Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010), and the series The White Guard (2012). In 2022 Smolyaninov publicly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and left Russia, living first in Latvia and later obtaining Israeli citizenship. In January 2023 the Russian Ministry of Justice added him to its register of “foreign agents,” and in 2026 a Moscow court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in a penal colony. Since his exile he has continued to work in European productions, including a film shot in Estonia, and has hosted a Russian-language vodcast for Deutsche Welle.
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Filmography
Minotaur
Movie · as Denis
I Never Said Goodbye
Movie · as Alex
Escape Net
Movie
Extremist
Movie · as Investigator
Мирные огоньки - 2025
Movie
The Jew
Movie
Montevideo Unit
Movie
Together More Fun
Movie
Icon
Movie · as Father Vladimir
The Darkest Hour
TV · as Buian · 16 eps
Survivors
TV · as Schadrin · 8 eps
Kalashnikov AK-47
Movie · as Engineer captain Lyutyy
Wolf
TV · as Безрук · 14 eps
Found_ Alive
TV · 4 eps
Gangs of Rostov
TV · 16 eps
Piter by Kasta
Movie
All or Nothing
Movie · as Denis
Квартирник НТВ у Маргулиса. Новогодний выпуск. Незваные гости
Movie · as Self
Mounted Police
TV · as Sergey Volkov · 16 eps
Yana+Yanko
Movie · as Timofey
The Passenger
Movie · as Basov
To Be
Movie
Life Ahead
Movie · as Grisha Kiselyov
Квартирник НТВ у Маргулиса
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 3
Movie · as Серый волк (озвучка)
Two Four Legs
Movie
Breaking Loose
Movie
Redirected
Movie · as Doncius
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Movie · as Pyotr
Major Sokolov's Hetaerae
TV · 8 eps
A Habit of Breaking-Up
Movie · as Anton
Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 2
Movie · as Серый Волк (озвучка)
12 Months
Movie
Princess' War
Movie · as Кныш
Love with an Accent
Movie · as Sasha
Soulless
Movie · as Avdey
Fairy Tale. There Is
Movie · as Гордый Заяц
Unreal Love
Movie · as Timur
Samara
TV · as Олег Самарин · 26 eps
Five Brides
TV · as Vadim Dobromyslov · 4 eps
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Movie · as Yurka
The Darkest Hour
Movie · as Yuri
Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf
Movie · as Волк (озвучка)
Without Men
Movie
Moy paren - angel
Movie · as Serafim / Sergey
Five Brides
Movie · as Vadim Dobromyslov
A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries
Movie · as Inspector
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Movie · as Yurka
The Irony of Love
Movie
Six Degrees of Celebration
Movie · as Aleksey
I Am
Movie · as Hero/I
The Book of Masters
Movie · as Yangul
Будь со мной
Movie
Stories on Human Rights
Movie · as Husband
Nirvana
Movie · as Valera "The Dead"
The One Who Switches Off the Light
Movie
I'm Standing on the Edge
Movie
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
Movie · as Kostka
Mermaid
Movie
The Heat
Movie · as Artur Donskov
The Last Bottomhole
Movie · as Andryukha
9th Company
Movie · as Lyutyy
Naked Pioneer
Movie
Mars
Movie · as Grigori
Daddy
Movie · as Lyonchik
The Suit
Movie · as Geka
Сыщик без лицензии
TV · as Aleksey Korenev - sotrudnik NII · 2 eps
Тайный знак
TV · as Иван «Вано» Савин · 8 eps
Last Hero
TV · as self - gamer · 14 eps
The Red One: Triumph
Movie
Who, If Not Us
Movie