The popular Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin

The popular Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin was born on July 22, 1966 in the Tula region. The director, actor, playwright, screenwriter, writer and journalist. A clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, at his own request, is temporarily relieved of his ministry. At the moment he works at the company "Euroset" creative director.

The parents of the actor had no relation to the creative professions, the father - also Ivan Ivanovich - the military doctor, fought. Mother - Alevtina Ivanovna - worked as an economist. At school, Ivan did not stand out against the background of his peers. Studied exactly. After graduation, I firmly decided for myself that he needed to go to VGIK. Studies were interrupted by military service in the missile forces. This life period will later be reflected in the work of Okhlobystin. After returning to the Institute, he was noted for his active social position, eccentricity, sharp mind and was popular both among fellow students and among the teaching staff. In 1992 he graduated from VGIK with a degree in directing.

In the film "Foot" Ivan Okhlobystin made his debut in cinema and immediately was awarded with a prize at the festival "Youth-91" for the best role. The first author's script for the controversial film "Freak" was nominated for the "Green Apple, Gold Leaf" award. A debut full-length work Okhlobystin as a director was called "Arbitrator" and in the category "Films for the elect" on "Kinotavr".

The theatrical stage was also not deprived of the attention of Okhlobystin. In February 1996, the premiere of the play "The Villain or the Cry of the Dolphin" was staged at the Moscow Art Theater. The play was written by Ivan Okhlobystin.

In addition to the main classes, the circle of enthusiasms of Ivan Ivanovich is very extensive. He is the owner of a small collection of guns, an avid angler and hunter, and also is a member of the International Association of Aikido Kyoku Rammay. Okhlobystin is not indifferent to jewelry and chess, he has a rank. As for political convictions - Okhlobystin monarchist, in his time even was in the party "Cedar", the main purpose of which was the revival of the Russian monarchy.

At the moment of greatest popularity Ivan met his future wife - actress Oksana Arbuzova. Officially, they consolidated their union in 1995. Today, the couple are brought up by six children - two boys (Basil and Savva) and four girls (Anfisa, Evdokia, Varvara and John).

If you summarize the results of the official recognition of Okhlobystin, the results will be as follows: 9 prizes for the best acting role 17 awards as the best director, and 21 awards as the author of the best script. One of the last, at the moment, work in the cinema: films "DMB" (in the wake of memories of the army service), "Down House" (modern version of the novel "Idiot") and "Garbage". Seen under the pseudonyms: Leopold Luxurious and Ivan Alien.

The fact that the Russian actor - an adherent of Orthodoxy, was officially known when he became the host of the "Canon" on television in 1998. And already in 2001 Ivan Ivanovich was ordained a cleric by the Tashkent Archbishop Vladimir. It happened in the Tashkent Diocese.

At the end of 2001, Okhlobystin came to the capital to present his new short film about Prince Daniil. He reflected not only as an independent picture, but as part of a whole cycle called "Lives of the Saints", which should contain, according to the author's plans, 477 series. And in the same year, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Okhlobystin with the award "For Merits to the Fatherland" - nominal gold watches.

Since it was almost impossible to combine service with God and acting, Ivan temporarily left his main profession. But all the time he remained a writer. In 2008, Okhlobystin, taking into account the need for more earnings, returned to the acting profession.

Until 2005, a famous actor (Father John) was serving in Zayaitskiy, in the Church of St. Nicholas, after 2005 - on the Sophia Embankment, in the Sophia Temple of the Wisdom of God, where the color of the Moscow intelligentsia is.

Is the host of the broadcast "Flock" on the radio station Russian news service, and is the author of the column in the community "Snob"

The role of a great historical figure - Grigory Rasputin - Ivan Okhlobystin sang in the film "The Conspiracy", directed by Stanislav Libin.

In the life of the actor again began an active filming period. Immediately several films in which Ivan played, were published. These are the films: "Bullet Fool", the global historical canvas "The King"

According to Ivan Ivanovich's script, in 2007 the sensational film "Paragraph 78" was released, the script of which was dated back to 1995.

In November 2009, the press reported that Father John himself had asked Patriarch Kirill to free himself from the service, the cause of which were "internal contradictions."

Already in February of the following year, Patriarch Kirill fulfilled Ivan Okhlobystin's request and removed him from performing the priestly service, while wearing the priest's cross and priestly clothes is forbidden. And the Patriarch did not forget to note that in the event that Father John, in the world of Ivan Okhlobystin, decides, will take "a definitive and unequivocal choice in favor of pastoral ministry," then in this case, this suspension from the ministry can be canceled.

At the end of the same year, Okhlobystin said in an interview with the Moscow Komsomolets that within the next two years he would decide to return to the ministry.

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