Viktor Verzhbitsky
Viktor Alexandrovich Verzhbitsky () born 21 September 1959, in Tashkent, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan) is an Uzbekistani-Russian film and stage actor. He is well known for playing mobsters, businessmen, and villains and he is well known for playing the role of Zavulon in the 2004 film Night Watch and its 2006 sequel Day Watch. He has been relatively active as an actor on both the small screen and large screen since 1994 when he starred in Timur Bekmambetov's Peshavar Waltz. He has become one of Russia's best known actors. Biography Early life and education Viktor Alexandrovich Verzhbitsky was born on 21 September 1959 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. His aristocratic surname is due to his great-grandfather - a Krakow Pole. Viktor spent his childhood behind the scenes - his grandmother worked in the theater as a dresser. In 1983 he graduated from the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute named after A.N. Ostrovsky. Theatre In 1983-1995 he played at the Tashkent Academic Drama Theater named after Gorky. In the theater, he played the role of Avrosimov in the Throat of Freedom by Bulat Okudzhava, Treplev in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Scipio in Caligula by Albert Camus, Obolyaninov in Zoykin's Apartment by