Most Famous Russian Actors

Russia has produced 234 notable actors throughout history, led by Andrei Tarkovsky. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.

Top Ranked

  1. Andrei Tarkovsky — Russian Film (1932–1986) , ranked #1036
  2. Sergei Eisenstein — Russian Film (1898–1948) , ranked #1063
  3. Sergei Bondarchuk — Russian Actor (1920–1994) , ranked #7169
  4. Philipp Kirkorov — Russian Actor (Born 1967) , ranked #7358
  5. Vasily Aksyonov — Russian Screenwriter (1932–2009) , ranked #7515
  6. Vsevolod Meyerhold — Russian Actor (1874–1940) , ranked #8111
  7. Andrey Zvyagintsev — Russian Film (Born 1964) , ranked #8269
  8. Alla Nazimova — Russian Film (1879–1945) , ranked #8742
  9. Eldar Ryazanov — Russian Film (1927–2015) , ranked #10331
  10. Vyacheslav Tikhonov — Russian Actor (1928–2009) , ranked #10440
  11. Alexander Dovzhenko — Russian Film (1894–1956) , ranked #11171
  12. Aleksei Balabanov — Russian Film (1959–2013) , ranked #11537
  13. Leonid Gaidai — Russian Film (1923–1993) , ranked #12441
  14. Oleg Yankovsky — Russian Actor (1944–2009) , ranked #12883
  15. Vladimir Mashkov — Russian Actor (Born 1963) , ranked #13074
  16. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan — Russian Actor (1935–2020) , ranked #13965
  17. Aleksey Batalov — Russian Actor (1928–2017) , ranked #14367
  18. Fazil Iskander — Russian Screenwriter (1929–2016) , ranked #14500
  19. Lyubov Orlova — Russian Actor (1902–1975) , ranked #14579
  20. Stanislav Govorukhin — Russian Film (1936–2018) , ranked #15115