- Born
- Birth nameVladimir Lvovich Mashkov
- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov was born in Tula, to Natalia, a puppet theatre director, and Lev Mashkov, an actor. He worked for Oleg Tabakov's theatre where he performed in Alexander Galich's "My Big Land", Neil Simon's "Biloxy Blues", Nickolai Gogol's "The Inspector General", Jean-Batiste Moliere's "Don Juan", and other plays. As a director, he staged "A Star Hour By Local Time", "Passions For Bumbarash", "The Death-Defying Act" and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera".
- IMDb mini biography by: Art-Agency by Elena Chukhrai <ntvprofit@glasnet.ru>
- SpousesElena Shevchenko (divorced, 1 child)Oksana Shelest (divorced)Kseniya Terenteva (divorced)
- Children
- Niko Bellic, the lead character of Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) is based on Vladimir Mashkov's character from Behind Enemy Lines (2001). In fact, Mashkov was offered the chance to voice the character, but turned it down because he didn't take it seriously at the time.
- Moscow, Russia, the Theatre of Oleg Tabakov ("Tabakerka") - an actor and a stage director appointed the Oleg Tabakov's successor at the main stage director post.
- The father, with Elena Shevchenko, of Masha Mashkova
- In 2024, a Ukrainian court sentenced Mashkov in absentia to ten years in prison for war propaganda and for encouraging the violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Authorities also confiscated his apartment in Odesa.
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