Danila Kozlovsky

Danila Kozlovsky was born in 1985 in Moscow. His mother was a stage actress and his father a professor at the State University. He was the middle son in a family of three boys. After going through a number of music, dance and ballet schools, Kozlovsky enrolled at the Cadet Military Academy to improve his bad behavior. Six years later, he came out a disciplined youth knowing his next step, so he marched into Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy to study acting and directing, supervised by Lev Dodin.

His stage debut as Edgar in "King Lear" (2006) brought his first theatre award, the Best Debut nomination. In the same year, he also received his first movie award for Best Male Actor in "Garpastum," a Venice Film Festival Official Selection in 2006. He has since appeared in more than twenty feature films and seven plays.

His career is a series of awards and nominations. In 2012 he received a National Golden Eagle Award for "Dukhless" and the nomination for Best Cinema Actor. As the number one leading actor in Russia for the past four years, he expands his audience internationally.

In 2013 he appeared in an advertisement for Chanel Coco Mademoiselle alongside Keira Knightley, directed by the nominated Joe Wright. "The Vampire Academy" (2014), was his first American movie, where he played Dimitri Belikov. In 2015 he received the Stanislavsky Award, which is the highest theater award in Russia and can only be given once in a lifetime. Kozlovsky got it at age 29.

In 2016, the movie "Status: Single" premiered in Moscow, where Kozlovsky both played the lead and was a producer of the picture. His interests go beyond film and theater. Kozlovsky plays the saxophone and piano and he sings.

In 2015, he premiered in the Bolshoi Theater with the musical show "Big Dream of an Ordinary Man," where he performed the songs of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and other gentlemen from the Rat Pack.

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