Maksim Stoyanov

Theater and film actor. Born in 1987. In 2009, he entered the Moscow Art Theatre School (course of K.A. Raikin). For the role of Stanley Kowalski in the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" (2012, Teatralny Tsentr "Na Strastnom", directed by Aleksey Guskov), he received the "Golden Leaf" award. After graduating from the Moscow Art Theatre School in 2013, he was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theatre named after Chekhov, where he served for four years. In the same year, he played his first leading role in cinema: Shkarupa in Natalia Meshchaninova's film "Kombinat "Nadezhda"", which premiered at the IFF in Rotterdam. Maksim Stoyanov's role in Kirill Mikhanovsky's film "Give Me Liberty" (2019, premiered in the Cannes "Directors' Fortnight", screening at the Sundance Film Festival) was highly appreciated by domestic and foreign critics. In total, he has played about seventy film roles. For the series "Black Sun" (2023), he received the award for best actor at the "Pilot" festival, and for Tina Barkalaya's film "Hoffmann's Fairy Tales" – the award for best male role at the "Literature and Cinema" festival in Gatchina.