Actor

Oleh Prymohenov

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Movies: 41Series: 10

TMDB ID: 1045993

IMDb ID: nm3558648

Known for: Acting

Born: January 16, 1955

Age: 71

Place of birth: Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1992 - 2023

Years active: 32

Average TMDB rating: 7.51

Also known as

Oleg Primagenov • Oleh Primohenov • Oleg Primogenov

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Biography

Oleg Primogenov is a Soviet and Ukrainian film and theater actor. Born in the Ukrainian SSR, in the city of Lvov. The future actor spent part of his childhood with his family in the Belarusian city of Gomel. Returning to the Ukrainian SSR, Primogenov graduated from high school, but for a long time he could not decide on his future profession. For some time he worked in the circus, changed several working specialties. After that he became a student of KNUTKiT named after Ivan Karpenko-Karyy. After graduating from the university, he got a job in the troupe of the Ivano-Frankovsk Theater, on the stage of which the first serious roles of Oleg Primogenov were played. He made his film debut in 1989, playing a small role in the Soviet film Inoy (1989). He began to actively act in films already in the 1990s, appearing in such projects as Doloy styd! (1994), Operatsyya 'Kontrakt' (1996), Dve luny, tri solntsa (1998). He also often appears in TV series. During his career, the actor has played more than a hundred film roles. He continues to actively act in film, in parallel he collaborates with the Kiev theater 'Koleso'.