Aleksei Zharkov

Biography

Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor born on March 27, 1948, in Moscow. He rose to prominence with roles in Mark Donskoy's Hello, Children! (1962), where he played a lead role as a young Soviet teenager, and the military film Such a Big Boy (1966). A People's Artist of Russia since 1994, Zharkov is also known for his portrayal of an old chief physician in the film Ward No. 6 (2009) at age 61.