Grigoriy Dobrygin

Born

1986-02-17

Birthplace

Rybachiy, Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR (now Kamchatskiy kray, Russia)

Biography

Grigoriy Eduardovich Dobrygin (Russian: Григо́рий Эдуа́рдович Добры́гин; born February 17, 1986) is a Russian film and theatre actor, director and producer. He studied at a school in Zelenograd, Moscow Oblast. He graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in the Bolshoi Theatre. In 2010, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.  His first movies were Black Lightning (2009) and How I Ended This Summer (2010), which got him worldwide recognition. His first English-language movie was A Most Wanted Man (2014), in which he co-starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams.