Yevgeny Tkachuk

• Name — Evgeniy Tkachuk • Birth Name — Evgeniy Valeryevich Tkachuk • Born — 23 May 1984 • Birthplace — Ashgabat, TuSSR, USSR (now Turkmenistan) • Citizenship — Russian • Occupation — * Actor • film director • screenwriter • producer • singer • Years Active — 1995–present • Awards — Golden Eagle Award (2024)

Evgeniy or (also spelled Evgeny or Yevgeny) Valeryevich Tkachuk was born on July 23, 1984, in Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union. His father, Valery Tkachuk, was an actor and director at the Syzran Drama Theatre. In 1994, when Evgeniy was 10 years old, his family moved to Syzran, Samara Oblast, where he worked at the local drama theatre while attending school. In 2002, he entered the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), studying acting under Oleg Kudryashov. In 2007 he received the Mikhail Tsaryov Prize from the Union of Theatre Workers of Russia for professional achievement.

Tkachuk worked at the Moscow Theatre for Young Audiences and the State Theatre of Nations. He made his film debut in 2007 in Alexandra directed by Alexander Sokurov. His breakthrough came in 2011 with the title role in the television series The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik. In 2013 he won the Special Jury Prize for Best Actor at the Window to Europe Film Festival for Winter Journey. Film critic Andrei Plakhov called the performance a "major discovery". In 2015 he starred as Grigory Melekhov in the television adaptation of And Quiet Flows the Don, directed by Sergei Ursulyak.

In December 2016 Tkachuk founded the equestrian drama theatre VelesO in Lepsari village, Leningrad Oblast, combining dramatic performance with live horses. The theatre's production Sacred Flight of Flowers premiered in 2019 and later received a special jury prize from the St. Petersburg theatre award Breakthrough.

On 15 September 2024 Tkachuk was detained at Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, after hashish was found in his luggage. On 3 December 2024, the Moskovsky District Court of Saint Petersburg sentenced him to 5 years and 6 months suspended imprisonment with a three-year probation period and a fine of 100,000 rubles.

Tkachuk has three daughters from two marriages.

• Moscow Saga (2004–2014) • Alexandra (2007) • I Am (2009) • The Edge (2010) • The Alien Girl (2010) • The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (2011) • Winter Journey (2013) • Gagarin: First in Space (2013) • Demons (2014) • And Quiet Flows the Don (2015) • How Vitka Chesnok Drove Lyokha Shtyr to the House for Disabled (2017) • The Bottomless Bag (2017) • The Road to Calvary (2017) • A Rough Draft (2018) • Godunov (2018–2019) • Van Goghs (2018) • A Rough Draft (2018) • A Frenchman (2019) • Dead Mountain (2020) • Peace! Love! Chewing Gum! (2020–2023) • Zemun (2021) • Execution (2021) • Parents of the Strict Regime (2022) • Breathe Easy (2022) • A Fairy Tale for the Old (2022) • Intensive Care (2022) • Pravednik (The Righteous; 2023) • Lord of the Wind (2023) • Rabies (2023) • Khroniki russkoy revolyutsii (2025) • Litvyak (2026)