Konstantin Khabensky / Biography

Konstantin Yuryevich Khabensky was born on January 11, 1972, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). His father, Yuri Khabensky, and his mother, Tatiana Gennadievna (nee Nikulina), were engineers-hydrologists. Young Konstantin Khabensky studied electronics at the Leningrad Technical School of Aviation Electronics and Automatics. He dropped out on the third year after deciding that electronics was not for him.He played guitar on the Nevsky Prospect as a street musician, then was a stage technician at the Theatre-Studio "Subbota" in Leningrad. From 1990-1995 Khabensky studied acting at the St. Peterburg Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. There his classmates were Mikhail Porechenkov, Andrei Zibrov, and Mikhail Trukhin. In 1995, Khabensky graduated from the class of Veniamin Filshtinsky, as an actor. He had a five-month stint at the Raikin's Theatre of Satire in Moscow, but after having no serious roles there, he returned to St. Petersburg.In 1994 Khabensky made his film debut in Na kogo Bog poschlet (1994). He shot to fame in Russia after co-starring in "Uboynaya sila" (2000), a popular series about crime in St. Petersburg, Russia. Khabensky ascended to international fame with the leading role as Anton in the popular Russian vampire franchise, Nochnoy dozor (2004), and the second installment, Dnevnoy dozor (2006), by director Timur Bekmambetov and based on eponymous books by Sergei Lukyanenko.Since 1996 Khabensky has been a permanent member of the troupe at the St. Petersburg Theatre of Lensovet. There he has been working together with his former acting classmates Mikhail Porechenkov, Mikhail Trukhin and Andrei Zibrov under director Yuri Butusov. In 2003 Khabensky and Porechenkov were invited by Oleg Tabakov to play on stage of Moscow Art Theatre. There Khabensky has been playing the leading role in "Dni turbinykh", a classic play by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. He also has been playing the role of Claudius in the Shakespeare's "Hamlet", directed by his friend Yuri Butusov.Konstantin Khabensky together with his long time stage partner Mikhail Porechenkov are currently in rehearsal as two female leads in a stage adaptation of 'Some like it hot' at the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). Khabensky also continues acting on stage at the St. Petersburg Theatre of Lensovet in the leading role in a contemporary play 'V ozhidanii Godo', and as Kaligula in the eponymous play by Albert Camus.Konstantin Khabensky has been married to actress and radio-journalist Anastasiya Khabenskaya. He has homes in both Russian capitals: Moscow and St. Petersburg.