Viktor Zhdanov

Viktor Petrovych Zhdanov (Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Петро́вич Жда́нов; born March 3, 1968) is a Ukrainian theater, film and television actor. He is a Merited Artist of Ukraine. Viktor Petrovych Zhdanov was born on March 3, 1968 in the village of Kyselivka in Kherson Oblast. He graduated from the Kherson Vocational College of Culture and Arts in 1986. From 1986 to 1988, he was an actor of the Kherson Puppet Theater. From 1988 to 1997, he was part of the Regional Academic Musical-Dramatic Theatre Mykola Kulish. From 1997 to 1998, he was part of the Maikop Russian Drama Theater in Adygea. In 2000, he joined the Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theatre. He and his family moved to Kyiv after the occupation of Donetsk in 2014. That same year, he began working for the Kyiv Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy on the left bank of Dnieper. He began acting in films after arriving in Kyiv. Since 2022, he works at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.