DENIS SHVEDOV was born November 24, 1981. He graduated from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School in 2006 and began his acting career in the Russian Academic Youth Theater, based in Moscow. Appearances in various TV series led to his film debut in the romantic comedy “A Good Friend for All” (2008). Shvedov first collaborated with director Yury Bykov in 2010 when he played the lead in Bykov’s “Live!”. Amongst other awards, the film received the Special Jury Prize at the Taipei IFF and the Grand Prix at KinoRurik, the Swedish festival of Russian cinema where Shvedov received the Best Actor award. In 2013, he once again worked with Bykov, playing the eponymous lead in “The Major”. The film premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week, received awards at numerous international film festivals and won Shvedov the Best Actor award at the Pacific Meridian International Film Festival.

Filmography

• Reservation
• The Secret City — Секира
• Чудо — Шиков
• 2025Field of Miracles
• 2025Final — Vladimir Alekno
• Tango — Иван
• 2025Бабки
• 2025ФакАп
• Red 5 — Бекешев
• 2024Тинатин — Tina’s dad
• Alice's Dreams
• 2023I Take a Step
• 2023Summer. Zero — Виталий Михайлович
• Werewolf — Лазарев
• 2022Addicted. Happy End — Ilya Rusakov
• Offline — Никонов
• Pushkin's Fairy Tales. For Adults — Fish's husband, Tsar, father-in-law
• Dr. Preobrazhensky — Лев Преображенский
• Fantom — Стас Хабаров
• Ivanko — Makar
• Wolf — Александр Волк
• 2019Rake — Petr Igorevich
• 2019Void
• Addicted — Илья Русаков
• 2018New Feelings — Gleb
• 2018The Factory — Greyhair
• 2017Dance to Death — Серый
• 2017Life Ahead — Igor
• Raid — Павел Карпенко
• 2017The Ankle
• Что и требовалось доказать
• 2016Elusive: Bangkok
• 2016Moscow, I Endure You — Viktor Tikhonovich
• Run!
• 2015Decent People
• 2015Eternal Cold
• Infidelities — Никита
• 2015Metamorphosis — Vladimir
• Method — Igor Boyko
• 2015The Watchers: Beginning — Sergey Polyansky
• Silver Spoon — Danila Korolev
• 2014Star
• 2014The Adventurers — Andrey
• 2013The Major — Sergey Sobolev
• Станица
• Cash Collectors — Сергей Хромов
• 2011What Men Still Talk About
• 2010To Live — Andrey
• 2009Ten Minutes Past Twelve
• Однажды будет любовь — Антон
• 2008A Good Friend for Everyone
• 2008Alexander: The Neva Battle
• 2007The Sovereign's Servant
• Moya Afrika

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2024Silver Spoon 10 Years — self
• Last Hero — self - gamer