Mamuka Patarava

Мамука Патарава

Actor

Biography

Russian theatre and film actor. Born on May 26, 1997, in Baikalsk, Irkutsk Region. As a child, he displayed artistic abilities, and his older sister took him to a theatre studio, where he landed the role of the Junior in a production of "Karlsson-on-the-Roof".

After school, he enrolled in the East Siberian State Academy of Culture in Ulan-Ude. In 2023, he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (workshop of Alla Dubrovskaya). In his graduation performance, Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera", he played the leading role of Macheath.

Immediately after graduation, he was accepted into the troupe of the Vladimir Mayakovsky Moscow Academic Theatre. His roles there include Patient Gromov in Anton Chekhov's "Ward No. 6", Christian in "Another Fairy Tale" based on works by Evgeny Schwartz, Rodion Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment" after Dostoevsky, Eugene Onegin in a production of Pushkin's novel, and Schimmel (Mephistopheles) in Ivan Turgenev's "Faust".

He has also collaborated with other theatres: at the Theatre of Nations, he played Léon Dupuis in "Bovary" after Gustave Flaubert; at the Vakhtangov Theatre, he played Hans in a stage adaptation of Heinrich Böll's "The Clown" and Dies in Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus".

He began acting in films in 2022. David in Egor Salnikov's comedy "How I Met Her Mother" (2024) was his first leading role.

Performances