Fedor Strygun – 85. Biography and archival photos of the legendary actor.

On November 1, Fedor Strygun celebrates his birthday - a director, actor, People's Artist of Ukraine, head of the Lviv interregional branch of the National Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine. Today he turns 85 years old. "Glavcom" recalls the creative path of the artist and the main events from his biography.

What is known about the actor

Fedor Strygun was born on November 1, 1939, in Cherkasy region. He studied at the acting faculty of the Kiev Institute of Theater Arts named after I. Karpenko-Kary (workshop of V. Nelli). After graduation, he worked at the Zaporizhia Drama Theater.

From 1965 to 2019, he was an actor at the Lviv Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Maria Zankovetska. From 1987 to 2019, he was the artistic director, chief director of the Lviv Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Maria Zankovetska.

Strygun prepared two graduating classes of actors at the Lviv Conservatory named after Mykola Lysenko. Besides working in theater and cinema, he teaches at the acting department of the philological faculty of Lviv National University.

Laureate of the National Prize named after Taras Shevchenko, the award named after Ivan Kotlyarevsky, and the award named after Mykola Sadovsky.

Creative legacy

Among the plays he produced are "Knavemaster", "Vanity", "Worldly Sea" by I. K. Karpenko-Kary, "Haydamaky" by Shevchenko, "Marusya Churay" by Lina Kostenko, "The People's Malachiy" and "Maklena Grasa" by Mykola Kulish, "Mazepa" (trilogy) by Lepky, "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, and others.

Fedor Strygun is credited with the discovery and stage realization of the creativity of the undeservedly forgotten composer Yaroslav Barnych and his operettas "Sharika" and "Hutsulka Ksenya".

Over two hundred roles in theater: Uldis in "Blow, Little Wind" by Rainis, Don Juan in "The Stone Host", Orestes in "The Blue Rose" by Lesia Ukrainka, from Shakespeare - Edgar in "King Lear", Richard III, famous hetmans Khmelnytsky, Polubotok, Mazepa, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Malachiy Stakanchyk in "The People's Malachiy", Paratov in "Without a Dowry" by O. Ostrovsky, Orgon in "Tartuffe" by J. B. Moliere, the Elective in "Natalka Poltavka" by I. Kotlyarevsky, Ivan in "Worldly Sea" by I. Karpenko-Kary.

Over 40 years of creative activity, he has played more than a hundred roles. Films featuring him include: "The Lost Letter", "And the Memory Responds in Sounds...", "Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube", "Dudariki", "Stone Soul" and others - brought him fame as a film actor.

Besides this, he appeared in films: "Annychka", "When a Person Smiled", "Geese-Swans Fly", "Memory of the Earth", "Babylon XX", "Extraordinary Mission Train", "Knavemaster", "Two Days in December", "Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn", "Vortex", "Grooms", "Fables about Ivan", "Stone Soul", "Pavlo Polubotok", "For the Home Hearth", "Oath", "Jesus, Son of the Living God", "Metropolitan Andrey", "Guide".

Personal life

Wife Lytvynenko Taisiia Yosypivna - People's Artist of Ukraine, until 2019 - actress of the Lviv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Maria Zankovetska.

Her career in cinema began with the role of the beautiful Halia in the film "Nazar Stodolia", adaptation of the play by Taras Shevchenko (1955). Subsequently, the actress played the dark-mouthed scandalous maid Khymka in the film "For Two Hares" (1961), which is a hit role.

The couple has a son Nazar - a Ukrainian theater and film actor, narrator, and dubbing actor, director, and producer of the project "Telnyuk: Sisters" (Telnyuk Sisters).

Let's recall, yesterday, October 31, was the birthday of Ukrainian theater, film, and dubbing actress Inna Kapinos. She turned 60 years old. Kapinos is an Honored and People's Artist of Ukraine.

Also, on October 2, the People's Artist of Ukraine, singer, and showman Andriy Danylko, known in Ukraine and worldwide under the pseudonym Verka Serdyuchka, celebrated his birthday. He turned 51 years old.