Grigoriy Siyatvinda

Grigoriy Siyatvinda was born on April 26, 1970, in Tyumen, Russia. He is a highly versatile Russian stage and film actor of mixed Zambian and Russian heritage who has become one of the most recognizable faces in Russian contemporary media. After spending part of his childhood in Zambia, he returned to Russia and later graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, eventually becoming a staple of the Satirikon Theatre in Moscow. He gained widespread acclaim for his roles in the cult classic Dead Man’s Bluff (2005) and the action film Paragraph 78 (2007), but achieved massive mainstream popularity as the eccentric hotel manager Mikhail Jekovich in the hit sitcoms Kitchen (Kukhnya) and Hotel Eleon.