Biography

Dmitriy Mazurov (born 13 April 1981) is a Russian stage and screen actor. With a filmography of more than 100 television roles, he is best known to international audiences for his leading role in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur (2026) , which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and to Russian viewers for his extensive work in popular long-running series. Mazurov began training in the children’s "Studio of Plastic Arts" at the Globus Theatre and graduated from the Novosibirsk Theatre Institute in 2002. He then studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, completing the workshop in 2004. His screen debut came immediately after VGIK. Over the following two decades, he became a steady presence in Russian television, appearing in series such as Daddy’s Girls, Univer, Pyatnitsky, Karpov, Psychologists, Doctor Kotov, The Cipher, and The Policeman from Rublyovka, among many others. In 2026, Mazurov took the lead role of Gleb in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, a political thriller that received the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. The casting marked his first major role in a feature film after more than two hundred television parts, and it brought him a sharp increase in international attention. He has described the experience of working with Zvyagintsev as one of complete trust in the director’s method.