Danila Valerevich Kozlovsky (Данила Козловский) was born on May 3, 1985 in Moscow, Russia. He played Dimitri Belikov in the 2014 film Vampire Academy.
Biography[]
From a very young age, he was into music, dancing, and playing football (soccer) with his two brothers, Egor and Ivan. Danila began first grade in a public school but was expelled in the first year for bad behavior. He spent the next six years bouncing between schools for the same reason before having to finish his education in a special navy school preparing students for the Military Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affair, where his brothers also went to school. He spent his free time learning karate, playing football, taking piano lessons, and attending a theater studio.
As a nine-year-old, Danila scored his first role in a television series, Simple Truths, as Denis.
Two years later, in 1996, he was accepted into Kronshtadt Sea Military School, where he attended until 2002, when he graduated. That year, Danila went to the Saint-Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, enrolling in the acting/directing course taught by Lev Dodin.
During his fourth year there, 2006, he scored a role as Edgar in King Lear, a stage production. This role earned him a special prize from the Expert Council of the Golden Sofit (the top-rated Saint-Petersburg theater award) for Best Debut.
In 2005, he starred in Garpastum as Nikolai, earning him the Russian Cinema Critics Guild White Elephant Award for the best leading part.
Two years later, he came back with Zaveshchanie Lenina, a TV mini-series, playing Sergey.
The next year, 2008, he starred as Borman in the film We Are The Future, followed by Jolly Fellows, acting as Lyusya.
In 2010, he landed three roles: Odinochka as Andrey Gromov; Maskva, ya lyublyn tebya!; and then Antalya. The next year was full as well as he played: Grand-duc Dimitriy in Raspountine, Aleksey Kaverin in Five Brides, and Mitya in The Target.
In 2012, he took on a role in Dukhless, which earned him the The National Zolotoy Orel Award and a nomination for Best Cinema Actor. He also starred in Legend No. 17 as Valery Kharlamov.
As for 2014, he played Dimitri Belikov from Best Selling Author Richelle Mead's series "Vampire Academy," with Zoey Deutch as Rose, a possible partner for Dimitri, and Lucy Fry as Lissa, Rose's best friend.
Filmography[]
Actor[]
Movie(s)[]
- "Garpastum" (2005) as Nikolay
- "Na Verkhney Maslovke" (2005)
- "Prestuplenie i pogoda" (2007) as Viktor
- "Veselchaki" (2009) as Lyusya
- "Antalya" (2010)
- "Moska, ya lyublyu tebya!" (2010)
- "Gamlet XXI vek" (2010) as Laertes
- "Target" (2011) as Mitya
- "Pyat nevest" (2011) as Aleksey Kaverin
- "Rasputin" (2011) as Grand-duc Dimitriy
- "The Spy" (2012) as Dorin
- "Soulless" (2012) as Maks
- "Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg" (2012) as Ari Brilskiy (1883)
- "Legend No. 17" (2013) as Kharlamov
- "Privychka rasstavatsya" (2013) as Vadim
- "Vampire Academy" (2014) as Dimitri Belikov
- "Dubrovskiy" (2014) as Dubrovskiy
- "Soulless 2" (2015) as Maks
- "Hardcore Henry" (2015) as Akan
- "Status: Svoboden" (2016) as Nikita
- "Pyatnitsa" (2016) as Bondar
- "Flight Crew" (2016) as Aleksey Gushchin
- "Viking" (2016) as Knyaz Vladimir
- "Mathilde" (2017) as Vorontsov
- "Dovlatov" (2018) as David
- "Trener" (2018) as Yuriy Stoleshnikov
- "In the Hood" (2018) as Kisa
- "Vishneviy sad" (2019) as Lopakhin
- "Chernobyl: Abyss" (2021) as Firefighter Alexey Karpushin
- "Molodoy chelovek" (2022) as Kolya Kovpinets
- "Proisshestviye v strane Multi-Pulti" (2022) as Balbes
Short(s)[]
- "On the Other Side of the Vineyard" (2021) as Mark
- "Pokupai" (2021) as Vitya
TV Mini-Series[]
- "Zaveshchanie Lenina" (2007) as Sergey Shamalov / Brat Varlama (11 episodes)
- "We Are from the Future" (2008) aas Borman (4 episodes)
- "A.D." (2009) as Daniil Ageev (4 episodes)
- "Vsyo nachalos v Kharbine" (2013) as Boris Eybozhenko (8 episodes)
- "Dubrovskiy" (2014) as Dubrovskiy (5 episodes)
- "Treason" (2022) as Lord Anton Melnikov (3 episodes)
TV Movie(s)[]
- "Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle" (2004) as Frantz (juene)
- "Odinochka" (2010) as Andrey Gromov
- "Shkeher-18" (2011) as Andrey Egorov
TV Series[]
- "Simple Truth" (1999) as Denis (8 episodes)
- "Streets of Broken Lights" (2004) as Popov (1 episode)
- "Alka" (2006) as Lyonya Astakhov (4 episodes)
- "Pokushenie" (2010) as Evgeniy Kostin (8 episodes)
- "McMafia" (2018) as Grigory Mishin (1 episode)
- "Vikings" (2019 - 2020) as Oleg of Novgorod / Prince Oleg the Prophet (15 episodes)
- "Karamora" (2022) as Karamora (8 episodes)
- "Lyusya" (2022) as Senya (8 episodes)
- "Nodvoye" (2022) as Konstantin (9 episodes)
- "13 Klinicheskaya" (2022) as Kirill (8 episodes)
Director[]
Movie(s)[]
- "Trener" (2018) - Director
- "Chernobyl: Abyss" (2021) - Director
Short(s)[]
- "Pokupai" (2021) - Director
TV Series[]
- "Karamora" (2022) - Director (8 episodes)
Producer[]
Movie(s)[]
- "Status: Svoboden" (2016) - Producer
- "Trener" (2018) - Producer
- "In the Hood" (2018) - Producer
- "Chernobyl: Abyss" (2021) - Producer
TV Series[]
- "Karamora" (2022) - Producer (8 episodes)
Writer[]
Movie(s)[]
- "Trener" (2018) - Writer
Trivia[]
- He plays the saxophone and piano.
- Toured several European countries and Australia with the Maly Drama Theatre.
- He doesn't think his time in the military schools was wasted.
- His older brother is Egor, and his younger brother is Ivan.
- He grew his hair long for his role as Dimitri.
- He was married to actress Urszula Magdalena Malka in 2008, but they divorced in 2011.
- He has acted twice with the name Dimitri and Aleksey in his films.
- He starred in Legend No. 17 as Valery Kharlamov, which is one of President Vladimir Putin's favorite movies, making him one of the top-billed stars in Russia.[1]
Awards Won[]
- Best Actor - "Garpastum" (2005) at the 2005 Russian Guild of Film Critics
- Best Actor - "Soulless" (2012) at the 2013 Golden Eagle Awards, Russia
- Best International Actor - "Legend No. 17" (2013) at the 2013 Golden Rooster Awards
- Best Russian Actor of the Year - at the 2014 Russian National Movie Awards
- Best Russian Hero of the Year - "Legend No. 17" (2013) at the 2014 Russian National Movie Awards
- Best Actor - "Soulless 2" (2015) at the 2016 Nika Awards
- Best Stage Performance - at the 2016 Muz-TV Music Awards
Awards Nominated[]
- Best Kiss - "My iz budushchego" (2008) at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Russia
- Best Actor - "My iz budushchego" (2008) at the 2009 Golden Eagle Awards, Russia
- Best Russian Actor of the Year - at the 2013 Russian National Movie Awards
- Best Actor - "Dukhless" (2012) at the 2013 Russian guild of Film Critics
- Best Actor - "Dukhless" (2012) at the 2013 Nika Awards
- Best Russian Actor of the Decade - at the 2014 Russian National Movie Awards
- Best Actor - "Legenda No. 17" (2013) at the 2014 Golden Eagle Awards, Russia
- Best Russian Actor of the Year - at the 2015 Russian National Movie Awards
- Best Russian Hero of the Year - "Dukhless 2" (2015) at the 2016 Russian National Movie Awards
- Best Russian Actor of the Year - at the 2016 Russian National Movie Awards
- Best Actor - "Ekipazh" (2016) at the 2017 Golden Eagle Awards, Russia
- Best Emerging Talent - "Trener" (2018) at the 2018 Golden Unicorn Awards
- Best Supporting Actor - "Dovlatov" (2018) at the 2019 Russian guild of Film Critics
External Links[]
Danila Kozlovsky on IMDb - Danila Kozlovsky on Instagram
- Danila Kozlovsky on Kinorium
- Danila Kozlovsky on The Movie Database
- Danila Kozlovsky on Wikipedia
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