Alec Utgoff facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Alec Utgoff
Alec Utgoff At Wales Comic-Con Homecoming Wrexham 2022
Born	Oleg Vladimirovich Utgoff (1986-03-01) 1 March 1986 (age 38) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
Alma mater	Drama Centre London
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2010–present

Alec Utgoff (Ukrainian: Олег Володимирович Утгоф; born 1 March 1986, Kyiv, USSR) is a Kyiv-born English actor. He pursued acting and graduated from the prestigious Drama Centre London. He is known for playing the role of Aleksandr Borovsky in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Dr. Alexei in the third season of Stranger Things. His other notable roles include Alexi in San Andreas (2015), Dmitri in Mortdecai (2015) and Yuri/Dimitri in The Wrong Mans (2015).

Early life

Utgoff was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) to Roza, a musical conductor, and Volodymyr, a heart surgeon who is an honored doctor of modern-day Ukraine. In 1996, at the age of 10, he moved to London, England. His brother Alan is an economist and his parents still live in Kyiv. Ethnically he is half Russian, half Ossetian with some ethnic German ancestry on his father's side. He is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English.

He openly expresses his sympathy towards Russia, adorning his social media profiles with quotes from Russian literature. Additionally, he frequently visits the territory of the Russian Federation. [1]

On his Instagram page, he posted a photo [2] with, known as Pasha Mercedes [3] for his passion for luxury, and referred to him as his godfather. Pavlo Lebid is a Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, associated with the dissemination of Russian propaganda. In July 2023, the Solomiansky District Court in Kyiv arrested Metropolitan Pavlo on suspicion of subversive activities against Ukraine.

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