Known for

Acting

Born

Jan 26, 1960 (66 years old)

Place of birth

Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia]

Leonid Parfyonov

Russian veteran journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many popular documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is best known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was subdued by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek, Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere.

Titles

KVN Major League

Series • 1986

Fort Boyard Russia

Series • 1998

Evening Urgant

Series • 2012

Karamora

Series • 2022

Namedni

Series • 1997

Generation P

Movie • 2011

Russian Georgians. Part 1

Movie • 2020

Still Waters

Movie • 2000

Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.

Movie • 2016

Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.

Movie • 2017

He Came to Give Us Freedom

Movie • 2011

The Age of Nabokov

Movie • 1999

Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.

Movie • 2017