Kirill Zaytsev

Kirill Andreyevich Zaytsev (; born August 16, 1987) is a Russian actor, film director, and producer. For his role in Going Vertical he received the Golden Eagle Award in 2019. Life and career Kirill Zaytsev was born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). In his youth he studied music, dancing, basketball. In 2011 he graduated from the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, moved to Riga, where he was accepted into the troupe of The Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre. In 2016, Kirill Zaytsev starred in one of the main roles in the highest-grossing Russian film Going Vertical, playing the legendary Soviet basketball player Sergei Belov, based on whose book the film was filmed. In 2018, he played the main role of American John Mackenzie, who comes to the Investigative Committee of Russia for the exchange of experience, - in the Channel One television series Cop by Radda Novikova.