Konstantin Khabensky, Passes Away in USA
Anastasiya Khabenskaya (photo by: rian.ru)
Anastasiya Khabenskaya, a radio journalist and actress married to popular Russian actor Konstantin Khabensky, died from complications of a brain tumor in Los Angeles this week. She was 35.
The couple, both natives of St. Petersburg, Russia, were married on January 12, 2000. Their only child, Ivan (Vanechka) was born in 2007. Anastasiya developed the brain tumor during her pregnancy and was treated at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and the Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow. Anastasiya's friends remember her as a young, energetic woman who loved life and her son. Anastasiya met Konstantin in 1999, when she interviewed the upstart actor for her radio show, and as Konstantin said, "it was love at first sight."
A former electrical engineering student and struggling street musician, Konstantin Khabensky is best known to American audiences for his role in the Angelina Jolie action-adventure movie Wanted. Russians know him best as the star of Admiral (Kolchak), The Irony of Fate 2 (Ironi Sudbi 2), Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor), Day Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor) and other Russian blockbusters.
Russia Blog expresses our sincere condolences to Konstantin Khabensky and his family.
Click here to read the story in Russian at the RIA Novosti website. Click on the extended post to read Konstantin Khabensky's biography from the IMDB website:
Konstantin Khabensky is a Russian actor known for his work in horror flicks Nochnoy Dozor (2004) and Dnevnoy Dozor (2006).He was born Konstantin Yuryevich Khabensky on January 11, 1972, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). His father, Yuri Khabensky, and his mother, Tatiana Gennadievna (nee Nikulina), were engineers-hydrologists. Young Konstantin Khabensky studied electronics at the Leningrad Technical School of Aviation Electronics and Automatics. He dropped out on the third year after deciding that electronics was not for him.
He played guitar on the Nevsky Prospect as a struggling street musician, then was a stage technician at the Theatre-Studio "Subbota" in Leningrad. From 1990 to 1995 Khabensky studied acting at the St. Peterburg Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. There his classmates were Mikhail Porechenkov, Andrei Zibrov, and Mikhail Trukhin. In 1995, Khabensky graduated from the class of Veniamin Filshtinsky, as an actor. He had a five-month stint at the Raikin's Theatre of Satire in Moscow, but there he was deprived of any serious work, so he returned to St. Petersburg.
Khabensky made his film debut in Na Kogo Bog Poschlet (1994). He shot to fame in Russia after co-starring in "Uboynaya sila" (2000), a popular series about crime in St. Petersburg, Russia. Khabensky ascended to international fame with the leading role as Anton in the popular Russian vampire franchise, Nochnoy Dozor (2004), and the second installment, Dnevnoy Dozor (2006), by director Timur Bekmambetov and based on eponymous books by Sergei Lukyanenko.
From 1996 to 2003 Khabensky was a member of the troupe at the St. Petersburg Theatre of Lensovet. There he worked together with his former classmates Mikhail Porechenkov, Mikhail Trukhin and Andrei Zibrov under directorship of Yuri Butusov. In 2003 Khabensky and Porechenkov were invited by Oleg Tabakov to work with the Moscow Art Theatre. There Khabensky has been playing the leading role in "White Guard", a classic play by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. He also appeared as Claudius in the Shakespeare's "Hamlet" directed by Yuri Butusov.
Khabensky made appearances on stage at the St. Petersburg Theatre of Lensovet in the leading role in a contemporary play 'V ozhidanii Godo', and as Kaligula in the eponymous play by Albert Camus.
Konstantin Khabensky has been married to radio-journalist Anastasiya Khabenskaya. He has homes in both Russian capitals: Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Konstantin Khabensky and his wife Anastasiya (Photo by: Life.ru)
Khabensky lived in Moscow, his hometown of St. Petersburg, and Los Angeles, where he and his frequent director and collaborator Timur Bekmambetov filmed Wanted and were reportedly working on the third installment in the dozori trilogy, Twilight Watch
