Filipp
Avdeev
Filipp Avdeev (also spelled Philipp Avdeev) was born in 1991 in Moscow, Russia. He began his acting career on stage when he was nine years old in the infamous «Nord - Ost» musical. In 2002 the theater where the musical was being performed was attacked by terrorists who held the audience, actors and theater staff hostage for 3 days. Filipp was among the hostages but managed to escape from the building 6 hours after the attack.
In 2008 he was accepted into Kirill Serebrennikov’s class at the Moscow Art Theatre School, which later became the Seventh Studio theater company. After graduation in 2012, together with the actors of the Seventh Studio, Filipp joined Moscow's renowned Gogol Center theater, newly formed that same year by Serebrennikov. At Gogol Center he played nearly 20 leading roles. Filipp is the winner of several theatre awards and two-time nominee for the Russian national theater award, the «Golden Mask».
In 2016 Filipp debuted as a theater director, staging «Iolanta/Opus» on Gogol Center’s blackbox stage. A year later he directed «Sea of Trees» there as well, and in 2021 he staged «Fear and Loathing in Moscow» - which premiered on Gogol Center’s main stage.
At the same time, Filipp has played more than 30 roles in cinema and various TV-series. Three lead roles in projects that enjoyed commercial success also earned Filipp critical acclaim: In 2015 «Correction Class» was nominated for «Best Russian Drama of the Year» at the Russian national Kinotavr film awards as well as various other nominations at national and international film festivals. His next film, «Leto», was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 71st Festival de Cannes. «Leto» would go on to take part in numerous other international film festivals, as well. Premiering in 2018, «Acid» won in the Kinotavr. Debut nomination at the Russian national film festival Kinotavr and later was screened at the Berlinale's Panorama selection. One of his latest works is the role of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’ twin brothers in «Tchaikovsky’s Wife» (75th Festival de Cannes, official selection) directed by Kirill Serebrennikov.
Filipp is currently involved in collaborations at various German theaters, playing lead roles in «The Decameron» at Berlin’s Deutsches Theater and in three productions at Hamburg’s Thalia Theater, including a successful tour of Thalia’s “The Black Monk” (directed by Serebrennikov) to Paris’s renowned Théâtre du Châtelet where Filipp plays the lead role of Andrey Kovrin. In June 2022 “The Black Monk” also opened the venerable Festival d’Avignon, performing in the Cour d'Honneur at Avignon’s Palais des Papes.
In Autumn of 2022, Filipp took part in the anti-war performance «Der Wij» at Thalia’s Gaußstraße blackbox, which later toured throughout Europe in early Summer 2023. This international collaboration includes actors from different countries, Ukraine, Russia and Germany, together on one stage. In April 2023 Thalia Theater premiered its latest production, «Three Sisters» directed by Anne Lenk, in which Filipp played Jakobi. His latest film works include a role in the German film «Die Ermittlung» directed by Rolf Peter Kahl, expected to premiere in 2024 and the film «Debate», in which Filipp played one of the main roles. In 2025, Filipp played an episodic role in the television series «Ponies», produced by Universal Television. The same year, he premiered the stage production «Der Schneesturm», created in collaboration with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, based on a novella by Vladimir Sorokin and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. The premiere took place at the Salzburg Festival.