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Semyon Mikhailovich Strugachyov (Russian: Семён Миха́йлович Стругачёв ; born December 10, 1957) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, People's Artist of Russia (2008).

Semyon Strugachyov was born on December 10, 1957, in the village of Smidovich, Smidovichsky District, Jewish Autonomous Region. Father Misha Strugashvili is half Georgian, half Mountain Jew.

In 1979, he graduated from the acting department of the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute of Arts in Vladivostok. He also worked in the Primorsky Regional Drama Theater (Vladivostok), Gorky Academic Theater, Kuibyshev Drama Theater. In 1988 he started acting at the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre.

He made his debut in cinema in 1991. All-Russian fame to Strugachyov was brought by Aleksandr Rogozhkin’s comedy Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995). Subsequently, starred in all sequels of this film.