Veniamin Smekhov

Veniamin Borisovich Smekhov is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. He was the winner of the Petropol Award as well as the Tsarskoselsky Artistic Prize. He refused the title of People's Artist of Russia, which was offered to him on his 70th birthday. Smekhov has long worked in the Moscow Taganka Theatre where his roles included Woland in a stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.