
Leonid Parfyonov
Department: Acting
Biography
Russian veteran journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many popular documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is best known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was subdued by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek, Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere.
Known For

Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison
2021

Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children
2021

Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife
2021

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997

The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
2014

Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
2012

Generation P
2011

Russian Georgians. Part 2
2022

And Personally Leonid Ilyich
2006

Still Waters
2000

Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2016

Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
2017

Eye of God
2012

Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
2017

Gogol the Bird
2009

Russia in Bloom
2013

Boris Godunov
2011

Russian Georgians. Part 1
2020

Listyev. A New Look
2020

Zvorykin-Muromets
2010

Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
2005

He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011

In Qvevri Veritas
2021

Children of the 20th Congress
1988

The Age of Nabokov
1999

Namedni
1997

Fort Boyard Russia
1998

Russian Empire
2000

Evening Urgant
2012

Karamora
2022

Без души
2019

KVN Major League
1986

Намедни 1961—2003. Наша эра
1997

KVN Major League
1986