Matvey Zubalevich is a popular Russian actor who often appears in youth series. Television projects "Physics or Chemistry", "Youth" and "Psychologist" brought him fame.
Early biography
Matvey Zubalevich was born in 1988 in Ufa and was brought up in a large family. From childhood, he was very active and loved sports, doing martial arts, skiing and athletics. He received several annoying injuries, so he did not manage to become a professional athlete, but did not leave training and is still in excellent physical shape. Matvey received a secondary specialized technical education, and then decided to become an actor and successfully entered the Ufa State Academy of Arts named after Z. Ismagilova.
The young man took his goal to become a professional actor so seriously that he hired a personal acting teacher, Andrea Calbucci, who trained celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. In 2007, a novice actor was cast on the TV show "You are a movie star" on MTV Russia. He got to the finals and earned the right to shoot in the youth movie "The Defiant Days", in which he played with Gosha Kutsenko.
Further career
In 2011, Matvey Zubalevich played the role of the bully Yuri Kharitonov in the youth melodrama "Physics or Chemistry". This project brought him popularity in Russia. Then Zubalevich appeared in the sports series "Youth", playing the defender of the team "Bears" Alexei Smirnov. In 2016, Matvey played the key role of boxer Vyacheslav Kuznetsov in the sports drama "Groggie", and in 2018 he played one of the images in the detective with elements of the fiction "Contact".
In 2019, Zubalevich made his debut in the second season of the series “Psychologists” on the STS channel, playing in tandem with Anna Starshenbaum. This time he played the role of a positive character, an athlete who is in a relationship with the main character. The previous years of training helped Matvey very much, easily coping with this role.
