Vsevolod Kuznetsov is known to both children and adults as the voice of many characters from games, cartoons and films. How did Vsevolod become a voice actor, what characters did he voice and what is known about his personal life?
Childhood and youth
Vsevolod was born on February 25 in 1970 in the city of Alma-Ata. Vsevolod's parents are engineers whose favorite hobbies were hikes and picnics in the mountains on weekends. When Vsevolod was 5 years old, at one of the picnics Seva struck both his parents and family friends with what the monologue Arkady Raikin recited by heart. Vsevolod also in childhood loved to mimic the voices of movie characters and cartoon characters.
Also a real passion for the future voice actor was football. None of the first or second hobbies prevented Vsevolod from graduating from high school with honors and a gold medal. And already in 1987, the Kazakhstan excellent student went to Moscow and became a student at the Shchepkinsky school, for the first year of Yuri Solomin.
Scoring movies
After Kuznetsov graduated from high school, he served for several years at the Moscow Art Theater, led by Tatyana Doronina herself. As for the voice acting, an ordinary and banal case brought the actor to this steppe. As a young teacher, Vsevolod once went to the famous Pythagoras studio to take a phonogram for one of his students’graduation performances and, already at the studio, showed his talents and parodist skills. A little later, studio workers invited Vsevolod as the voiceover for one of the characters in the cartoon The Little Mermaid.
Now the actor’s voice acting in the portfolio has more than hundreds of works, but his favorite projects were films such as “The Secret Life of Benjamin Button” and the equally beautiful film “Meet: Joe Black”. As for the most difficult projects, these are almost all the films in which Vsevolod had to voice Adam Sandler (the actor constantly distortes the words and adds a gag that has to be translated somehow optimally for the Russian audience).
Interesting fact: Vsevolod does not like coffee and chocolate, as these products provoke salivation and champing sounds.
Also in the track record of Vsevolod is the voice of Cat in boots, Voldemort, almost all the characters of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Vsevolod was also an announcer in the program “Battle of psychics” and in the program “School of repair”.
Scoring games
Among the most popular characters, whose voice acting was engaged in Vsevolod, the following heroes can be distinguished:
- The Sinking City. The game is relatively new, and the gameplay consists of talking, running and fighting battles. And voiced, the main character, detective Reed with extraordinary abilities, Vsevolod.
- The Witcher, parts 2 and 3. Vsevolod became the voice of Geralt from the second part, while in the first part, Vladimir Zaitsev was engaged in his dubbing. Vsevolod’s head went up to the main character just perfectly. And an additional atmosphere was given to the voice acting by songs, poignancy, rudeness, irony, etc. And the one who played the Witcher, for sure, added to his personal collection his trademark "Infect!".
- The Last of Us. Anyone knows this game, which has become almost an icon of games with a great storyline. Kuznetsov was able to vividly convey both funny and dramatic moments, and conveyed them in such a way that even a person who did not know the game cried at the very beginning of the game. Vsevolod perfectly conveyed the emotions of the protagonist.
- Assasin's Creed. In these games, Vsevolod was engaged in the voice acting of the chief assassin - Altair ibn La Ahad. The game was a revolution in the year of its release. Mysteriously, the setting and atmosphere of the game bribed almost any gamer. By the way, this particular character was found in almost every subsequent game.
And these are not all the game characters voiced by Vsevolod.
Personal life
Very often Vsevolod shares photos on his pages on the social network Vkontakte and Facebook. For many years, the wife of the voice actor is Elena, who is in the past a sound engineer for a dubbing studio. And for all the time of marriage, a wonderful husband and wife had three children - son Sasha and daughters Masha and Katya.
As Vsevolod notes in each of his interviews, he always responds with refusals to offers to smoke or to become the voice of advertising of political content. And Vsevolod maintains his voice in normal form thanks to his habit of drinking very cold, straight ice water from time to time.
Vsevolod and the political question
At the end of 2017, Vsevolod took part in the discussion of one of the initiatives of Vladimir Petrov (deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad region). The initiative was to stop broadcasting foreign films on television with Russian voice acting. This, as the politician notes, will allow people to learn foreign languages. Vsevolod noted that in this case, people will simply search for films with any voice acting on the Internet, and not learn languages.
