Semyon Mikhailovich Strugachyov (Russian: Семён Миха́йлович Стругачёв; born December 10, 1957) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor,[1] People's Artist of Russia (2008).

[2] Semyon Strugachyov was born on December 10, 1957, in the village of Smidovich, Smidovichsky District, Jewish Autonomous Region.

[3] In 1979, he graduated from the acting department of the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute of Arts in Vladivostok.

In 1988 he started acting at the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre.

All-Russian fame to Strugachyov was brought by Aleksandr Rogozhkin’s comedy Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995).