Vasily Vasilyevich Luzhsky (Russian: Василий Васильевич Лужский, born Kaluzhsky, Калужский; 31 December 1869 — 2 July 1931) was a Russian Soviet stage actor and theatre director associated with the Moscow Art Theatre.

Born in Shuya, Vladimir Governorate, to a merchant family, Kaluzhsky debuted in 1890 on stage the Art and Literature Society, where he played 44 parts, some of which were later repeated in MAT, including that of Sir Toby in Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night.

In 1898 he joined Konstantin Stanislavski's original troupe and played Shuisky in the Moscow Art Theatre's very first production, that of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich by Alexey K.

[1] The same year he played Sorin in what came to be recognized later as the groundbreaking production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and soon became the first Russian performer of the part of Prozorov in The Three Sisters.

[2] Stanislavski who knew Luzhsky from the days of their youth, opined in his memoirs, that it was the "brilliant gift of imitator" that had prevented him from developing into a great actor which he had all the potential to become.