Yevgeny Borisovich Leonov-Gladyshev (Russian: Евге́ний Бори́сович Лео́нов-Гла́дышев; born 24 Jan 1952, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, and film director.

[2] He graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (workshop of Vasili Merkuryev and Irina Meyerhold).

His debut came in a teenage film Turn the Northern Lights [ru] (1972).

In the film The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979) Leonov-Gladyshev was offered a trial for one of the main roles, Sharapov.

Instead, director Stanislav Govorukhin offered Yevgeny a small role as an operative Vasya Vekshin.