Childhood and youth
Matvey was born on August 12, 1988 in Ufa. Zubalevich has two sisters, and one of them, Nina, is his twin, the second is slightly older. As a child, Zubalevich was an athletic child - from the age of seven he was engaged in martial arts, running, and skiing.
Matvey Zubalevich and his twin sister Nina in childhood
Zubalevich's parents divorced when he was not yet six. The mother of three children, who worked as an accountant, had a hard time, so Matvey quickly grew up, got used to independence and learned to take care of himself and his loved ones: at the age of 14 he worked part-time at a car wash, at 16 he distributed advertising leaflets.
Matvey Zubalevich before becoming famous
After graduating from school No. 130, Matvey decided to get involved with numbers and technology and entered the College of Statistics, Informatics and Computer Science.
Behind the scenes
Where did Matvey Zubalevich and his wife meet, how long have they been together? The actor is currently focused on work. He believes that it is too early for him to get married and does not feel ready for family life. Matvey promises that he will marry only the girl with whom he wants to go through his whole life. He expects, first of all, fidelity from his chosen one. Zubalevich also does not hide the fact that he intends to have only one child. The actor really wants it to be a girl, as he dreams of a daughter.
Matvey has a best friend. Zubalevich starred together with actor Philip Bledny in “Daddy’s Daughters.” The guys go to the same sports club and often relax together.
A personal account on Instagram will help you learn more about Matvey Zubalevich. More than 300 thousand people are already interested in the actor’s personal life, such is the number of his subscribers. The basis of Instagram is Matvey’s professional photo shoots. There are also a lot of everyday photos. The actor is a big fan of selfies.
The beginning of an acting career
After graduating from college, Zubalevich realized that he was much more interested in the stage and art.
He, like every young artist, dreamed of entering the capital’s theater university and set his sights on the Shchukin School: he successfully passed the preliminary audition and was preparing for admission together with Professor Mikhail Semakov. A problem prevented him from enrolling: before the exams, he decided to work as a waiter on the Moscow-Kyiv train and was simply late for the entrance exams. In 2006, Zubalevich became one of the participants in the project “You are a movie star!” on the MTV Russia channel. The essence of the reality show was for ordinary guys and girls to take part in the filming of a real movie without any special preparation. Zubalevich showed his best performance and reached the final. The main award was the role of Micah in the comedy “Bold Days.”
Matvey Zubalevich in the film “Bold Days”
After this, his career stagnated, which lasted about two years. Matvey worked as a waiter, lived in a hostel, earned three thousand a month, but over the phone he assured his mother that he was doing well, that he had been accepted into Karen Shakhnazarov’s new project and that his career would soon take off.
At one of the castings, he was noticed by the Italian teacher Andrea Calbucci, who saw in Matvey a resemblance to his famous fellow countryman (Matvey himself doesn’t remember which one) and undertook to prepare the young actor for free for the TV series “Angels of War,” which was released only in 2012 year.
Trailer for the series "Angels of War". Starring Matvey Zubalevich
Bright roles
Matvey Zubalevich was able to play love in the military drama “Angels of War”. His hero was a policeman who betrays his homeland during the Great Patriotic War. However, his character's image was not strictly negative. Matvey's hero encourages viewers to think about many things, to stop dividing everything into black and white.
The adventure drama “Ship” was a success, in which the actor played the role of one of the cadets. Then the drama “Molodezhka” came out, thanks to which Zubalevich was overwhelmed by another wave of people’s love. He played Alexei Smirnov, who goes by the nickname “Smirny”. Matvey's character is a defender of the Bears club. He again played more of a negative than a positive character. However, the image created by Zubalevich captivated many with its ambiguity.
Film career
Soon the guy was approved for a small role of photographer Garik in the acclaimed TV series “Club”, in which the main characters were played by Anastasia Zadorozhnaya, Pyotr Fedorov and Marina Orel. Over the next five years, Zubalevich often appeared in famous domestic TV series: “Univer”, “Capercaillie”, “Daddy’s Daughters”.
Matvey Zubalevich in the series “Physics and Chemistry”
In 2011, Matvey received his first leading role - in the series “Physics and Chemistry” about the life of students in grade 10B, Zubalevich played the athlete Yuri, in love with Kira Kovaleva (Lilia Razakova). Soon the viewer was able to appreciate Matvey’s acting talent in the series “Closed School,” in which Zubalevich played one of the main characters, Anatoly (actor Alexander Nikitin) in his youth.
In 2012, Matvey starred in the military melodrama “Angels of War” by Ukrainian director Tatiana Khodakovskaya, which received many awards at various domestic and foreign festivals. Other prominent roles this year were supporting roles in the melodrama “Time to Love” and the serial action film “Delta”. In 2013, the actor got the main role in Artem Nasybulin’s melodrama “Once and Forever,” which was released at the end of 2015.
Matvey Zubalevich in the film “Once and Forever”
In January 2014, after the first episodes of the series “Ship” were shown on STS, Matvey woke up famous. In the post-apocalyptic saga about the only survivors on the planet, Zubalevich played one of the young cadets who went on a training voyage on the ship Running on the Waves. Matvey’s colleagues on the set were Dmitry Pevtsov, Roman Kurtsyn, Irina Antonenko, Ingrid Olerinskaya.
After the premiere of the series “Ship,” Matvey Zubalevich became famous
At the end of 2014, fans were able to see Zubalevich in the 2nd season of the sports series “Molodezhka”. The actor played Alexei Smirnov, nicknamed Smirny, a hockey defenseman number 13, and in subsequent seasons a player for the Titan, Arsenal, Russian national team and the Ice Kings team. Matvey Zubalevich in Nastya Krainova’s video for the song “Stop, time!” In 2015, the actor appeared in singer Nastya Krainova’s video for the song “Stop, Time!” The clip is replete with a large number of bed scenes, in which the singer and actor cover themselves only with pillows.
Matvey Zubalevich as Smirny from Molodezhka
In 2021, in parallel with filming in “Molodezhka,” Zubalevich starred in the leading roles in Roman Nesterenko’s sports drama “Groggy” and the Ukrainian crime series “Team.” In June of the same year, as part of the 38th Moscow International Film Festival, a screening of new films took place at the House of Cinema, among which was the art-house film “Psychos” by Alexei Kitaytsev. The film's cast included Zubalevich, Ilya Antonenko, Christina Asmus, Yegor Kharlamov and Daniil Vakhrushev.
Matvey Zubalevich in the film “Favorite Teacher”
In September 2021, the premiere of the multi-episode social drama “Favorite Teacher” took place on Channel One, in which the main roles were played by Alina Sergeeva and Oleg Gaas, while Matvey played the friend of the main character Ignat Kalinin.
Matvey Zubalevich now
In 2021, the actor played the main role in the sports drama Groggy. Matvey Zubalevich played the role of professional boxer Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, who accidentally fatally injured his opponent in the ring and his own friend Grigory Shamanov during the fight for the championship title. This terrible event forces the athlete to rethink his own life and think about whether to stay in professional boxing or leave.
Matvey Zubalevich in the film "Groggy"
In the same year, Matvey played the main role in the Ukrainian crime series “Team”. The actor played the role of police captain Andrei Kravets, who is so devoted to operational work that the hero’s wife cannot stand the constant absence of her husband and files for divorce.
The actor also played the role of Kostya Smirnov, a friend of the main character, in the Ukrainian social drama “Favorite Teacher” and the role of Gonza in the youth art house “Psychos”, dedicated to the transformation of an informal get-together into the Nazi movement.
Actor Matvey Zubalevich
Today Matvey Zubalevich is working on two new projects, which will premiere in 2021. The actor will play the main role in the science fiction detective film Contact. The three main characters, who are at the center of an explosion near a magnetic anomaly, find themselves telepathically connected. The characters react ambiguously to the new abilities, and bloody crimes begin in the city.
Also in 2021, another project with the actor’s participation will be released - the crime drama “Crossroads of Fate.”
