Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (Russian: Алексей Васильевич Петренко; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in the Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.

Selected filmography

• King Lear (Король Лир, 1971) as Oswald
• In Agony by Elem Klimov (1974–1981, Агония), Petrenko, played the role of Grigori Rasputin, released in 1982 in the West and in 1985 in the USSR.
• Twenty Days Without War (Двадцать дней без войны, 1976) as Yuri Stroganov
• How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил, 1976) as Peter the Great
• Farewell (Прощание, 1983) as Vorontsov
• TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить..., 1984) as Paul Dick
• A Cruel Romance (Жестокий романс, 1984) as Knurov
• The Prisoner of Château d'If (Узник замка Иф, 1988) as Abbé Faria
• The Servant (Слуга, 1989) as Roman Romanovich Bryzgin
• World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West (Вторая мировая война. За закрытыми дверями: Сталин, нацизм и и Запад, 2008) as Joseph Stalin
• The Barber of Siberia (1998) as General Radlov
• Musketeers Twenty Years After (Мушкетёры двадцать лет спустя, 1992) as King Charles I
• Memoirs on Sherlock Holmes (Воспоминания о Шерлоке Холмсе, 2000) as Arthur Conan Doyle
• In August 1944 (В августе 44-го…, 2001) as General Yegorov
• The Idiot (TV series) (Идиот, 2003) as general Ardalion Ivolgin
• 12 (2007) as 5th Juror
• Into The Storm (Навстречу шторму, 2009) as Joseph Stalin
• Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009) as Granddad
• Burnt by the Sun 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2, 2010) as elderly lieutenant-accountant
• Viktor (Виктор, 2014) as Vetrov

Awards

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988)
• Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (1998)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation(1999)
• People's Artist of Ukraine (1999)
• Golden Eagle Award (2007)
• Order of Honour (2014)