Boris Leskin (5 January 1923 – 21 February 2020) was a Soviet and American film and theater actor.

Biography

Born on 5 January 1923, in 1937 his father was arrested and executed. During the Great Patriotic War he was employed as a sapper at the front and was wounded. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and medals.

In 1952 he graduated from the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatre Institute (Leonid Makaryev course). From 1951 to 1980 he worked as an actor in the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. In 1980 he began his career in the United States as a theater actor in New York City. He was included on the nomination committee for Academy Awards. 

In 2011 director Eduard Staroselsky made a documentary about him: Bob Has Been Removed. Minesweeper Bolshoi Drama (with Sergei Yursky). Leskin died on 21 February 2020.

Awards

• 2006: Pacific Meridian: Best Actor (Everything Is Illuminated)

Selected filmography

• Did We Meet Somewhere Before (1955)
• Unfinished Story (1955)
• Maksim Perepelitsa (1955)
• An Old, Old Tale (1968)
• Property of the Republic (1971)
• Heavenly Swallows (1976)
• Khanuma (1978)
• The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
• The Package (1989)
• Vampire's Kiss (1989)
• A Couch in New York (1996)
• Men in Black (2005)
• Cold Souls (2009)