Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2,730
of 15,890 eligible performers
Top 25%
Alexander Petrov works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alexander Petrov appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alexander. Invasion is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alexander Andryuschenko, Nikolay Lebedev, Alexander Petrov and others, Alexander Petrov helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Invasion (2020) as Artyom / Thomas · Anna (2019) as Piotr · Ice 2 (2020) as Sasha
Career snapshot
Ranked #2,730 of 15,890 eligible performers in the Nutevio catalogue.
Films in Nutevio
20
2018–2027
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Invasion
Average Nutevio score
4.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Ice 2
Most frequent director
Alexander Andryuschenko
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Alexander Andryuschenko
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Text, Anna, Ice — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Text, Anna, Ice.
Most productive era
2020s
16 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.43 films | 4.711 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | 6.81 film |
| Thriller | 6.52 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.24 films |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 6.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Ice
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sasha.
Highest rated performance
2019Anna
6.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2020Invasion
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Veselchak U
The current state of the argument, as Veselchak U.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
20 of 20 films
as Artyom / Thomas
Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk
as Sasha
Directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov
as Victor Voronin
Directed by Nikolay Lebedev
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Artyom / Thomas
Invasion (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Artyom / Thomas gives Alexander Petrov a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sasha
Ice 2 (2020)
Performance score7.4
Ice 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sasha is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Victor Voronin
Kraken (2025)
Performance score7.2
Kraken asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Victor Voronin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vasya / Kolya
Vasiliy (2025)
Performance score7.2
Vasiliy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vasya / Kolya is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Artyom / Thomas
Start here. Invasion is the clearest statement of what Alexander Petrov does — accessible, 129 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alexander at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Ice 2 (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Invasion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kraken (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Ice 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Vasiliy (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Kraken — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hustler (2026)
Same director as Vasiliy, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Egor Baranov
Director
1 film together
Notably Gogol. Viy
Oleg Trofim
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Anna
Klim Shipenko
Director
1 film together
Notably Text
Zhora Kryzhovnikov
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice 2
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Director
1 film together
Notably Invasion
Pyotr Todorovsky Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Love Story
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Palace
Alexander Petrov
Director
1 film together
Notably Planet Maximus
Nikolay Lebedev
Director
1 film together
Notably Kraken
Alexander Andryuschenko
Director
1 film together
Notably Veselchak U
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InvasionLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnaZhora Kryzhovnikov
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice 2Oleg Trofim
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IceNikolay Lebedev
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KrakenKlim Shipenko
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TextEgor Baranov
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gogol. ViyPyotr Todorovsky Jr.
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love StoryRoman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PalaceAlexander Andryuschenko
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Veselchak UAlexander Petrov
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Planet MaximusSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Invasion
as Artyom / Thomas
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Ice 2
as Sasha
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Anna
as Piotr
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Palace
as Russian Guest
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Invasion
as Artyom / Thomas
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Alexander Petrov has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Drama Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Golden Key: A New Pinocchio Story
as Bazilio
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Anna
as Piotr
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Golden Key: A New Pinocchio Story
as Bazilio
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gogol. Viy
as Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Anna
as Piotr
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Anna
as Piotr
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ice
as Sasha
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Love Story
as Seva Gorelov
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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