Vsevolod Kuznetsov is known to both children and adults as the voice of many characters and from games, cartoons and films. How did Vsevolod become a voice actor, what characters did he voice and what is known about his personal life?
Childhood and youth
Vsevolod was born on February 25 in 1970 in the city of Alma-Ata. Vsevolod's parents are engineers whose favorite hobbies were hiking and picnics in the mountains on weekends. When Vsevolod was 5 years old, at one of the picnics Seva amazed both parents and family friends by reciting the monologue of Arkady Raikin by heart. Also, Vsevolod, as a child, loved to mimic the voices of movie characters and cartoon characters.
Football was also the real passion of the future voice actor. Neither the first nor the second hobby prevented Vsevolod from graduating from school with honors and a gold medal. And already in 1987, the Kazakh excellent student went to Moscow and became a student of the Schepkinsky school, the first year of Yuri Solomin.
Scoring films
After Kuznetsov graduated from the university, he served for several years at the Moscow Art Theater, headed by Tatyana Doronina herself. As for the voice acting, the actor was brought to this steppe by an ordinary and banal case. While still a young teacher, Vsevolod once went to the famous Pythagoras studio to take a phonogram for one of his students' graduation performances and, already at the studio, showed his talents and skills as a parodist. A little later, the studio employees invited Vsevolod as a voiceover for one of the characters in the cartoon "The Little Mermaid".
Now the voice actor has more than a hundred works in his portfolio, but his favorite projects are films such as The Secret Life of Benjamin Button and the equally wonderful film Meet Joe Black. As for the most difficult projects, these are practically all those films in which Vsevolod had to voice Adam Sandler (the actor constantly distorts words and adds gag, which has to be somehow optimally translated for the Russian audience).
Also in Vsevolod's track record is the voice of Puss in Boots, Voldemort, almost all the characters of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Vsevolod was also an announcer in the program "The Battle of Psychics" and in the program "School of Repair".
Game scoring
Among the most popular characters, whose voice acting Vsevolod was engaged in, the following characters can be distinguished:
- The Sinking City. The game is relatively new and the gameplay consists of talking, running and fighting battles. And voiced, the main character, detective Reed with extraordinary abilities, Vsevolod.
- The Witcher, parts 2 and 3. Vsevolod became the voice of Geralt from the second part, while in the first part Vladimir Zaitsev was engaged in dubbing. Vsevolod's heads fit the protagonist just perfect. And additional atmosphere to the voice acting was given by songs, sharpness, rudeness, irony, etc. And the one who played The Witcher probably added his trademark "Infection!" To his personal collection.
- The Last of Us. Anyone knows this game, which has become almost an icon of games with a great storyline. Kuznetsov was able to vividly convey both funny and dramatic moments, and he conveyed them in such a way that even a person who did not know the game cried at the very beginning of the game. Vsevolod perfectly conveyed the emotions of the protagonist.
- Assasin`s Creed. In these games, Vsevolod was engaged in the voice acting of the main assassin - Altair ibn La-Ahad. The game became a revolution in the year it was released. Mysteriously, the setting and atmosphere of the game won over almost any gamer. By the way, this particular character was encountered in almost every subsequent game.
And these are not all the playable characters voiced by Vsevolod.
Personal life
Very often Vsevolod shares photos on his pages in the social network Vkontakte and Facebook. For many years, the wife of the voice actor is Elena, who is a former sound engineer at a dubbing studio. And for all the time of their life together, a wonderful husband and wife had three children - a son Sasha and daughters Masha and Katya.
As Vsevolod notes in each of his interviews, he always responds with refusals to offers to smoke or to become the voice of advertising with political content. And Vsevolod keeps his voice in normal shape thanks to his habit from time to time to drink very cold, straight ice water.
Vsevolod and the political issue
At the end of 2017, Vsevolod took part in the discussion of one of the initiatives of Vladimir Petrov (deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region). The initiative was to stop broadcasting foreign films and Russian voice acting on television. This, as the politician notes, will allow people to learn foreign languages. Vsevolod noted that in this case, people will simply search for films with any voice acting on the Internet, and not learn languages.
Vsevolod now
At the end of 2018, Vsevolod voiced two computer games in the Witcher universe, and the voice actor noted that in games he has much more room for space and imagination. Vsevolod also said that during the scoring of films, he, like other voice actors, needs to reproduce as accurately as possible for the audience of Russia exactly the same emotions that were played by foreign actors.
And in 2019, the comedy "Fast Family" was released, in which Vsevolod voiced the character of Mark Wahlberg. By the way, Vsevolod had already done voice acting for Mark in other films before.
