Biographie
Yuri Aleksandrovich Demich was born on August 18, 1948, in Magadan, USSR. His father, Aleksandr Ivanovich Demich, was an actor at Moscow's Ermolova Drama Theatre. In 1966, Yuri graduated from the Acting Studio at the Gorky Theatre in Kuibyshev (now Samara). Between 1964 and 1973, he performed as an actor at the Gorky Theatre in Kuibyshev, Russia.
From 1974 to 1986, Demich was part of the renowned Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) troupe in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), led by director Georgi Tovstonogov. He collaborated with Tovstonogov for 12 years and worked alongside an exceptional ensemble of actors at BDT. His stage colleagues included Kirill Lavrov, Oleg Borisov, Oleg Basilashvili, Tatyana Doronina, Alisa Freyndlikh, Lyudmila Makarova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Zinaida Sharko, Natalya Danilova, Tatyana Bedova, Valentina Kovel, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Sergei Yursky, Efim Kopelyan, Nikolai Volkov, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Nikolay Trofimov, Georgiy Shtil, Vadim Medvedev, Leonid Nevedomsky, Roman Gromadskiy, Andrey Tolubeev, Gennadiy Bogachyov, among many other distinguished Russian actors.
Yuri Demich was honored with the title People's Artist of Russia and received the State Prize of the USSR in 1978, alongside various other awards for his stage and film work. His son, Aleksandr Demich, is a well-known film and stage actor in Russia, and his daughter, Yelena Lyukshinova, is an actress and public figure based in Moscow. From 1988 to 1990, Demich was a member of the Ermolova Drama Theatre troupe in Moscow. His career included over 30 film roles and more than 50 stage performances. Yuri Demich passed away from a heart attack on December 24, 1990, in Moscow and was buried at Vagankovskoe Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
