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Vyacheslav Yurievich Ross (Glory Ross; born October 22, 1966, Berdsk, Novosibirsk region) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Biography
Vyacheslav Ross was born on October 22, 1966 in Berdsk (Novosibirsk region) in a family of engineers. During his school years he worked in a children's theater studio. He studied at the Novosibirsk Water Institute. Without graduating from the institute, Vyacheslav entered the Novosibirsk Theatre School at the acting faculty. After graduation, he was invited to the Novosibirsk Drama Theatre “Red Torch”. In 1989-1996, Vyacheslav was the leading actor of this theater, played the main roles in the plays Romeo and Juliet, The Game of Imagination, Harold and Maude, The Importance of Being Serious, The Seagull. He played the role of Richard the Lionheart in the American production of The Lion in Winter (1997-1999). He played the main role in the film of the Izhevsk film studio “The Shadow of Alangasar”.

Then Ross entered VGIK at the directing faculty in the studio of Vladimir Khotinenko and Vladimir Fenchenko. In 2001, he was awarded a scholarship from the Sergei Eisenstein Foundation as the best student, and in 2004, a scholarship from the President of the Russian Federation as the best student, according to the results of his studies, he was included in the Presidential Directory of Intellectual Resources of Russia.

In 2002, Slava Ross directed his first short film Meat, which won 27 international awards. In 2003, together with his partners, Ross founded the film company Tundra Film. A loud debut in the film allowed Ross to enter the list of young directors support program “Cannes Residence”. As part of this program, Ross wrote the script for his novel “Forgotten in Siberia” and the script “Dumb Fat Hare”, on which he made his first feature film in 2006. The film received several international awards.

In 2011, Slava Ross released his second full-length film - the drama "Siberia. Monamur" (the film company "Tundra Film" and the production company of Luc Besson "EuropaCorp"). The film Siberia. Monamour Ross received seventy awards at international film festivals.

The next film of the director is the social melodrama “Son”, which became the closing film of the XXV festival of Russian cinema “Window to Europe” in 2017. The film was originally filmed as a mini-series (four episodes) for Channel One. But the series on the First channel never came out. It was shown in Latvia and Kazakhstan. Then, from the footage, the studio mounted a full-length film. At the Sochi International Film Festival (SIFFA), Ross was awarded the prize for Best Director.

Member of the Guild of Film Directors of Russia.

Personal life
Wife – Sonya Ross (née Sofia Oleynik, born 1980), Russian actress, director.

Filmography

Movie roles
1994 - Shadow of Alangasar - Danube
2006 Dumb Fat Hare as Alexei Eduardovich

Director
2003 - Meat (short)
2006 Dumb Fat Hare
2011 Siberia. Monamour
2017 - Son
2017 - Captain Krutov's Operetta
2020 – Only serious relationships

Screenwriter
2003 - Meat (short meter)