Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky (Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Зеленський; Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Зеле́нский; born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, actor, comedian, and director who was elected President of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. Prior to his political career, he obtained a degree in law and created a production company, Kvartal 95, which produces films, cartoons and TV comedy shows. Kvartal 95 created a television series called Servant of the People, in which Zelensky played the role of President of Ukraine. The series aired from 2015 to 2019. A political party bearing the same name as the television show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.  Zelensky announced his candidacy on the eve of 31 December 2018, upstaging the New Year's Eve address of President Petro Poroshenko on 1+1 TV Channel. Six months before Zelensky announced his candidacy, he was already one of the frontrunners in opinion polls for the election.  Zelensky won the election with 73.22% of the vote, defeating incumbent Petro Poroshenko. Zelensky was born 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, to Jewish parents.  His father, Oleksandr Zelensky  , is a professor who heads an academic department of cybernetics and computing hardware at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics; his mother, Rimma Zelenska, used to work as an engineer.  Prior to starting elementary school, he lived for four years in Mongolia in the city of Erdenet where his father worked. Zelensky earned a law degree from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics but has not worked professionally in the legal field. At age 17, he joined the local KVN team (a comedy competition) and was soon invited to join the united Ukrainian team "Zaporizhia-Kryvyi Rih-Transit" which performed in the KVN's Major League and eventually won in 1997. That same year, he created and headed the Kvartal 95 team which later transformed into the comedy outfit Kvartal 95. From 1998 to 2003, Kvartal 95 performed in the Major League and the highest open Ukrainian league of KVN, the team members spent a lot of the time in Moscow and constantly toured around post-Soviet countries. In 2003, Kvartal 95 started producing TV shows for the Ukrainian TV channel 1+1, and in 2005 the team moved to fellow Ukrainian TV channel Inter. In 2008, he starred in the feature film Love in the Big City, and its sequel, Love in the Big City 2. Zelensky continued his movie career with the film Office Romance. Our Time in 2011 and with Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon in 2012. Love in the Big City 3 was released in January 2014. Zelensky also played the leading role in the 2012 film 8 First Dates and in sequels which were produced in 2015 and 2016. Zelensky was a member of the board and the general producer of the TV channel Inter from 2010 to 2012. In August 2014, Zelensky spoke out against the intention of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to ban Russian artists from Ukraine. Since 2015, Ukraine has banned Russian artists and other Russian works of culture from entering Ukraine. In 2018, the romantic comedy Love in the Big City 2 starring Zelensky was banned in Ukraine. After the Ukrainian media had reported that during the War in Donbass Zelensky's Kvartal 95 had donated 1 million hryvnias to the Ukrainian army, Russian politicians and artists petitioned for a ban on his works in Russia. Once again, Zelensky spoke out against the intention of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to ban Russian artists from Ukraine. In 2015, Zelensky became the star of the popular television series Servant of the People, where he plays the role of the President of Ukraine.^[6] In the series, Zelensky's character is a thirty-something high-school history teacher who wins the presidential election after a viral video shows him ranting against government corruption in Ukraine. Zelensky worked mostly in Russian. His first role in the Ukrainian language was planned as the romantic comedy "I, You, He, She ^] which appeared on the screens of Ukraine in December 2018.  The first version of the script was written in Ukrainian but was translated into Russian for the Lithuanian actress Agnė Grudytė. Then the movie was dubbed into Ukrainian; the quality of dubbing was criticized by reviewers.  In December 2018, Zelensky stated that "Kvartal 95" had made its last movie with its legal Russian subsidiary in 2012 and that its office in Moscow had been shuttered in 2014. In January 2019 he said that he still has shared commercial interests with Russian companies, but only as a co-owner of a Cyprus-registered firm "Green Family LTD" that, in turn, owns the Russian film making company Grin Films. Zelensky also stated that he had no role in Grin Films' successful application for a grant from the Russian Ministry of Culture. 

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