Mark Eydelshteyn

Born: 18 February 2002

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Years Active: 2021-present

Mark Aleksandrovich Eydelshteyn (born 18 February 2002) is a Russian actor. After starring in the coming-of-age film The Land of Sasha (2022), he gained international recognition with his breakthrough role in the American film Anora (2024).

Mark Aleksandrovich Eydelshteyn was born on 18 February 2002 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and is of Jewish heritage. He has a younger brother, Matvey Eydelshteyn (Russian: Матвей Эйдельштейн). His mother, Olesya Valeryevna Eydelshteyn, works as a teacher of stage speech (dialect) at the Nizhny Novgorod Theatre School named after Yevgeny Yevstigneyev. The young Eydelshteyn often skipped actual school to join his mother at the theatre school. His father is Alexander Eydelshteyn, a journalist and football promoter who worked in Moscow and Chukotka, later a civil servant.

In 2018, Eydelshteyn passed the regional selection for the "Living Classics" competition for young readers and made it to the all-Russian final, held in Artek. There, Eydelshteyn met the dean of the acting department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts Taras Belousov, who advised him to finish school as soon as possible and enter a theatre university — which he did, upon graduating from his mother's school in 2019, entering the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio. He graduated in 2023.