Yevhen Malukha

Yevhen Malukha
Born (1961-07-24) July 24, 1961
Kyiv, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Occupations
  • Theatre and film actor
  • Educator
  • Announcer
  • Voice actor
  • Dubbing director
SpouseSvitlana Avtukhova

Yevhen Mykolayovych Malukha; born July 24, 1961, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian actor of theatre and film, educator, announcer, voice actor, and dubbing director.

Biography

Yevhen Malukha was born on July 24, 1961, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Theatrical work

  • 1982–1985: Actor at the Sumy Theatre for Children and Youth.
  • 1985–1994: Actor at the Kyiv Academic Young Theatre.
  • 1994–1998: Actor at the Kyiv Variety Theatre, Zoloti Vorota Theatre, and the Kyiv Academic Drama and Comedy Theatre on the Left Bank.

Teaching career

  • 1998–2002: Rhetoric instructor at the Children's Academy of Arts.
  • 2000–2009: Lecturer in the Department of Stage Speech at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University.
  • 2004–2009: Announcer for the information broadcasting department of the K1 television channel, including the program Earth in the Porthole as Leonardo Lyuty.
  • 2004–2007: Announcer for the Glas television channel.
  • Since autumn 2009: Periodically conducts the masterclass "Mastering Your Voice: Diction and Charisma" at the Kyiv-based company Kruhozyr.

Filmography

  • Bastion (1983)
  • People's Malakhiy (1991)
  • Burzhuy's Birthday (1999)
  • Right to Defense (2002)
  • Farewell to Cairo (2002)
  • Little Dancer (2011)
  • Beetle (2013)
  • Doctor Kovalchuk (2017)
  • Ether (2018)
  • On the Swings of Fate (2018)
  • Dentist (2018)
  • Shadow of Love (2018)
  • Day of the Sun (2019)
  • Plantain (2019)
  • Mr. Jones (2019)
  • Saga (2020)
  • Paradise House (2021)

Dubbing and voice acting

Malukha has provided hundreds of voice roles in Ukrainian and Russian for studios and television channels such as 1+1, ICTV, Le Doyen, and others.

He voiced Professor Kalancha, nine unique characters, and numerous non-unique character lines in the video games S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, developed by the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World.

Due to his distinctive Ukrainian-language voice work in several iconic films and series, Malukha is sometimes referred to as the "Ukrainian voice of Homer Simpson, Alf, and Dr. House".[1]

In 2023, in collaboration with Ukrainian fan studios "Lifecycle" and "Kachur," he voiced the character "James Elliott" in episodes 2 and 5 of the animated web series Murder Drones.

References

  1. ^ "Ukrainian Voice of Homer Simpson, Alf, and Dr. House: Interview with Yevhen Malukha by Oleksiy Tarasov". life.nv.ua (in Ukrainian). 2018-04-19. Archived from the original on 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2025-05-16.