Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
19
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-06-23 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Also Known As
Валерій Шалига
Шалига Валерій Леонтійович
Valeriy Shalyha
Valeriy Shalyga
Valeriy Shaliha
Valerii Shalyha
Biography
Film director, actor, screenwriter, producer. Honored Artist of Ukraine, Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, Member of the Expert Commission at State Cinema. He was born on June 23, 1963, in the village of Velyki Korovyntsi, Chudniv district, Zhytomyr region. In 1985, he graduated from the theater studio at the Kyiv Academic Theater, named after I. Franko. In 1993, he made his debut as a film director at the O.P. Dovzhenka film studio (A.Y. Voytetskyi's workshop). In 1999, he graduated from the Kyiv Theater Institute named after I. Karpenko-Kary.
