Anton Lapenko
Anton Vyacheslavovich Lapenko (born on September 1, 1986 in Zelenograd, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian film and theater actor.
In 2019 Lapenko became famed as an author of humorous Instagram sketches, styled as retro VHS videos. Characters played by Lapenko include a self-doubting engineer, a journalist producing the TV show The Mystery of the Hole, and an eccentric steamroller driver Igor Katamaranov. By January 2020, Lapenko's channel had 1,500,000 subscribers.
In December 2019 Lapenko published the movie series Within Lapenko on YouTube. The series were created by him (he also played all of the characters) alongside comedian Aleksei Smirnov (the screenwriter and film director). The plot is based on the life and adventures of characters from Lapenko's Instagram videos. According to the authors' presentation of the series, it is styled like late Soviet movies and isn't set in a particular time, but rather features a universe which combines the 1980s and 1990s.
Egor Maksimov from Maxim Online referred to the series as a parody of all genres of Soviet TV. Lapenko is compared to Leonid Gaidai and to Monty Python, not in the least due to his absurdist humour.
Acting
Movie
Limonov: The Ballad
as Ghost
2024
Movie
Deeper!
as Khachatryan
2020
TV
The Magic District
2023
TV
Inside Lapenko
as various
2019
TV
Chicks
as Yuri, the policeman
2020
Movie
Boomerang
as reporter
2021
TV
To the Sea
2021
TV
What Happened Next?
as Self - Guest
2019
Movie
Like a Man
2022
TV
Roots
2020
TV
Sex. Before and After
2023
Movie
Hot!
as Sasha
2019
TV
Acting
as Nikita Kislyak
2025
Movie
Rider
as Tolik (aka Oleg)
2020
Movie
The Grail of Magdalena Egorova
as Knight
2018
TV
Natal Chart
as Self - Guest
2023
Movie
Murder at the Pheasant's Nest
as сыщик Жилин
2021
Movie
Poplar Fluff
2024
Movie
The Car Thief
2015
TV
By the Way
as Self - Guest
2023
TV
Big Show
as Self - Contestant
2023
Movie
Pinocchio
2024
Movie
The Missing Cyclist
Movie
Однушка
2019