Biography

Mikhail Kaminsky was an actor, director and teacher, one of the founders of the Ilkhom theatre in Tashkent (founded in 1976). In 1980 he graduated from the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute.

He worked as an actor at the Russian Theatre of Young Spectators and at the Gorky Russian Drama Theatre in Tashkent. From 1998 he was artistic director of the Aladdin theatre in Tashkent, and from 2022 he led an acting workshop at the Tashkent branch of VGIK.

His film work includes «Proshchay, zelen leta…», «Kammi» (as Porthos), «Siz kimsiz?», «Nazira» and «Ilhaq», as well as «Midnight Blues», «All Quiet in Baghdad» and «Transit for the Devil». He was an Honoured Artist of Uzbekistan. He died in late May 2025.