Bogdan Benyuk (born May 26, 1957, Bytkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor, TV presenter, People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). Ukrainian politician, people's deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation. Deputy Chairman of the VO "Svoboda" for relations with Ukrainians abroad.
Bogdan Benyuk was born on May 26, 1957 in Bytkiv, Nadvornyansky district, Ivano-Frankivsk region.
In 1978 he graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Theater Arts named after Karpenko-Kary.
In 1978-1980 he worked at the Kiev Theater for Young Spectators.
Since 1980, he has been an actor of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv, for a number of years he has been among the leading ones.
In 1989-1994, without stopping his work in the theater, Bogdan Benyuk worked as a senior teacher at the State Institute of Theater Arts named after Karpenko-Kary. He hosted several entertainment TV programs - “The Lonely Bachelor Show” on the First National Channel and “White Crow” on the 1 + 1 channel.
Together with Anatoly Khostikoev and Miroslav Grinishin, he is a co-founder of the Benyuk and Khostikoev Theater Company.
According to political views, he adjoins Ukrainian nationalists, is a member of the VO "Svoboda", from which he was nominated as a candidate for deputies (see the top five list of the VO "Svoboda" in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2007). Since 2010 - Member of the Kiev Regional Council. He became a people's deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation after the successful parliamentary elections in 2012 for the VO "Svoboda".
After the change of power in Ukraine in 2014, on March 18, 2014, Benyuk, together with his colleagues in the Svoboda party, including Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Miroshnichenko, forced him to write a letter of resignation from the head of the National Television Company of Ukraine Oleksandr Panteleymonov. Benyuk's indignation was caused by the display of the celebration in Russia on the occasion of the return of the Crimea. The actions of members of the VO “Svoboda” party were condemned both by the public of Ukraine and by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk. More than thirty People's and Honored Artists of Ukraine signed a letter in which they believe that it would be an honest act on the part of Benyuk if he asked to remove the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. On March 27, 2014, Benyuk was included in the list of persons, published on the website of the Crimean Parliament, whose stay on the territory of Crimea is undesirable. Benyuk, commenting on the beating of Panteleymonov on March 31, 2014, refused to resign[11]. On April 4, 2014, Benyuka at his own creative evening to the cries of “Give up the mandate!” five people tried to throw rotten tomatoes.
In 2015, he was elected a deputy of the Kiev City Council from the VO "Svoboda".
