Jüri Krjukov

Personal Info

Birthday

September 5, 1954

Day of Death

1997-10-18

(43 years old)

Place of Birth

Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Also Known As

Юрий Крюков

Yury Kryukov

Юри Крюков

Yuriy Kryukov

Jüri Krjukov

Biography

Jüri Krjukov (September 5, 1954 – October 18, 1997) was an Estonian actor. Jüri Krjukov was born in Tallinn to Igor Krjukov, an engineer of Russian origin, and Maria Krjukov (née Pirson), who was Estonian.

He had an older brother Oleg, seven years his senior. When he was six-months-old, his father died and his mother supported the family by working as a hairdresser. In 1968, aged fourteen, Krjukov made his film debut in a starring role as Ilmar, an Estonian boy in the Pioneer organization, in the Aleksandr Kurochkin directed Russian language children's film Passenger from the "Equator".