Personal Info
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
BirthdayJune 23, 1963
Place of BirthZhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
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.
