Anatoliy Belyy

Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Weissman, known professionally as Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Beliy (born 1 August 1972) is a Soviet-born Israeli actor. He was awarded the Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 2006. Anatoliy Beliy was born in Bratslav in 1972. He grew up in Tolyatti, where his mother and father worked on the construction of the Volga Automobile Plant. Later his mother worked as a German teacher at a school.After graduating from school in 1989, Anatoliy entered the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute, where he studied in the specialty "electronic computers, systems, complexes and networks". In parallel with his studies at the institute, he was fond of playing the guitar, participated in KVN, played in the national youth theater.He took part in the people's youth theater, but later realized that the specialty he was studying was not for him. Beliy went to Moscow and entered the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (workshop of Nikolai Afonin), which he graduated from in 1995. He did military service in the Theater of the Russian Army.Since 1998 he has been an actor at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre, since 2003 - actor of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov. On September 25, 2015, he opened the theatrical online readings of A. Chekhov's works "Chekhov is Alive".

Anatoliy has been interested in sports since childhood. He is a master of sports in acrobatics and has skills in fencing.

The pseudonym "Beliy" is a translation of the surname from the German name "Weisman" into Russian. He was often credited under the name Weisman.Beliy spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in July 2022 quit the Moscow Art Theatre, left Russia and moved to Israel.