Akhtem Seitablaev(Akhtem Shevket oglu Seitablaev; born December 11, 1972, Yangiyul) - Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar film actor, theater and film director, screenwriter, Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Host of the project "Brave Hearts" on the TV channel "1 + 1".
Born in the city of Yangiyul, near Tashkent on December 11, 1972. After graduating from school in 1989, he moved with his family from Uzbekistan to the Crimea, where in 1992 he graduated from the acting department of the Crimean cultural and educational school (course of A. Zhukova). In 1999 - graduated from the department of directing and dramaturgy of the Kiev State Institute of Theater Arts. Karpenko-Kary (course of G. Kononenko).
From 1992 to 2004, he worked at the Simferopol State Crimean Tatar Academic Music and Drama Theatre, as a director staged the performances My Love Elektra (based on the play by the Hungarian playwright Laszlo Durko), Forest Song by Lesia Ukrainka, Bravo, Amadeo! (based on the tragedy of Alexander Pushkin), as well as his thesis based on Pushkin's The Fountain of Bakhchisarai.
2003 - made his debut in cinema, playing a role in the Ukrainian drama film by Oles Sanin "Mamai", and was the second director. As a second director, he also worked on the films "Mamai", "Tatar Triptych", on television (TV channel "Pro-TB").
In 2007 he made his debut as a director, the first work was the television tape Quartet for Two.
Since 2005 he has been working at the Drama and Comedy Theater on the left bank of the Dnieper.
On February 25, 2022, in the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he enrolled in the ranks of the territorial defense of the city of Kyiv.
