Kirill Alekseevich Polukhin (Russian: Кирилл Алексеевич Полухин; born 3 May 1969) is a Soviet and Russian film, stage, and television actor.^[1][2]

Polukhin was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).

Polukhin was the only family member who had any relation to the arts: his father was a doctor and his mother was an economist.^[3] Polukhin worked in an acting studio owned by Zinovy Korogodsky.^[4]

In 1999, he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (course of Andrei Tolubeyev). In the same year, he joined the troupe of Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.^[3]

Due to his appearance, Polukhin is mainly cast in antagonist roles.^[5]

Kirill Polukhin is married to an actress Svetlana Strogova and has a son, Innokenty (born in 1998).^[3][4]

• Secrets of Investigation (2002) as investigator of prosecutor's office
• Streets of Broken Lights (2005) as Samsonov
• The Fall of the Empire (2005) as soldat
• The Priest (2009) as partisan
• The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (2010) as Grigory Kotovsky
• The Alien Girl (2010) as Kid
• Home (2011) as Senior
• Alien District (2011) as Igor Svistunov
• The Major (2013) as Kolya Burlakov
• The Fool (2014) as Matyugin
• Leningrad 46 (2014) as Stepan Zavyalov
• The Method (2014) as Sedoy, a detective
• Battalion (2015) as Zobov
• Ivan (2016) as Ivan^[6]
• Raid (2017) as episode
• The Age of Pioneers (2017) as part commander
• Gogol. Viy (2018) as Basavryuk
• The Factory (2018) as Andreich
• Better than Us (2018) as Pavel Varlamov
• Dead Lake (2019) as Smertin
• The Balkan Line (2019) as Barmin^[7]
• The Method (2020) as detective
• Streltsov (2020) as an officer in prison
• A Fairy Tale for the Old (2022) as shooter