Illya Konstantin

Illya Konstantin (born on 22 February 1984) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor. He started his professional career when he was five years old doing radio ads and voice-overs for public service advertisements. He trained in classical ballet and acting, studying with Tom Todoroff, John Boylan of the Centre for the Arts, David Rotenberg, Dean Armstrong at the Armstrong Acting Studio, and has studied the Alexander Technique with Graeme Lynn, and improv at Second City.
He is known in Toronto for his stage performances, most recently as The Listener, in the North American debut of Carla Faour’s play The Art Of Listening in 2009 at the Toronto Fringe Festival, nominated for the prestigious Shell Award in Brazil. He performed two seasons in a Shakespeare Festival, Bard in the Park as Ferdinand in The Tempest and Sebastian in Twelfth Night. In the Pivotal Arts Festival, which showcases emerging Toronto artists and playwrights, he played Nater in Rhonda’s Revolving Restaurant and Michael in Sally Clark’s award-winning play, Lost Souls and Missing Persons.
He was nominated as best actor in a drama at the Montreal Young Cuts Film Festival in 2008 in the Norman Jewison Filmmaker Award-winning short Assault. Nominated for numerous awards, the film was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and has been seen at the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, in England, the Kinoteatr Festival in Russia, and the Austin Film Festival in Texas. Illya played a young man suffering the moral, legal and family consequences following his arrest, irrevocably changing the course of his life. The Montreal Gazettesaid, “Assault ….features Illya Konstantin in one of the most naturalistic and nuanced performances I've seen this year.”
He played the Ill-Kid on The Comedy Network’s hit show, [http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/keys-to-the-vip/#clip268443 Keys To the VIP]. In 2009 he performed the role of Derek on the CBS/Paramount television pilot Back with Skeet Ulrich and Sherry Stringfield, directed by Mark Pellington.
In October 2009, Illya performed the role Stephen in Israel Horovitz’s Line - the longest running off Broadway play with the in New York City. He played John, a newly-married man dealing with a horrific accident and the traumatic consequences that occur in the soon to be released film Reverie, filmed in New York by director, Samuel Gonzalez, Jr. He completed two other films in New York, Contention and How Much Longer?

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