Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
Meslek:Oyunculuk
Doğum:1951-01-24 (75 yaşında)
Doğum Yeri:Odesa, Ukraine
Film Sayısı:16
Dizi Sayısı:10
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis (Russian: Яков Наумович Похис; born 24 January 1951), better known as Yakov Smirnoff (Russian: Яков Смирнов; /ˈsmɪərnɒf/), is a Ukrainian-American comedian, actor and writer of Jewish origin. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Ukraine, then immigrated to the United States in 1977 in order to pursue an American show business career, not yet knowing any English. He reached his biggest success in the mid-to-late 1980s, appearing in several films and the television sitcom vehicle What a Country!. His comic persona was of a naive immigrant from the Soviet Union who...
