Recognition came to the actor after the sitcom "Hotel Eleon."
The number of projects somehow related to the name of Pushkin is multiplying. Recently, filming began in the Moscow region for the adventure series "Dubrovsky. Russian Zorro." This will be a hybrid of Pushkin's unfinished novel and the adventures of the Spanish masked hero created by Johnston McCulley.
According to the plot, after long wanderings, Vladimir Dubrovsky (Oleg Haas, in the photo) returns to Russia with a new face and name — Don Diego de la Vega. In his native Kistenyevka and its surroundings, he discovers the tyranny of landowners and marauding bandits. And when his former love Masha reappears in the hero's life, he must enter a dangerous game against the cruel Kirill Petrovich Troekurov.
The series is being filmed for TV-3. Says the channel's general producer and idea author Konstantin Obukhov: "We thought: why not combine two images — Dubrovsky and Zorro? Both are avenging loners ready to fight for the truth. We wanted to create a grand historical attraction, pay tribute to Russian classics, and at the same time allow ourselves bold imagination — to imagine what Dubrovsky's further path could be after the events of the novel. This is a risky step, but such experiments, as experience shows, are particularly interesting to the audience — just remember the iconic project 'Gogol' with Alexander Petrov."
Oleg Haas was born in Nizhnevartovsk in 1994 and later moved with his parents to Omsk. In school, Oleg attended a math class and did not think about an acting career until the 9th grade when, while resting at a summer camp, he participated in a theatrical and concert club and, in his words, "got infected with the stage, feeling that it was his life's work."
However, when the young man returned from camp and shared his plans with his parents, he faced their misunderstanding. His mother wanted him to dedicate himself to plastic surgery, while his father insisted on an economic education and further work in the promising banking sector.
Oleg Haas: "My dad is actually from Siberia, from a village, a real Russian man... About the acting profession... it was not even worth mentioning. 'What kind of actor are you? Are you going to play the accordion in the subway?' — that's how he was... Only when I started acting in films did his attitude change a bit for the better."
As a result, after finishing school, Oleg moved to St. Petersburg, where he submitted documents to an engineering and economics university.
While preparing for the entrance exams, he accidentally saw an announcement about recruitment to the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts and decided to try his luck. His performance at the first showcase left such an impression on the future teachers that he was admitted to SPbGATI without a competition, without additional exams. This determined his fate: he withdrew his documents from INZHEKON and went to study acting. Oleg joined the workshop of Arvid Mikhailovich Zelanda.
Graduating from SPbGATI with honors in 2015, Oleg received an invitation to participate in the play "Leha" based on a play by Yulia Pospelova at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. He arrived at his debut performance at the theater on one leg — his heel had become inflamed, but this did not prevent him from performing flawlessly. Later, doctors discovered inflammation and immediately performed surgery, ordering Haas not to get out of bed for two months, and he was accepted into the theater troupe as an intern. Oleg was officially employed at the theater after the production of "Northern Wind" with Renata Litvinova.
His first role in film was in the series "Letters on Glass." His first leading role was in the film "Complete Transformation." Initially, the film was conceived by the directors as a science fiction drama, but later the budget was significantly cut, so the screenwriters reworked the plot into a comedy. Thus, the actor auditioned for a brutal and masculine hero, but ultimately transformed into the unsuccessful salesman Dmitry Shakhmatov.
Recognition came to the actor after the sitcom "Hotel Eleon," a spin-off of the popular comedy series "Kitchen," where Haas played the role of bartender Yura, and the series "Rugby," for which the actor had to train for more than a month with professional players from CSKA and master the rules of the game perfectly. But true fame came from the leading role in the series "Bodyguards," which aired on the TNT channel in 2023. Oleg plays one of three boxer friends who, due to being cut off from big sports, are forced to take on side jobs for a wealthy lawyer. The romantic line of Oleg Haas's character with the character played by actress Kristina Kucherenko, shown in the series, turned out to be so bright that popular rapper ST invited the couple, staying true to their on-screen characters, to play lovers in his new music video for the song "For Beautiful Eyes."
