Know who is Volodymyr Zelanskyy? The comedian turned president of Ukraine!

Volodymyr Zelanskyy is the 6th president of Ukraine serving since 2019, he was an actor and comedian. Here is everything about Volodymyr.

Volodymyr Zelanskyy is currently the president of Ukraine. He is serving as the president of Ukraine since 20th May 2019. He was born on 25th January 1978. Oleksandr Zelenskyy and Rymma Zelenska are his parents. At the age of 16, he passed the test for English as a foreign language and received an education grant to study in Israel where his father denied to send him. He continues his studies and later earned a law degree from Kyiv National Economic University. At the age of 17, he joined a local comedy competition team and soon joined the united Ukraine team and won the league in 1997.

Volodymyr pursued comedy and created a production company named ‘Kvartal 95’. The company produces films, cartoons and TV shows too. ‘Servant of the People’ is one of the TV shows from his production company in which he played the role of the president of Ukraine. The show ‘Servant of the people’ aired from 2015 to 2019 was extremely popular. A political party having the same name as the television show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95. He also produced a  comedy series ‘Svaty’ which got banned for display on the territory of Ukraine in 2017.

In 2008, Volodymyr starred in the feature film Love in the Big City and its sequel, Love in the Big City 2. He continued his movie career with the film, ‘Office Romance. Our Time’ in 2011 and ‘Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon’ in 2012. ‘Love in The Big City 3’ was released in 2014. He also played the leading role in the 2012 film 8 First Dates and in sequels which were produced in 2015 and 2016.

Volodymyr announced his candidacy for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election on 31st December 2018 and won the election with a 73.2% vote in the second round defeating Poroshenko. He is identified as an anti-establishment, anti-corruption figure.