EXCLUSIVE: Chicago P.D. and The Unit character Yuri Rutman has signed pinch world agency Dry Blue.
The actor, shaper and head will beryllium represented by Rebecka Johnston retired of Dry Blue’s caller agency successful Budapest, Hungary.
“Yuri represents nan benignant of globally-minded imaginative we are excited to champion,” said Johnston. “He is not only an character but a storyteller pinch imagination — personification who understands some nan imaginative and entrepreneurial sides of this industry.
“Yuri is a multi-faceted and talented on-camera performer. As a autochthonal English speaker and multilingual successful Russian, his imaginative imagination and scope make him a cleanable customer for Dry Blue’s expanding world presence.”
Rutman precocious wrote, directed and starred successful short movie Trained, which was acquired by Shorts.TV, nan streaming level that each twelvemonth presents Academy Award-nominated short films.
Born successful Ukraine and raised successful Chicago, Rutman spent galore years successful L.A. earlier much precocious relocating to Budapest. He is presently processing his adjacent project, The Violinist, which is being billed as an epic Ukrainian-Jewish migrant crime play group successful Chicago.
“Budapest is quickly becoming 1 of nan astir breathtaking places successful nan world for movie and television,” he said. “I’m honored to subordinate Dry Blue astatine this pivotal infinitesimal and look guardant to expanding my activity internationally.”
Dry Blue has offices successful offices successful nan UK, France, Italy, and nan U.S., and is now opening its Hungarian base, arsenic it hopes to position Budapest arsenic a “key gateway betwixt European accumulation centers and Hollywood.”
The agency was founded by Thomas Philip Brunney and Nicholas Brunney successful London, and has a roster of much than 500 clients, pinch its world clients including Joseph Baena, William McNamara, Sharni Vinson, and Langston Fishburne.”