Hristo Shopov
HRISTO NAUMOV SHOPOV is the scion of one of Bulgaria's leading film families, the son of popular actor Naum Shopov, who has hundreds of credits dating back to the late 1950s. Since making his own debut in 1981, in Dishay, choveche (Breathe, Little Man!, 1981),
Hristo Shopov has become one of the country's most successful actors in films like Lyudmil Todorov's Lyubovnoto Lyato no edin Lyokhman (Love-Summer of a Schlep, 1990) and lancho lanchev's Requisite (2000), while also appearing regularly in lowbudget American movies filmed on location in Eastern Europe, such as Octopus (2000), Mindstorm (2000), Interceptor Force 2 (2002) and Alien Hunter (2003). He was seen most recently on American theater screens in
Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone (2002), a fact-based Holocaust drama, with
David Arquette,
Steve Buscemi, and
Harvey Keitel.
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