Volodymyr Yamnenko is a Ukrainian actor, director and screenwriter. He was born on 7 December 1959 in Kyiv's Podil district, in the family of a factory chief engineer, and has lived in Kurenivka all his life. He trained as an actor at the Karpenko-Kary institute in Kyiv. After graduating he joined Vitaliy Malakhov's estrada theatre and later became an actor of the Grotesk theatre. On television he is known as a regular participant of the show Zolotyj husak.
He has been in films since the 1990s, but wider fame came with his role as Kocha in Wild Field (2018) and as Pavlo in Grey Bees (2024), adapted from Andriy Kurkov's novel. For Wild Field he won a Golden Dzyga for Best Supporting Actor. Grey Bees premiered in Rotterdam, took the Golden Duc in Odesa and opened in Ukrainian cinemas on 23 October 2025. Besides acting he directed the film Katarzis (2008) and wrote its screenplay.
The drama Grey Bees, based on Andriy Kurkov's novel, opened in Ukrainian cinemas. Yamnenko plays Pavlo, one of two childhood rivals left in the grey zone of Donbas.
