Garry Kasparov

Known for

Acting

Born

April 13, 1963 (age 63)

Birthplace

Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]

Biography

Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist. From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 255 months overall for his career.

Best known work

The Colbert Report

2005

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003

Bobby Fischer Against the World

2011

History 101

2020

Queen of Chess

2026

Late Night with David Letterman

1982

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

2024

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

2003

Putin Forever?

2016

Skavlan

2009

Filmography

2026
Queen of Chess
as Self
2025
King's Gambit
as Self
2024
Kasparov: Chess Rebel
as Self - Chess Grandmaster (archive footage)
2024
Can Creativity Save the World?
as Self
2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold WarTV
as Self - Russian Chess Grandmaster (1 episode)
2022
Two Men at War
as Self
2022
Piers Morgan UncensoredTV
as Self (1 episode)
2020
History 101TV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2018
Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin
as self
2018
Firing Line with Margaret HooverTV
2018
More Human Than Human
as Self
2016
Putin Forever?
as Self
2014
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
as Self (uncredited)
2014
Karpov Kasparov - Two Kings for a Crown
as Self
2013
Album 61
as Self
2012
Garry
as Garry Kasparov
2012
Winter, Go Away!
as Self
2011
Putin's Kiss
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Bobby Fischer Against the World
as Self
2011
Chess History
as self
2009
SkavlanTV
as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2009
The Revolution That Wasn't
as Self
2007
WintergastenTV
2005
The Colbert ReportTV
2005
The Prince of Chess
as Self