Laertes — Hamlet Character Profile

About Laertes

The passionate son of Polonius who returns to Denmark seeking vengeance for his father's death, becoming a pawn in Claudius's plot against Hamlet.

Character Facts

Played by

Stepan Oleksenko

Appears in

Hamlet (1964)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Hamlet

• Hamlet (Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy)
• Ophelia (Anastasiya Vertinskaya)
• Claudius (Mikhail Nazvanov)
• Gertrude (Elza Radziņa)
• Priest (Ants Lauter)
• Polonius (Yuriy Tolubeev)
• Rosencrantz (Igor Dmitriev)
• Gravedigger (Viktor Kolpakov)
• First actor (Aleksandr Chekayevsky)
• Guildenstern (Vadim Medvedev)
• Horatio (Vladimir Erenberg)
• Ghost of Hamlet's Father (Grigoriy Gay)