Act of VALOUR

The Ukrainian President's journey from performer to politician

- CAREN CLARK, TESS LAMACRAFT, IAN MACEWAN, JOANNE LEWIS

This three-part series charts the extraordinary journey of Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian and actor who was the voice of the Ukrainian Paddington Bear and winner of Dancing with the Stars before his election as President of Ukraine in 2019, aged 41.

Featuring exclusive interviews, archive footage and access to Zelensky, his wife Olena, childhood friends and politicians including Boris Johnson, it revisits the 46-year-old’s early career as a performer on TV and recounts how he went on to become one of the most-recognisable leaders on the planet, presiding over a nation at war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.