Yakov Tkachenko was born on February 2, 1979 in the city of Dnipro (then Dnipropetrovsk). As a child he dreamed of becoming a doctor as his mother, but fate was different. At the age of 14, Jacob accidentally got to the National Theater and this determined his further path. After graduating from school in 1996, Jacob entered the Dnipropetrovsk Theater College in the specialty of Drama Actor. After graduation, he was invited to the Dnipropetrovsk Academic Theater of Russian Drama. M. Gorky. (Now the Dnieper Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy) In 2011, Yakov Tkachenko joined the KNUTKit them. IK Karpenko-Karohode studies drama directing. He started acting in cinema since 2003, and since 2016, with the heyday of Ukrainian cinema, he begins to actively star in feature films and series. In 2018, he was nominated for a Ukrainian national film award as the best supporting actor for the role of Slavic in the film Allowed dir. Arkady Nefitaluk.