Petro Mikhnevych was a Ukrainian theater and cinema actor. He finished the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in Kyiv in 1925, and during 1926-1931 he worked in the Ivan Franko Theatre in Kyiv. Later, he worked a the Kharkiv Revolutionary Theatre and the Chernivtsi Theatre. In 1954 was his film debut in the the film "Zemlya" (Earth).