Background
Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem).
Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem).
In 1922 he graduated from the Vorovsky Drama Studio.
People"s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (23 October 1963). Today the village is part of the Ivanopil rural community in Kostiantynivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast. Khvylya worked in the Zankovetska Music-Drama Theater in 1924 - 1926, then in Berezil that just relocated to Kharkiv from Kiev.
From 1934 and until the German aggression worked in the Kharkiv Drama Theater of Shevchenko.
Later Khvylia relocated to Moscow where he worked in the State theater of a cinema-actor.