Born on July 22, 1962 in Dedovsk, Moscow Region.
First appeared on screen in 1971 in a small episode of the film "Translation from English".
The second role was already the main one - the tomboy Huck in the film by Georgy Daneliya "Completely Lost" (based on the novel by Mark Twain "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", 1973).
By the time he graduated from school, he had already starred in ten films, and in three of them ("Completely Lost", "Spring Reversals", "It's All About the Brother") he played the leading roles.
Then he entered the State Institute of Theatre Arts named after A.V. Lunacharsky (RATI) (head of the workshop - O. Ya. Remez).
As a student, he already played at the Moscow Mayakovsky Theatre with Andrei Alexandrovich Goncharov in the fairy tale "Ivan Tsarevich".
After successfully graduating from GITIS in 1984, he was immediately enrolled in the staff of the Moscow Mayakovsky Theatre, where he worked for more than 20 years.
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1995).
