Born on August 1, 1972 in Bratslav, Nemirovsky district, Vinnitsa region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.
Honored Artist of Russia (2006).
Father is an engineer, mother is a German teacher. After graduating from school, he studied at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute.
He was fond of the guitar, participated in KVNs, played in the national youth theater.
Then he went to Moscow, where he immediately entered the Shchepkinskoe school (workshop of N. Afonin and L. Novikova), which he graduated in 1995.
He did his military service at the Army Theatre.
Since 1998 he has been an actor at the Stanislavsky Theatre.
In 2003-2022 in the troupe of the Art Theater.
A few days after February 24, 2022, Anatoli Biely publicly condemned the war in Ukraine, resigned from his theater and soon after left Russia to go to Israel.