Born on September 2, 1944 in Moscow. In 1967 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He worked as a senior engineer at the Institute of Geochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He played in the variety studio of Moscow State University "Our House", worked at the Taganka Theater.
In 1974 he graduated from the Shchukin Theater School (workshop of V. Eufer, A. Remizov).
In 1975-1990 he worked at the Theater. Vakhtangov.
Since 1996 artistic director of the Mono-Duo-Trio theater.
People's Artist of Russia (2000).