Born May 28, 1962 in Novosibirsk, grew up in the city of Kemerovo. In Kemerovo he graduated from the directing department of the Institute of Culture. For some time the actor worked at the Minusinsk Theater. In 1990 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School (workshop of Alexander Kalyagin) and became an actor of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. Among his stage works are "Three Sisters" (Salty), "The Miserly Knight", "Marriage", the performance of the Tabakov Theater-Studio "Deadly Number",