Honored Artist of the RSFSR (11/16/1989). People's Artist of Russia (09/25/2000). Graduated from school with a gold medal. In 1967 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a degree in "Physics of Fast Processes." For two years he worked as a senior engineer at the Institute of Geochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was an active participant in amateur performances, skits, and KVN in 1962-63. From 1964 he was a leading actor of the Moscow State University student theater "Our House." In 1969, after the theater closed, he joined Lyubimov's troupe at the Taganka Theater.

In 1970 he entered the B. V. Shchukin Theater School, from which he graduated as an actor (in 1977) and director, while continuing to work in variety and film. In 1975 he moved to the Academic Theater named after Evg. Vakhtangov. Since 1995 the artist has worked on contracts in various Moscow theaters. Since 1996 he has been the head of the theater "Mono-Duet-Trio" at Mosconcert.