Leonid Kuravlyov was a Soviet and Russian film and voice actor and television host. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (26.11.1965). People's Artist of the RSFSR (7.01.1977). In early childhood he lost his father, and in 1941 his mother was exiled to the North on a false charge, where they lived for several difficult years. In 1960 he graduated from the acting department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, Boris Bibikov's workshop. He made his film debut as a student, playing the sapper soldier Morozov in Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Gordon's film "There Will Be No Leave Today..." (1958). In parallel, the aspiring actor appeared in Vasily Shukshin's graduation work "Report from Lebyazhye" and in Mikhail Shveitser's adventure film "Midshipman Panin" (both films in 1960). From 1960 to 1992 he was an actor at the Theater-Studio of Film Actors.

He took part in the television program "White Parrot". In 1998-2000 he hosted the program "The World of Books with Leonid Kuravlyov" on the RTR television channel, in which he talked about new books. In 2014, on the NTV television channel, in the program "New Russian Sensations", a 44-minute feature "Leonid Kuravlyov. I Am Leaving" was shown. From 1958 to 2015 he appeared in almost 200 films and series. Prizes and awards: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (29.12.2012). Order of the Badge of Honor. Special prize "For Creative Contribution to Russian Cinematography" – 1999, at the "Vivat Cinema of Russia!" film festival in Saint Petersburg. In 2006 he was awarded the Highest Russian Public Award – the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky "For Labors and the Fatherland".