Actor director screenwriter producer In 1980 he graduated from the acting department of GITIS named after Lunacharsky Tabakovs workshop He worked in various Moscow theaters Sovremennik a studio theater under the direction of Tabakov In 1991 he staged the play The Inspector General receiving the STD prize for the best performance of the year In the same year he organized a private film company At one time he worked as the chief director of the Theater under the leadership of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan As a director he shot several television series He was married to the popular theater and cinema actress Irina Metlitskaya They had two sons Nikita and Pyotr