In 1987 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School course of Vladimir Bogomolov He began his acting career after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School in the Sovremennik2 theater studio created on the basis of his course For three years he worked in the United States as a teacher of the Stanislavsky system Returning in 1996 he organized his own theater Factory of theatrical events In the twentieth Hollywood film about James Bond he played the Russian inventor Vlad Popov Die Another Day