As a child, he played the co-lead in television series The Old Fortress, feature film The Boys and Hurray for the Holidays, before studying a four year course in acting and stage direction at Moscow State Institute of Drama (GETES), where he received his Diploma in 1977.
[1] While studying, met and then married a West German exchange student and moved to Germany in 1978.
He has also appeared on Australian television series, Skyways, The Sullivans, Cop Shop and Carson's Law[3] and the UKTV mini-series False Witness.
He has also appeared in the films Sky Pirates (1986), The Still Point (1986), Holidays on the River Yarra (1991) and He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001).
[4] He was a member of the Anthill Theatre ensemble in Melbourne in the 1980s, and went on to perform in MTC productions such as The Visit alongside Zoe Caldwell and Cyrano de Bergerac opposite David Wenham.