His father, actor Gennadi Nilov,[2] the audience remembered one of the main roles in the famous Soviet comedy film Three Plus Two – the role of the chemist Stepan Ivanovich Sundukov and Major Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union – drama Anna Karamazoff.
In 1985, Nilov Jr. graduated from the acting department Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.
[2] Alexey Nilov first appeared on the silver screen at the age of four-plus years in the Soviet feature film, a fairy tale Snegurocka [ru] (1968), his great-grandfather, directed by Pavel Kadochnikov.
[4] The same film was shot and his father Alexey small, actor Gennadi Nilov.
[4][5] The widespread popularity of the actor brought one of the main roles (Andrey Larin, a police captain) in the television series Streets of Broken Lights (1997–2004, from the 1st to the 5th season).