His roles included the village fool in Brothers and Sisters by Fedor Abramov, convict Fedka in The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jack Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the murderer Roberto Zukko in the play of the same name.

[1][2] In Alexander Surikov's comedy Children of Monday (1998), the actor played an atypical image of a drunk businessman Mitya.

In 2000, Igor Sklyar acted as Commissioner Yakovlev in the film Gleb Panfilov's The Romanovs: An Imperial Family.

[1] Starred in the films: Townspeople (1976), Only in the Music Hall (1980), Take Care of Women (1981), Anna Pavlova (1983), Hourglass (1984), Battalions Ask for Fire (1985), Maritsa (1985), The Feat of Odessa (1985), Start First (1986), The Victims Have No Claims (1986), The Journey of Monsieur Perrychon (1987), The Frenchman (1988), The Prisoner of Château d'If (1989), The Imitator (1990), Tartuffe (1992), The Year of the Dog (1994), The Investigators: Ten Years After (2002), Red Sky, Black Snow (2002), Ratatouille (2006), Hooked on the Game (2009), Robinson (2010), Courier from Paradise (2013), Dreams (2013), Hammer (2016), About the Faith (2016).

[1] In recent years has been actively playing in TV series - Moscow Saga (2004), The Chess Player (2004), The Fall of the Empire (2005), The First Circle (2006), The Summer of the Wolves (2011) (2011), Underground Transition (2012), Sherlock Holmes (2013), Farmer (2013), Outgoing Nature (2013), Teach me to live (2016), Family Album (2016), Excellence (2017).