Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov (Russian: Леонид Алексеевич Филатов, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit əlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ fʲɪˈlatəf] ⓘ; 24 December 1946 – 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, pamphleteer, who shot to fame while a member of the troupe of the Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov.

Despite severe illness that haunted him in the 1990s, he received many awards, including the Russian Federation State Prize and People's Artist of Russia in 1996.

After finishing school, he arrived in Moscow in 1965, and tried to become a film director, but failed the entrance exam at the State Institute of Cinematography VGIK.

His career developed with roles in The Master and Margarita, The Cherry Orchard, The House on the Embankment, Fasten Your Seatbelts, Pugachev, Antiworlds, Comrade, Believe, the role of Horatio in Hamlet, Kul'chitskiy in The Fallen and Living, Federzoni in Life of Galileo, and Players-21 (a work with (Sergey Yursky's creative association of artists).

His most important roles were in such films as City of First Love, Air Crew, The Voice, Women Joke in Earnest, The Rooks, Success, Chicherin, Forgotten Melody for a Flute, Zerograd, and Charity Ball.