Boris Galkin

Boris Sergeevich Galkin (born September 19, 1947, Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director of theater and cinema, screenwriter, producer, composer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1999).

Born September 19, 1947 in Leningrad in the family of a worker Sergei Mikhailovich Galkin (1911-1985) and serving Svetlana Georgievna Galkina (1924-2006). Father's father died in the Great Patriotic War. Grandmother by father, Anna Mikhailovna Galkina, lived 95 years.

In 1969 he graduated from the Shchukin Theater School. From 1971 to 1977 he worked as an actor and director in Moscow and Novgorod theaters, including an actor at the Moscow Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka.