Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Actor / Executive / Producer

Birthdate – August 30, 1934 (90 Years Old)

Birthplace – Bogorodsk, Bogorodskiy rayon, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]

The famous Russian actor was discovered by Andrei Tarkovsky. He was looking for an actor to play the part of Andrei Rublev for his second full-length film and accidentally found the completely unknown Solonitsyn in Chelyabinsk. He worked there as an amateur actor. After Andrei Rublev, he played main parts in many of Russia’s best movies.