Andrey Smolyakov was born in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, in 1958. He studied for three years at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute before graduating in 1980 from the State Institute of Theatre Arts and beginning his acting career on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre. Between 1984 and 1986, he worked with the Satyricon Theatre, and in 1987 joined the Oleg Tabakov Studio Theatre in Moscow. Smolyakov made his big screen debut in 1978, and has since appeared in more than 80 films, working with many of Russia’s leading directors. Notable credits include “Daddy” (Vladimir Mashkov, 2004), “Escape” (Egor Konchalovsky, 2005), “Stalingrad” (Fedor Bondarchuk, 2013), and “Viking” (Andrey Kravchuk, 2016).
No Goodbyes
2018
Viking
2016
Fire
2020
Mira
2022
Three Seconds
2017
The Return to A
2011
Champions
2014
Angelica's Passion
1993
I Am a Teacher
2017
The Coach
2018
Motherland
2015
The Factory
2018
Funeral on the Second Floor
1991
Brass Band
1983
At the End of the Night
1988
Stalingrad: Film 1
1990
Close Afar
1979
Obstacle Course
1984
Father Sergius
1978
The Fragile Thing
1999
Gipsy Happiness
1981
Road Companion
1987
Volchok
2025
Star
2014
Forbidden Empire
2014
Dawns Are Kissing
1978
Vladimir Dubrovsky: The Noble Robber
1990
Here's to You and Us!
2023
Forsaken
2018
The Recruiter
1990
New Year, I Love You!
2019
Moth Games
2004
Tins
2007
Courier from 'Paradise'
2013
Still Waters
2000
Hamilton
1998
Antikiller 2: Antiterror
2003
Tribunal
1995
Rowing for Gold
2025