Background
Smolyakov was born on November 24, 1958 in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union as Andrey Igorevich Smolyakov.
Smolyakov was born on November 24, 1958 in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union as Andrey Igorevich Smolyakov.
Foreign three years he studied at Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, but switched. In 1980 he graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts in a workshop under supervision of Oleg Tabakov.
He is known for Vysotskiy. Spasibo, chto zhivoy (2011), Stalingrad (2013 film), and Forbidden Empire. After graduation, he started working as actor on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre.
In 1984-1986 he was associated with the theater "Satirikon".
In 1987 he joined the Moscow Studio Theatre Oleg Tabakov. In 2004 he remarried to fashion designer Daria Razumikhin.
Smolyakov made his debut in the film "Kiss Dawns" (1977). He played the title role in the playwright "Farewell, Mowgli!" based on Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
Thank You Foreign Being Alive", as Viktor Bekhteev, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Colonel in Uzbekistan, a drama film about Vladimir Vysotsky.
The new Russian series "Grigorii R", directed by Andrey Malyukov, began on Russian television Monday 27 October 2014. With Vladimir Mashkov as Grigori Rasputin and Smolyakov as the investigator Smitten.