Education
Mironov studied in the Vakhtangov Theatre School during the early 1950s. From 1958 to 1962, he studied acting at the Moscow Shchukin School.
Mironov studied in the Vakhtangov Theatre School during the early 1950s. From 1958 to 1962, he studied acting at the Moscow Shchukin School.
Mironov was also a popular singer. Andrei Mironov"s parents, Alexander Menaker and Maria Vladimirovna Mironova, were known nationwide as a comedic duo. In 1961, he acted in his first film What If This Is Love? Andrei Mironov is known and loved for his roles in films made by Eldar Ryazanov, Leonid Gaidai, Mark Zakharov, and other directors.
On one of his tours through Latvia in 1987, he lost consciousness while performing the lead role in The Marriage of Figaro.
He was driven to a hospital where two days later he was pronounced dead. The cause of his death was excessive internal bleeding due to a congenital cerebral aneurysm.
Andrei Mironov was married twice. First to Yekaterina Gradova, with whom he had one daughter, Maria Mironova, and second to Larisa Golubkina, a singer and actress best known for her role of the hussar maiden in Hussar Ballad.
A minor planet 3624 Mironov, discovered by Soviet astronomers Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina and Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1982 is named after him.
From June 18, 1962 to 1987 Mironov was a permanent member of the trope at the Moscow Theatre of Satire. He had a wide comedic range and played diverse roles (eg a Soviet bureaucrat, Figaro, a romantic spy, a member of the Russian intelligentsia, a con man, an American movie pioneer, a tale-teller, etc).