He graduated from GITIS in 1977 (Goncharov workshop). He worked at the Mayakovsky Theater, at the Moscow Regional Drama Theater, at the Ostrovsky Moscow Regional Drama Theater. Since 1994 - in the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky. Father - People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the RSFSR Vladimir Yakovlevich Samoilov. Mother - artist of the Mayakovsky Theater Nadezhda Samoilova. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997).