Andrei Mironov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Andrei Alexandrovich graduated from the Moscow Shchukin School in 1962, (under the course of I.M. Rapoport and A.I. Borisov) and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Satire Theatre, where he performed dozens of roles on stage and directed various productions. Mironov was a creator of both comedic and dramatic characters in cinema, appearing in films such as: "The Diamond Arm", "Property of the Republic", "The Straw Hat", "The Twelve Chairs", "An Ordinary Miracle", "My Friend Ivan Lapshin", "A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines", and others.