Boris Romanov was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He was born in Lyubim on March 29, 1942.
From 1959 to 1961, he studied at the theater studio attached to the Saratov Drama Theatre and made his professional stage debut at the age of 17. He later studied at the Moscow Art Theatre studio under Pilavskaya and Karev, graduating in 1966.
Romanov acted at the Moscow Stanislavsky Drama Theatre from 1966 to 1982 and at the Taganka Theatre from 1982 to 1985. From 1990, he was an actor at Moscow’s Hermitage Theatre. His stage roles included Lars in Serso and parts in productions of Feast During the Plague: Fragments.
He appeared in films and television productions from 1964 through 2023. His screen work included Beethoven’s Life, The Wild Hunt of King Stakh, The Planet Parade, The Queen of Spades, Doctor Zhivago, In the First Circle, and The Heart of Parma. He was named Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1994 and People’s Artist of the Russian Federation in 2004.