Biography

Nikolay Grinko was born on May 22, 1920 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979) and The Mirror (1975). He died on April 10, 1989 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].

Worked with 2 greatest post WW2 Soviet masters: Sergei Parajanov and Andrei Tarkovsky; he was in former's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and latter's "Mirror", both films are featured in Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) in a poetic chapter on the friendship of Tarkovsky and Paradjanov.