Valentin Smirnitskiy was born on 10 June 1944 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009), D'artagnan and Three Musketeers (1979) and The Loop (2015). He has been married to Lidiya Ryabtseva since 2003. He was previously married to Lyudmila Pashkova, Elena Shaporina and Irina Kovalenko.