Aleksandr Ilin was born on 8 May 1952 in Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR [now Yekaterinburg, Russia]. He is an actor, known for Russkiy bunt (2000), Delo o 'Myortvykh dushakh' (2005) and Cherchill (2010). He is married to Tatyana Maksakova. They have two children. He was previously married to Svetlana Ilina.