Nikolai Grinko

Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko (Микола Григорович Гринько; Никола́й Григо́рьевич Гринько́; May 22, 1920, Kherson – April 10, 1989, Kiev ) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor.

He is well known for his roles in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rubliov, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker. He starred in the 1981 film Teheran 43.

His wife is Ayshe Rafetovna Chulak-ogly (born 1932), a violinist of the State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian SSR, a jazz-symphonic ensemble Dnepr. Nikolai Grinko did not have any children.

Selected filmography

 * Peace to Him Who Enters (1961)
 * Ivan's Childhood (1962)
 * Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
 * Andrei Rublev (1966)
 * War and Peace (1966-1967)
 * Dangerous Tour (1969)
 * Solaris (1972)
 * Adventures in a City that does not Exist (1974)
 * A Lover's Romance (1974)
 * Afonya (1974)
 * Twenty Days Without War (1976)
 * The Adventures of Buratino (1976)
 * The Bodyguard (1979)
 * The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979)
 * Stalker (1979)
 * The Youth of Peter the Great (1980)
 * At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1980)
 * Teheran 43 (1981)
 * Be my husband (1982)