Aleksey Guskov was born on May 20, 1958 in Brzeg, Poland. Best known to the Western public for starring in Golden Globe nominated French film "Concert" 2009, Aleksei Guskov played more than 70 roles in cinema and TV. He gained an enormous popularity in Russia after the broadcast of a series titled "The Border; Taiga's Romance" (2001). Russians also admire his role in "The Garbage Man," (2002), a philosophical saga about a former killer who works as a waste collector in a small provincial town. In 2011 Guskov played the role of Maco in "Italian movies" directed by Italian Matteo Pellegrini. In 2013 he has been selected to play the Pope John Paul II in a new Italian TV fiction film "The secret life of Pope Wojtyla". He is also starring in French movies "L'Idéal" by Frédéric Beigbeder and "Polina" by Angelin Preljocaj and Valérie Müller.