Vitaliy Ilin was born on March 19, 1945 in Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR as Vitaliy Nukhimovich Shapiro. He was an actor, known for Priklyucheniya printsa Florizelya (1979), Tulipää (1980) and 20-e dekabrya (1982). He died on December 15, 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia.