Boris Olenin was born on December 12, 1903 in Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire as Boris Yulevich Girshman. He was an actor, known for Admiral Nakhimov (1947), Pokhozhdeniya Nasreddina (1947) and Boyevoy kinosbornik 13: Nashi devushki (1942). He died on March 27, 1961 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.