Roman Kartsev was born on May 20, 1939 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine] as Roman Anshelevich Kats. He was an actor, known for Master i Margarita (2005), Predskazaniye (1993) and The Drayman and the King (1989). He was married to Viktoria Kassinskaya. He died on October 2, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.