Igor Vladimirovich Starygin was born on June 13, 1946 in Moscow. In 1968 he graduated from GITIS (the State Institute for Theatre Arts). He was an actor of the Moscow Theatre for Young Spectators In 1968-1983, played on stage of the Mossovet Theater in 1974-1983, and worked in the theater At Nikitsky Gate from 1983.
Igor Starygin appeared on cinema screen in 1967, having debuted with the role of Rybochkin in the film Punishment. His first considerable role was Kostya Batishchev in the movie We'll Live Till Monday. The actor's good luck was a negative role in the psychological drama Accused of Murder.
Among the movies featuring Igor Starygin one should mention adventure television movies Aide-de-camp of His Excellency and Frontier, as well as the sci-fi Moon Rainbow after Sergey Pavlov’s novel. The actor gained enormous popularity thanks to his role of Aramis in the film d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich. He came back to this role three times: in Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992), The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993), and The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarini (2009).
In 1992 the actor was awarded the title of the Honored Artiste of Russia. From 1996 he played in the Moscow Gorky Art Academic Theater.
Igor Starygin died on November 8, 2009 and was laid down to rest in the Troyekurovo Cemetery in Moscow.