Nikolai Brilling was born on May 16, 1920 in Krivoy Rog, Ukrainian SSR [now Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for
Othello (1956),
Konets operatsii Rezident (1986) and
1812 (1944). He died on December 7, 1988 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].