Sklyar was born on 18 December 1957 in Kursk in a family of engineers. In childhood he studied at a music school and dreamed of becoming a musician. In 1975, after graduation, he tried to enter several creative universities of Moscow, but was not accepted. He entered the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, the course of Lev Dodin. In 1979, after graduating from the institute, Igor Sklyar became an actor of the Tomsk Youth Theater, where he worked until 1980. In 1980-1982 he served in the cavalry regiment at the Mosfilm, while acting in the cinema. From 1983 until 2000 Igor Sklyar was an actor of the Leningrad Maly Drama Theater under the direction of Lev Dodin. His roles included the village fool in Brothers and Sisters by Fedor Abramov, convict Fedka in The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jack Simon in the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the murderer Roberto Zukko in the play of the same name. Since 2006, he worked in the entertaining theater of Nikita Sokolov "NIKART", in the same year he would be accepted into the troupe of the Theater Festival "Baltic House". On the stage of the "Baltic House" Igor Sklyar performed the role of Sasha in the play Bury Me Behind the Baseboard. In 2011, on the same stage, the actor played one of the main roles in the production of The Cabal of Hypocrites. Since 2015, Igor Sklyar has been cooperating with the Moscow Sovremennik Theater. In the 2017 season he played the role of Cyril Zander in the play With the Coming.... In film, Igor Sklyar made his debut as a schoolboy Nikolai Maslenka, in Vladimir Rogovoy's film Shipboy of the Northern Fleet, but recognition came to the young artist in 1984 with the release of Karen Shakhnazarov'smusical filmWe Are from Jazz, in which Sklyar performed the role of jazz musician Kostya Ivanov. Having performed Komarovo, one of the first hits of Igor Nikolayev, Igor Sklyar gained wide popularity. Having become famous as a pop singer, the actor ironically played this situation in the role of a pop star from Alexander Stefanovich's film Start First. In Alexander Surikov's comedy Children of Monday, the actor played an atypical image of a drunk businessman Mitya. In 2000, Igor Sklyar acted as Commissioner Yakovlev in the film Gleb Panfilov's . Igor Sklyar starred in the films: Townspeople, Only in the Music Hall, Take Care of Women, Anna Pavlova, Hourglass, Battalions Ask for Fire, Maritsa, The Feat of Odessa, Start First, The Victims Have No Claims, The Journey of Monsieur Perrychon, The Frenchman, The Prisoner of Château d'If, The Imitator, Tartuffe, The Year of the Dog, The Investigators: Ten Years After, Red Sky, Black Snow, Ratatouille, Hooked on the Game, Robinson, Courier from Paradise, Dreams, Hammer, About the Faith. In recent years Sklyar has been actively playing in TV series - Moscow Saga, The Chess Player, The Fall of the Empire, The First Circle, The Summer of the Wolves , Underground Transition, Sherlock Holmes, Farmer, Outgoing Nature, Teach me to live, Family Album, Excellence.
