Театральный институт имени Бориса Щукина
Alexander Shirvindt was born in Moscow in a family of a violinist and music teacher Anatoly Gustavovich Shirvindt (1896–1962) and Raisa Samoilovna Shirvindt (1898–1985) of Moscow Philharmonic Society. In 1956 he graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year Shirvindt made his cinema debut in "She Loves You!" (1956). Grandfather, Gustav (Gedaliah) Moiseevich Shirvindt (a graduate of Vilnius 1st Gymnasium in 1881), was a doctor.