One of the most talented and brilliant directors, screenwriters, and producers of modern times. Co-founder of the film company "Krasnaya Strela." He gained wide recognition through the television detective "Kamenskaya," the cult criminal series "Brigada," the adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot," the telenovela "Women in the Game Without Rules," the mystical series based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "Master and Margarita," the action film "Piranha Hunt," dramas "Vise," "The Country of the Deaf," the musical "Stilyagi," the series "Ottepel," and the film "Geographer Drank His Globe Away". A multiple winner of the Golden Eagle and Nika awards, he received the Russian Federation Government Award in the field of culture for creating the television series "Ottepel". He was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree for a significant contribution to the development of Russian culture, art, media, and long-term fruitful activity. In 2018, he received the Moscow Mayor's Prize "For Creating the Image of Moscow in Cinema" (first place) for the film "Bolshoy". TV series produced by Valery Todorovsky have become part of the golden fund of contemporary Russian multi-series cinema.