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Nataliya Antonova, actress

Nataliya Antonova - Russian actress

Nataliya Antonova – Russian actress


Nataliya Antonova is a Russian film and theater actress.
She was born on March 12, 1974 in Moscow into the family of a serviceman and a teacher-philologist. In her school days Natalia did not think about acting career, dreaming of becoming a ballerina. But because of excess weight the childhood dream did not come true.
After school, Nataliya decided to become an actress. Her younger sister Svetlana Antonova and cousin Oleg Mosalev are actors too.
In 1997 Antonova played at the Gogol Theatre (Moscow Theatre named after Nikolay Gogol).
Nataliya made her debut in the movie in 1997 in the films My First Teacher and At The Dawn Of The Misty Youth. Then she starred in TV series: Kamenskaya (Elina Bartos), Ugra’s Gold, Three Against All, Open Season 2, Autumn Blues.
By the way, in 2001, Antonova’s five-year-old son first appeared in the film Brigada.
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Olga Fadeeva, Russian actress

Olga Fadeeva, Russian actress

Olga Fadeeva, Russian actress


Olga Fadeeva is a Russian and Belarusian film and theater actress.
Pretty girl was born on October 15, 1978 in Minsk, USSR. The girl’s parents were ballet dancers and she also wanted to become a ballerina. However, she entered the High School Theater.
In the mid-1990s, Olga entered the Belarusian Academy of Arts. During her studies, she starred in music videos for Alexander Malinin’s song We Must Live and Igor Demarin’s song Marilyn Monroe.
You know, Olga’s debut role on the stage was the role of Ophelia in the play Hamlet.
The young Belarusian actress received the first role in the film in 2000. The role was not the main, but the actress managed to show her talents. So she was noticed and immediately was offered to take part in a comedy show on the main Russian channel. Then followed a few minor projects, after which the actress decided to move to Moscow.
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Polina Polyakova

Polina Polyakova - Russian actress

Polina Polyakova – Russian actress


Polina Polyakova (her real name is Olga Polyakova) is a popular Russian actress and TV presenter.
Pretty girl was born on August 1, 1983. Her parents are artists Elena Vladimirovna and Alexander Ananievich Polyakov. Her first role was in kindergarten in New Year performance Kolobok and Snegurochka. At the age of 15, Polya wanted to become a film director. The play Juno and Avos made a great impression on her. Entrance examinations for the directing faculty were much more difficult than for the acting faculty. So Polyakova decided to become an actress.
In 2004 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). And in the same year she made her debut in films.
You know, Polina danced in the ballet show Anreal Lates, and also sang in the band ALEX.
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Agniya Ditkovskite, film actress

agniya Ditkovskite

Agniya Ditkovskite, film actress


Agniya Ditkovskite is a Russian and Lithuanian actress.
Pretty girl was born on born May 11, 1988 in Vilnius, USSR into a family of Lithuanian film director Olegas Ditkovskis and Russian actress Tatiana Lyutaeva. Until 2003 Agniya lived in Lithuania. And in 2004 she, her mother and younger brother Dominique moved to Russia. The girl decided to follow her parents’ footsteps and entered the Film Institute, but left it after a year. Despite this, she was able to start a professional career. And she made her debut in the feature film Heat (2006), in which Agniya played one of the main roles.
The actress starred in Alexey Chumakov’s music video for the song Here And There and sang the song Airplanes together with Roma Kenga.
In 2010, the actress was invited to play in the second part of the movie The Game. Also Agniya took part in the filming of Vij Returning, where she played the role of a witch.
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Olga Sutulova, actress

Olga Sutulova

Olga Sutulova, actress


Olga Sutulova is a Russian film and theater actress.
She was born on May 4, 1980 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) into a family of mathematicians and engineers. She has sister Alena, who is eight years older than Olga. Alena graduated from the Military Medical Academy and worked as a psychologist in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
At the age of 14 the girl was sent to England to study at the Oxford school, but she was kicked out because of bad behavior. Olga was a hooligan.
Without thinking, the future actress entered the shipping company vocational school. But parents didn’t want their daughter to become a mechanic and after some time she was transferred to Alexander II high school in Peterhof.
Later Sutulova graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).
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Ravshana Kurkova, Russian actress

Ravshana Kurkova, Russian actress

Ravshana Kurkova, Russian actress


Ravshana Kurkova (nee Matchanova) is a Russian actress.
The girl was born on August 22, 1980 in Tashkent, but then her family moved to Moscow. Her father played in the theater Ilkhom and her mother is an actress and film director. Ravshana graduated from music school. The girl planned to enter the University of London, but decided to stay in Russia. She graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. The aspiring actress studied Japanese.
Her first major film role was in the movie Fern’s Mystery directed by Rashid Malikov. You know, Ravshana was only 12 years old.
In the late 1990s, Ravshana moved to Moscow, where she entered the philological faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. After graduating from the university she worked on television as an editor of the talk show, an assistant director.
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Tatiana Kolganova

Tatiana Kolganova - Russian actress

Tatiana Kolganova – Russian actress


Tatiana Kolganova is a Russian theater and film actress. She was the winner of the prize for Best Actress at the St. Petersburg Festival Pure Dreams (1999) for her role in the film Happy End.
Pretty girl was born on April 7, 1972 in Moldova, in a small town of Belti. Her father Anatoly Matveyevich was a sailor, later he worked as an engineer. And her mother Lydia Veniaminovna worked in the sphere of trade. Tanya has elder sister Alena.
Once, after watching a melodrama the girl burst into tears. The parents explained that the actors did not really suffer. The little girl was indignant and decided to become an actress to prove that all emotions were natural. She began attending the theater club and after finishing school the girl went to St. Petersburg.
In 1992 she married her classmate and film director Vadim Skvirsky.
The girl graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Culture in 1994 and from the Academy of Theatre Arts in 1996.
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