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Category Archive: Movies and theatre

Mia Zarring – beautiful girl

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Mia Zarring – beautiful model, actress and TV presenter

Mia Zarring (her full name is Maria Zarring) is a beautiful girl with the biggest natural breasts in Russia.
Pretty girl was born on November 19, 1986 in Moscow. She is an actress, model and TV presenter.
When Mia was 9 years old her family moved to Crimea, where little girl joined young journalists’ club and wrote poems. You know, she got prizes at regional competitions.
15-year-old Mia began to work as a reporter and TV presenter.
In 2004 Mia entered the Faculty of Economics and attended lectures at the Faculty of Journalism. In 2011 she entered the acting department of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
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Anna Chipovskaya, Russian actress

Anna Chipovskaya

Anna Chipovskaya, Russian actress


Anna Chipovskaya is a Russian film and theater actress.
Pretty girl was born on June 16, 1987 in Moscow into the family of the Vakhtangov Theater actress Olga Chipovskaya and jazz musician Boris Frumkin. Her parents divorced. Now Boris Frumkin lives in Berlin and comes to Russia only on tour.
As a child Anna dreamed of becoming an actress. But her parents and grandparents wanted her to be a translator and Anna entered the linguistic school. By the way, Chipkovskaya worked in a modeling agency.
Despite the fact that Anna graduated from high school, her dream had not changed and she decided to enter the drama school.
In 2009 she graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School and was accepted into the troupe. Awesome girl made her debut in the play Amadeus. You know, Anna played in many plays, including Dance of the Albatross, Belugin’s Marriage, Olesya, Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro, Wolves and Sheep, Wonderland-80.
The actress refused to play in the sensational Hipsters, because she didn’t want to interrupt her studies. Oksana Akinshina played the role and became famous.
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Ani Lorak – pop singer, songwriter, actress

Ani Lorak

Ani Lorak – pop singer, songwriter, actress


Ani Lorak is a popular singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur. Also she is a model and a face of many international brands. By the way, Ani is People’s Artist and Honored Artist of Ukraine, and a former UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Karolina Kuiek (her real name) was born on September 27, 1978 in Kitsman, Soviet Union. Her parents broke up before her birth. Karolina was not the only child in the family. When the girl was six years old, she was sent to a boarding school. Despite the fact that her mother worked around the clock, she was not able to feed her children.
Karolina dreamed of becoming a singer since her childhood. She performed at various school vocal competitions. In 1992 the girl won the popular contest Pervotsvit. There she met producer Yuriy Falyosa.
Kuiek became known as Ani Lorak in March 1995 when she took part in the television program Morning Star in Moscow, Russia. There was a Russian singer with the same name so Kuiek had to invent a stage name. Ani Lorak is the name Karolina read backwards.
Her first album I Want To Fly was recorded in autumn 1995. The CD was released in early 1996 by the British company Holy Musіk.
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Anastasiya Sivaeva, Russian actress

Anastasiya Sivaeva - Russian actress

Anastasiya Sivaeva – Russian actress


Anastasiya Sivaeva is a Russian actress. The young actress became well-known for her role of Dasha Vasnetsova in sitcom Daddy’s Daughters directed by Sergei Aldonin and Cyril Papakul.
Pretty girl was born on November 10, 1991 in Moscow. Her father Mikhail Mikhailovich is a builder, and her mother Oksana Gennadievna is a dentist.
At the age of 5 Sivaeva joined folk dance studio Zorenka. When she was seven years old, she graduated from Vyacheslav Zaitsev’s child modeling agency and was enrolled in the eponymous designer’s theater. As a part of the team Anastasiya became the winner of various competitions. In 2000 she moved to the Alexei Bulanov’s child modeling agency Step-House. There Anastasiya continued to study acting, modern dance, juggling, the elements of acrobatics. Cute Nastya was noticed, and soon she was invited to the TV show Sesame Street.
In 2003, filmmaker Ivan Solovyov offered Anastasiya to play the role in his film Words and Music. Awesome girl played along with Vera Sotnikova, Marat Basharov, Alexei Guskov, Amalia Mordvinova, etc. In the same year Anastasiya starred in the main role in Jumble by Boris Grachevsky.
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Evgenia Kryukova, Russian actress

Evgenia Kryukova, Russian actress

Evgenia Kryukova, Russian actress


Evgenia Kryukova is a Soviet-Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2005). Since 2016, she is a designer of women’s clothing, and also makes ceramics.
Pretty girl was born on June 11, 1971 in Moscow into the family of engineers.
After school she entered the Moscow Institute of Architecture, but left it.
In 1988 Kryukova became an artist at the Moscow Youth Theater. Then she married actor Mikhail Zhukov, with whom she began to appear on stage as an actress. Her husband helped her acting career.
In 1990 Evgenia entered the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). One day she was invited to star in a movie at Belarusfilm studio. However, her debut in the movie did not take place, but the desire to become an actress became stronger.
For the first time Kryukova appeared in the movie in 1990. She was invited to play in a film by French director Francis Leroy, who came to Moscow. Then Karen Shakhnazarov invited her to play the role of Princess Tatiana in the film Assassin of the Tsar.
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David Duchovny. Unsecret files

David Duchovny

David Duchovny. Unsecret files


David Duchovny is a Hollywood actor who became world famous thanks to the roles of special agent FBI Fox Mulder in the series The X-Files and writer Hank Moody in the television series Californication. High level of professionalism allowed the actor to become the owner of two Golden Globes. In 2016, David received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. By the way, his name means ‘spiritual’ in Russian.
David was born in New York City on August 7, 1960. His Russian-Jewish father, Amram ‘Ron’ Ducovny (yes, they spell their names differently!) is a writer. His Scottish mother is a housewife. The parents divorced 11 years after his birth. The boy was raised by his mother, along with his sister Laurie and his brother Daniel.
The boy studied at the prestigious school in New York along with John Kennedy, Jr., who died in a plane crash in July 1999. After school he entered the Princeton University. Then he studied English Literature at the Yale University and worked as a teaching assistant.
David was working at his PhD thesis at Yale when one of his friends suggested that he should try acting classes.
Handsome boy appeared in a TV commercial for Lowenbrau beer and earned $9.000. It was twice as much money as he made as a teaching assistant.
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Igor Petrenko, Russian actor

Igor Petrenko, Russian actor

Igor Petrenko, Russian actor


Igor Petrenko is a Russian film and theater actor, winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2002).
The boy was born on August 23, 1977 in Potsdam, East Germany into a family of the Soviet military man. His father was a lieutenant colonel and a Candidate of Military Sciences. His mother worked as an interpreter from English language. When Igor was three years old, his family moved to Moscow. As a child Petrenko was fond of sports and was engaged in gymnastics, judo and sambo. English was his favorite subject at school.
In 1992, Igor together with Alexander Kizimov were charged with murder. Petrenko spent a year in the infamous detention center Matrosskaya Tishina. Then the judge sentenced him to three years’ probation.
The young man could not choose a profession for a long time. Finally, he decided to try his hand at acting and in 1996 Igor entered the Shchepkin Theater School. After graduation, he joined the Maly Theater but had to leave it because of the constant work in films.
In 2000 Igor debuted in the movie directed by Ildar Islamgulov. However, neither the role, nor the film were successful. His next role in the TV series Moscow Windows was more successful. Also he starred in the youth series Simple Truths along with Tatiana Arntgolts, Anatoly Rudenko and Anastasia Zadorozhnaya.
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