Elena Shevchenko is a Russian theater and film actress.
Pretty girl was born on October 23, 1964 in Novosibirsk into the family of the pilot.
One day the girl visited her mother and her little brother in a hospital in Novosibirsk. Returning home, she drew attention to the signboard of the theater school. Elena was lucky and entered it without any problems. You know, in the theater school Elena met her first husband Vladimir Mashkov. In 1985, Shevchenko graduated from the school and together with her little daughter went after her husband to the capital to continue her studies at GITIS.
In 1990 Shevchenko entered the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
Elena’s debut in the movie was in 1991. The actress played in the psychological thriller Armavir by Vadim Abdrashitov and in the Boris Trumin’s melodrama Black And White. The movie Black and White was filmed in the United States in English and Russian audience didn’t see it. But Armavir brought fame to the actress.
Later, Elena was invited to the Mayakovsky Theater, where she had been working for ten years.
Then Shevchenko was invited to play the main role in the New Year’s comedy The Orphan Of Kazan directed by her ex-husband Vladimir Mashkov.
For the film Two Moons Three Suns Elena was awarded the prize for Best Actress at the Baltic Pearl film festival in Riga.
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Ekaterina Volkova is a Russian actress, best known for her role in the television series The Voronins.
Katya was born on January 15, 1982 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR.
In 2003 she graduated from the Shchepkin Theatre School and joined the National Actor Theatre.
In 2005 Ekaterina played a small role in the documentary series Kulagin And Partners. Since 2006 she began to play in such television series as Luba, Children And The Plant, Who’s the Boss, Monte Cristo.
The parents of the actress insisted on a more serious education, so in 2006 Volkova graduated from the Budget and Treasury Academy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
In 2009 Ekaterina was invited to play in the adaptation of the American sitcom – TV series The Voronins. Her heroine Vera Voronina won the love of viewers not only in Russia, but also in CIS countries.
You know, Volkova was among the top three Russian actresses. A year later she was invited to appear in the series Reflections (Otbleski).
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Slava Polunin is a Soviet and Russian actor, director, clown, mime. He is People’s Artist of the Russian Federation (2001). You know, he is the creator of the stage spectacles, Asisyai-revue, Slava’s Snowshow and Diabolo. By the way, Polunin is generally recognized as one of the greatest living clowns. Outstanding man has climbed to the top of his chosen profession.
The boy was born on June 12, 1950 in Novosil, Orel region.
He graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Culture and from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
In 1968, he founded the mime theater Play-Makers, which became popular in the 1980s all over the Soviet Union. Moreover, he was the organizer of the Mime-parade (1982), the All-Union Festival of Street Theaters (1987), the First All-Union Festival Congress of Fools (1988). Also he is one of the main founders of the Academy of Fools.
Since 1988 Polunin has been working mainly abroad. Actually, he lived in London. Now Slava lives near Paris in the Yellow Mill estate.
In 1991 he became an artist of the Canadian Cirque du Soleil. He staged 30 show-performances.
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Ivan Alekseev, better known as Noize MC, is a Russian rock musician, hip-hop singer, songwriter and actor. He is famous because of the numerous Lo-Fi compositions. His music combines the features of several styles. The artist described his work as modern urban music at the turn of the hip-hop, punk, reggae and break beat. You know, he is an author of seven studio solo albums, four singles.
The boy was born on March 9, 1985 in Yartsevo, Smolensk region. His father was engaged in music. In 1994, the parents divorced and the mother took her son and moved to Belgorod. When Ivan was 8 years old, he began to write poems and was fond of music. The boy graduated from music school.
In 1998 and 2000, Ivan participated in the regional contests of young musicians and each time received the first place.
Being a fan of guitar rock music (punk rock), at the age of 13 Ivan formed his first band. Together with his classmate Arkady, aka Adik 228, Ivan participated in a local rap group VIP. Later Noize MC and Adik formed a rap duo Face2Face. The group participated in many regional festivals, competitions and concerts.
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Ivan Nikolaev is a talented and successful young Russian actor. You know, Ivan belongs to the actors, who infect the audience with their energy.
The boy was born on February 23, 1983. His childhood was devoted to sport: sports and ballroom dancing, acrobatics, athletics. Professional sports took a lot of time and energy, but in his free moments Nikolaev looked for homeless animals and took them home. He wanted to be a vet. But one day, to school where he studied, the casting team came. They were looking for new faces for the TV program 100%. So Ivan became one of the top five presenters of the program, which had huge ratings at that time. The project lasted three years and was closed after the producer Sergey Suponev’s death.
The boy entered at first the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and then the Russian University of Theatre Arts.
In summer 2004 Ivan took part in the shooting of his first major full-length film 9th Company (9 Rota) directed by Fedor Bondarchuk.
At about the same time he played one of the main roles in the TV series The Club. So the next project was the film End Of The World, dedicated to the energy crisis in May 2005.
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Dmitry Pevtsov is a well-known theater and film actor, a singer and an acting teacher. By the way, he is Honored Artist of Russia (1995) and People’s Artist of Russia (2001).
The boy was born on July 8, 1963 into the family of a pentathlon coach and a sports doctor. As a child, the boy practiced karate and judo. At the age of three he began riding horses, because his mother was a specialist in hippotherapy. You know, the boy dreamed of becoming a captain.
In 1985 Pevtsov graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). From 1986 to 1987 he served in the Soviet Army.
The actor worked at the Taganka Theater and the Lenkom Theater. Actually, he played main roles in Hamlet, The Seagull, Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro, Two Women, The Hoax, Juno and Avos.
In 1986 he got a small role in the detective End Of The World With Symposium To Follow, the last film of Tatiana Lioznova. This film was shown on television only once and did not bring fame.
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Natalia Zemtsova is a young Russian film actress, star of the youth television series The Eighties.
Pretty girl was born on December 7, 1987 in Omsk. Her father was an athlete, a coach of local boxers, and her mother was a commodity expert. Despite the completely uncreative professions, parents instilled in their daughters a love for art and foreign languages. The girl went to the theater studio, and also studied at the gymnasium with in-depth study of English and French. Natalia’s grandfather taught her to draw.
After school Natalia decided to go to Moscow, she had a strange feeling that someone was waiting for her. In Moscow, of course, no one was waiting, and she returned to Omsk and began to study at the Omsk Youth Theatre.
A year later Natalia entered the Theatre Academy and moved to St. Petersburg. It wasn’t easy for Natalia to study, she even wanted to quit it.
After the theater academy, the actress began to appear in films, and also tried her hand as a TV presenter. Alexander Pushnoy and awesome girl were the presenters of the entertaining program Creative Class on the STS channel.
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