Yulia Takshina is a Russian film and theater actress, former dancer.
Beautiful girl was born on July 9, 1980 in Belgorod, USSR. Her father was a plant worker, and her mother worked as an editor in the publishing house. Yulia was an active child and played roles in the school theater. When the girl was 7 years old she joined the Contemporary Theater, where her elder brother Vladimir danced. In addition, Yulia was engaged in ballroom dancing.
While studying at high school Takshina wrote articles, which were published in various local publications.
After school Yulia went to Moscow to enter the faculty of journalism at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), but did not score the required number of points. The girl decided to enter the Moscow State University. You know, she did not study for a long time and left the university after a year and a half.
As a result, Takshina decided to become a professional actress. In 2006 the girl graduated from the Shchukin Theater Institute.
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Viktoriya Tolstoganova is a Russian film and theater actress. In 2005 she was a laureate of the Russian Government Prize in the field of culture.
Cute girl was born on March 24, 1972 in Moscow into the family of an engineer and an English teacher. Victoria has three younger sisters.
She graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). You know, she made her debut in the short film The Day Duty in 1997.
Also Tolstoganova is an actress of the Moscow Art Theatre. There she played in several performances including We Start a New Life, or the Oginski Polonaise, The Masquerade, Khlestakov and The Twelfth Night. In addition, she played in The Plasticine, Shopping and Boris Godunov. And with the play Boris Godunov, which was directed by famous British Declan Donnalan, Victoria visited a theater festival in Venezuela.
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Galina Danilova is a Russian theater and film actress.
Pretty girl was born on May 2, 1968 in Yoshkar-Ola. At school, she did not miss any theater performance, and always played the main roles.
After school Galina entered the Kazan Drama School. In 1989 she moved to Moscow and became an actress in the Satyricon theater in which she worked until 2005. You know, she played in The Threepenny Opera, Jacques and His Master, Estremadurskie Killer, The Thief of Bagdad, etc.
The actress was supposed to play the role of Tamara Kozhemyatko (secretary) in the TV series Daddy’s Daughter, but she was offered the title role in the TV series Step by Step. Subsequently, she starred in Daddy’s daughters in the role of Galina Polezhaykina.
In 2005, the actress debuted in the film Oh Frost Frost. To tell the truth, she became widely known thanks her participation in the Russian comedy sketch show 6 Kadrov.
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Daria Maiorova is a Russian actress and TV presenter.
She was born on February 24, 1972 in Moscow. Her father Igor Maiorov was a sound director and her grandfather Vasili Pronin was a film director, a very famous person in the prewar years.
Dasha dreamed of becoming an actress since childhood and her dream came true.
In 1989 the girl entered the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. Russian actor Vlad Galkin was Daria’s first love.
In 1990 Daria and her father went to Vladimir where she met her future husband, Soviet and Russian film director of Armenian origin Karen Shakhnazarov. He was 38 years old, and Daria was 19. Shortly after graduation, Daria married Karen Shakhnazarov. It was the third marriage for Karen. The actress gave birth to two sons – Ivan and Vasiliy. By the way, their sons studied in the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Unfortunately, Daria and Karen divorced.
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Yekaterina Rednikova is a Soviet-Russian and Hollywood film actress.
Katya was born on May 17, 1973 in Moscow. She has a brother, who is seven years older. As a child, the future actress was very shy, but active. She skated, played the piano, studied at the theater studio.
Her debut role 16-year-old Rednikova played in the film Lessons In Late Spring by Oleg Kahun in 1990. Later she played a more serious role in a very good detective thriller The Abyss, Seventh Circle.
After graduation from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in 1994 Katya worked in the Et Cetera theater. She played Ruth in Beyond the Horizon, nurse in Doctor and Dark Lady in Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Bernard Shaw.
Being a student Yekaterina played in the American film Hellfire by Roger Corman.
By the way, Rednikova became popular after the title role in the film The Thief (1997) by Pavel Chukhrai. In 1998 the film was nominated for Oscar and the film crew was invited to Los Angeles to attend the ceremony. Unfortunately, it did not get the prize.
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Yelena Solovey, the most delicate and amazing actress of Soviet cinema, was born on February 24, 1947 in Neustrelitz, the Soviet Occupation Zone. Her parents met each other at the end of the war in Berlin, where her father served in the artillery and her mother was a nurse.
Three years after Yelena’s birth her family moved to Krasnoyarsk and then to Moscow.
Since her childhood the girl dreamed of becoming an actress. After school Yelena wanted to enter the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography but failed. You know, she worked as a Music teacher in one of Moscow’s secondary schools. A year later she tried again and entered the Institute of Cinematography.
Yelena made her debut in the movie in 1967 in the short film In The Mountains Of My Heart directed by R. Hamdamov. A year later she was invited to play in the short film Pravdoha.
In 1969, Yelena starred in Late Flowers directed by A. Nahl and The King Stag directed by P. Arsenov.
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Elena Zakharova is a Russian theater and film actress.
Pretty girl was born on November 2, 1975 in Moscow. In her childhood Elena danced in choreographic ensemble Buratino.
At school, she liked Russian language, Literature and foreign languages, but was not good at mathematics. She wanted to become a fashion model and an actress.
During her studies at the Shchukin Theater School she played in the film Comedians’ Shelter by Alexander Alexandrov. After graduating in 1998, Elena began to work at the Moon Theatre. Since then, the actress constantly participates in performances. She played in the productions The Travel of Dilettantes and Mata Hari: Eyes of the Day.
The TV series The Fifth Corner, which was released in 2001, brought her fame. Young actress was invited to take part in various TV projects. For example, in 2005 Zakharova took part in the reality show Empire. Then she participated in the TV shows including Stars on Ice (2006) and Dancing with the Stars (2009).
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