Lilia Amarfy was a Soviet and Russian operetta actress, the soloist of the Moscow Operetta Theatre. By the way, she was Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1983) and People’s Artist of Russia (1998).
Pretty girl was born on November 8, 1949 in Orhei, Moldavian SSR. At the age of 6 the girl began singing. The first music lessons were in the music school. Also she was engaged in dances. Then Lilia was the leading performer of the national ensemble Codru, directed by Vasily Asaulyak, and sang jazz. The ensemble took the first places in the most prestigious republican and all-union competitions and festivals, and successfully performed abroad.
The young actress performed all over Moldavia together with Vasily Asaulyak’s orchestra. And in 1966, the gala concert took place in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.
In 1967, Lilia came to Moscow to enter the university. And in 1972 she graduated from the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
Since 1972, she regularly starred in the program Lovers of Operetta.
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Lubov Polischuk was a Russian and Soviet theater and film actress, theater activist and teacher. By the way, she was Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1986), People’s Artist of Russia (1994).
Pretty girl was born on May 21, 1949 in Omsk, Soviet Union. Since childhood she dreamed of becoming an actress, she loved to dance and sing. Because of her too high growth, she was not accepted into the ballet school. Then Lyuba joined the school choir, becoming its soloist.
In 1967 she graduated from the All-Russia workshops of pop art. The actress went to the Moscow Theatre of Miniatures in 1980s. Later, she played in the theater School of Modern Drama.
In the movie, Lubov debuted in 1973, in the film Starling and Lyre directed by Grigori Aleksandrov.
To tell the truth, the actress became famous after the premiere of the movie The Twelve Chairs in 1976. It was an episode in which she danced the tango with the main character played by Andrey Mironov.
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Maria Mashkova is a Russian film and theater actress.
Pretty girl was born on April 19, 1985 in Novosibirsk. Masha was born into a family of actors. Her mother Elena Shevchenko is a theater and film actress. And her father Vladimir Mashkov is an actor and film director, People’s Artist of Russia. The little girl was brought up by her grandparents, because her parents went to Moscow to study at the theater universities. When Maria was two years old her parents divorced. After the divorce, Vladimir Mashkov got married another woman. Elena Shevchenko also married for the second time and gave birth to two sons: Nikita (born in 1994) and Vsevolod (born in 2002).
By the way, Maria played her debut role of Lavinia in the film by Vladimir Grammatikov A Little Princess when she was 11 years old.
In 1992, Masha moved to live with her mother in Moscow. At the age of seven, she acted in the play Victoria based on the play by Terence Rettigena (directed by Andrei Goncharov). And in 2002, when she studied in the eleventh grade of a secondary school, Maria played the main role in the play Baumeister Solness directed by Tatyana Akhramkova.
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Maria Shalaeva is a Russian film actress.
Cute girl was born on March 15, 1981 in Tushino, Moscow. Her father worked at Baikonur. And her mother is an engineer by profession, but during perestroika she began her own business. Her grandfather was a naval engineer.
Little Maria was fond of playing the domra.
As a teenager Maria loved movies with Chuck Norris. She even had similar hairstyle and was nicknamed Chuck Norris. But the girl didn’t think about acting career, she wanted to be a ballerina.
From 1998 to 2000 she studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (RATI-GITIS).
Maria’s career started in 2002. The actress starred in over twenty films and television series, including such films as Freshman, Masha (directed by Sergei Tkachev), Rusalka, Nirvana.
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Valeriya Guy Germanika (her real name is Valeria Dudinskaya) is a film director, screenwriter and camerawoman. She gained wide popularity after the release of her first television series School.
Cute girl was born on March 1, 1984 in Moscow. You know, she has changed her middle name and surname. Her father’s name is Igor Dudinskiy. Valeria didn’t go to school, she studied at home.
By the way, she graduated from the Internews School of Film and Television.
Germanika’s second film Girls got a prize for best short film at festival program Kinotavr. The film was shown at the 59th Cannes Film Festival. And at the age of 24 she was named Russian Larry Clark.
The next film Birthday of the Infanta entered the main competition of Kinotavr. Her movie Everybody Dies But Me was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Then it was shown at the Golden Camera contest and was awarded a Special Mention (Mention Speciale) for the best film. In addition, the film director was awarded Nika for the film Everybody Dies But Me in 2009.
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Alena Gorenko is a Russian TV presenter and actress. She was born on May 7, 1981 in Mytischi, Russia. As a child the girl studied at music school, art school and dance school. The little girl wanted to devote herself to ballet. But she was too high and was not accepted into the ballet school. When Alena was 10 years old, her sister Dasha was born.
In 1996, the magazine School Novel-newspaper published poetry by Alena, and her teacher, poetess Valentina Korostyleva, wrote a very warm review about the young author.
In 2003 she graduated from the Moscow State University.
By the way, Alena was a presenter of sports news on Capital channel.
Actually, she and her friends created the program Journey With Taste for the DTV-Viasat.
To tell the truth, she worked on Russia TV channel for two years.
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Marina Neyolova is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1987). She has appeared in 37 films since 1969. Her best-known roles were in such films as Monologue (1972), Mistakes of Youth (1978), Autumn Marathon (1979), The Barber of Siberia (1998), Azazel (2002).
Pretty girl was born on January 8, 1947 in Leningrad. At the age of 4 she began studying ballet. Since her childhood, Marina dreamed of becoming an actress.
In 1969 Neyolova graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography (LGITMIK). As a student Marina debuted in the film The Old Old Story.
Later, in 1971, Marina moved to Moscow and got work at the Mossovet Theatre. Three years later she joined the Sovremennik Theatre. Since then, her professional life was connected with this theater. The role in the play Valentin and Valentina became a successful debut.
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