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Mariya Gorban

Mariya Gorban - Russian actress

Mariya Gorban – Russian actress


Mariya Gorban is a Russian film and theater actress. Pretty girl was born on December 26, 1986 in Yaroslavl into a family of actors. Her father, Alexander Gorban, was an actor and then became a director of the Drama Theatre. And her mother was an actress too. When the girl was six years old her family moved to Moscow.
In 2007 Mariya graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). By the way, her graduation performances were Nameless Star by Mikhail Sebastyan, Three Sisters by A.P. Chekhov and Mandate by Nikolai Erdman.
Awesome girl first appeared on the screen in the popular youth television series The Simple Truth. It was her brother Alexei Sutyagin, actor in the TV series, who invited her.
To tell the truth, in 2003, Gorban starred in the TV series Women’s Logic, where she played along with Alisa Freindlich.
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Anna Kovalchuk, Russian actress, born in Germany

Anna Kovalchuk, Russian actress, born in Germany

Anna Kovalchuk, Russian actress, born in Germany


Anna Kovalchuk is a Russian film and theater actress, Honored Actress of Russia.
Pretty girl was born on June 15, 1977 in Neuschterlitz, Germany. Her grandfather was the director of the school, the grandmother taught literature, the mother Natalia Fedorovna worked in the kindergarten, and father Leonid Ivanovich worked as a military teacher and taught at the engineering academy.
From Germany, the Kovalchuks moved to the capital of Armenia, then to Moscow, and later they finally settled in Leningrad. As a child, the girl was shy and modest. She was engaged in gymnastics and ballet.
Awesome girl graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater, Music and Cinema in 1998.
Anna’s debut was in The Imaginary Invalid performance based on Moliere’s homonymous comedy.
Her first role in film was in 1998 in the comedy Love is Evil.
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Olga Arntgolts

Olga Arntgolts - Russian actress

Olga Arntgolts – Russian actress


Olga Arntgolts is a Russian film and theater actress. Popular young actress has played in more than 30 different films and TV series.
Pretty girl was born on March 18, 1982 in Kaliningrad. She is the identical twin sister of another Russian actress Tatiana Arntgolts. By the way, Olga is 20 minutes younger than Tatiana. Olga and Tatiana are the daughters of Russian theater actors Albert Arntgolts and Valentina Galich. The twins were named after Tatiana and Olga Larina from the novel Eugene Onegin by great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
After graduating from the Lyceum the sisters Arntgolts went to conquer Moscow.
First Olga’s role was in the episode Cleopatra from the TV series Black Room.
The main role of Lena in the TV series Three Against All brought her a real fame.
In 2002, the actress was offered to play a role in the four-part film NEXT, where her sister Tatiana had already played. According to the original idea of the director, Olga was the double of Tatyana’s character, whom she saw in a dream. But she had to pass exams at the school, and the girl refused.
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Marusya Zikova

Marusya Zikova - Russian actress and TV presenter

Marusya Zikova – Russian actress and TV presenter


Marusya Zikova (Maria Zykova) is a Russian actress and TV host.
Pretty girl was born on January 25, 1986 in Moscow. Her childhood she spent on Sakhalin Island, but after the earthquake in 1995 Marusya’s family moved to Tula. Little Maria was fond of singing and dancing. So, she gave concerts for her relatives. Then Zykova entered the Children’s Theater Secret at the Palace of Pioneers in Tula.
At the age of 17 she appeared on the Tula television where she was a TV presenter on MTV-Tula and STS-Tula. But Tula was not enough for Marusya and she went to Moscow to conquer the capital.
Now she is a promising actress famous for TV series Daesh Molodezh! on STS channel.
In December 2009, her photos appeared on the cover of the Maxim magazine.
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Anna Starshenbaum, Russian actress

Anna Starshenbaum, Russian actress

Anna Starshenbaum, Russian actress


Anna Starshenbaum is a Russian film and theater actress.
Beautiful girl was born on April 26, 1989 in Moscow. The girl’s father is a professor of psychology, the author of several scientific works. He met Anna’s mother at the Institute of Psychiatry.
Since childhood Anna was engaged in dancing and singing. One day the girl watched the film Country of the Deaf directed by Valery Todorovsky. Chulpan Khamatova played the main role. The film made such a strong impression on Anya that she firmly decided to become an actress.
Her career started when she was 14 years old. Anna left school and joined the Spesivtsev Theater, where she took part mostly in mob scenes.
After meeting Vladimir Nazarov she performed a small role in a film Lie Detector is Being Sold. In 2004 she entered the Russian University of Theatre Arts.
Her first main role Anna played in Leonid Rybakov’s film Say Leo. The film became the prize-winner at Pacific Meridian festival in 2008 as the best Russian Film.
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Ekaterina Vilkova, film actress

Ekaterina Vilkova, film actress

Ekaterina Vilkova, film actress


Ekaterina Vilkova is a Russian film and theater actress, Candidate for Master of Sports in Rhythmic Gymnastics.
Katya was born on July 11, 1984 in Gorky, USSR (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). The father of the future actress worked as an electrician, and her mother worked as a watchwoman. The girl’s family, like all Soviet people of that period, suffered from a deficit, the girl had to wear clothes of her elder brother. Nevertheless, little Katya grew up as a cheerful girl, dreaming about beautiful life, discussing plans for the future with her friends.
In 2003 Ekaterina graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theatre School. Later, in 2006, she graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School.
She played in the Theater in the No Part from His Love directed by Alexander Volodin.
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Yulia Parshuta, beautiful singer

Yulia Parshuta, beautiful singer

Yulia Parshuta, beautiful singer


Yulia Parshuta is a Russian singer, actress, former lead singer of pop group Yin-Yang. In 2011 the beautiful girl began her solo career.
Pretty girl was born on April 23, 1988 in Sochi. In her childhood she took part in children’s dance competitions. She studied at art and music schools. While studying at school Yulia sang in the band Fortuna and played basketball. By the way, she took part in fashion shows of famous designers as a model.
In 1999, Parshuta took the 3rd place in the children’s drawing competition in France.
After school Yulia entered the Russian People’s Friendship University, Philological Faculty. You know, Parshuta worked as a weather girl.
Talented singer won the regional song contest New Wave in 2003. A year later, in 2004, she became the finalist of all-Russian contest You are Supermodel 2. Then Yulia won the grand prize in the beauty contest Crystal Crown of Moscow in 2006.
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