Alika Smekhova (her real name is Alla) is a Russian actress, pop singer and television presenter, Honored Artist of Russia (2008). She dreamed of becoming a singer and achieved considerable results. However, then she decided to become an actress. And films made Alika well-known in Russia and the CIS countries.
Pretty girl was born on March 27, 1968 in Moscow. Her father Veniamin Smekhov is a well-known and respected actor. The girl’s mother, Alla Alexandrovna, was also closely associated with creativity. At one time she worked as a journalist, and then decided to link her life with the theater, but as a script editor.
When the future actress was 14 years old, Veniamin Borisovich divorced his wife and went to another woman. This event was a real shock for both the young actress and her mother. Alla tried to limit communication with him, because it was hard and painful to see him. Actually, her mother’s salary was not enough to raise two children.
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Oksana Fandera is a Russian film and theater actress.
Pretty girl was born on November 7, 1967 in Odessa, USSR. Her father, Oleg Fandera is an actor, half-Ukrainian, half-gypsy, belonged to an ancient Gypsy family. When Oksana was fourteen years old, her mother remarried, and they moved to Moscow.
At the age of 12, Oksana had the opportunity to get the role of Electronics friend. However, because of lack of experience Fandera played only the role of a schoolgirl in the Soviet bestseller. And Oksana Alekseeva got the main female role in the Adventures of Electronics.
Sixteen-year-old Oksana made an attempt to enter Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). However, she failed an entrance exam.
Oksana continued to cherish the dream of becoming an actress. The future celebrity worked as a secretary in the fashion house of Vyacheslav Zaitsev. Then she worked as a head of the children’s group of models and even as a cleaner.
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Natalia Andreychenko was a popular Soviet actress of the 1970s and 1980s. She is known as Russian Mary Poppins.
Pretty girl was born on May 3, 1956 in Moscow. Her father worked in an aircraft factory, and her mother worked at the Ministry of Education. At the age of five Natasha first saw the ballet Sleeping Beauty and was completely fascinated. At home, she tried to dance all parties and since then imagined herself a ballerina. 8-year-old girl staged the ballet at the school, becoming a director and choreographer. Also she was fond of music and parents bought her a piano. Natasha’s another passion in those years was swimming. However, she wasn’t going to become a professional athlete. She decided to be an actress.
In 1973 Andreychenko entered the All-Russian State University of Cinematography. While studying, she made her debut in the film From Dawn to Dawn (1975).
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Kristina Orbakaite is a Soviet and Russian singer, actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2013). By the way, she is a member of the International Union of pop art. Her parents are Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva and Lithuanian circus performer Mykolas Orbakas.
Pretty girl was born on May 25, 1971 in Moscow and spent much of her childhood in the Lithuanian town Sventoji.
In 1983 she starred in the movie Chuchelo (Scarecrow), she played a girl who was different from everyone else, and became popular. The film was premiered in the US and Los Angeles Times even compared Orbakaite with Meryl Streep in its review. Washington Post compared the young actress to an angel and the San Francisco Chronicle described her work as unforgettable.
Since then awesome girl starred in many films.
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Zhanna Epple is a Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2010).
Pretty girl was born on July 15, 1964 in Moscow. Her surname Epple the actress inherited from the French aristocracy. Great-grandfather was a prominent researcher, one of the founders of genetic engineering.
Soon after the birth, little girl was sent to Sakhalin to the mother’s parents. Her grandfather was a journalist, and grandmother worked as the chief accountant in the Department of Correctional Labor Institutions. They had little free time and complicated relationships in the family, so the girl was sent to a boarding kindergarten. There she stayed for five years. When it was time to go to school, the mother took her to Moscow. By that time, she divorced and Sergei Vladimirovich Ulantsev became a step-father of the girl.
At school she was a good student, liked rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, figure skating, ballet and music.
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Svetlana Nemolyayeva is a Russian and Soviet theater and cinema actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1980). Since 1959 she is one of the leading actresses of the Moscow Academic Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky. The actress is a laureate of the National Theater Award Golden Mask (2013), two Theater Star Awards (2012, 2014) and others.
Cute girl was born on April 18, 1937 in Moscow, Soviet Union. Father Vladimir Viktorovich Nemoliaev, a Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, one of the first graduates of the VGIK, was respected both by beginners and recognized masters. Mother Valentina Lvovna Ladygina was a sound engineer. Actress Lyudmila Tselikovskaya and Mikhail Zharov, Vsevolod Pudovkin and the famous clown Mikhail Rumyantsev, often came to visit the Nemoliaevs.
At the age of 8, in 1945, the actress starred in the movie Twins. And in 1958 she played the role of Olga Larina in the feature film Eugene Onegin. Roles in Eldar Ryazanov’s films: Office Romance (1977), Garage (1979), Promised Heaven (1991) brought her wide popularity.
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Olga Orlova (her real name is Olga Nosova) is a Russian singer, actress and songwriter.
Pretty girl was born on November 13, 1977 in Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics.
In 1995 she was the first girl who became a member of the new Russian female pop-group Blestyashchie. Beautiful girl was a member of the group from 1995 to 2000. Orlova was not only the soloist of the group, but also the author of many songs. In 2001 Olga started her solo career.
By the way, Orlova played the leading role in the movie The Golden Age.
In November 2002, Olga went to the Dominican Republic to participate in the third season of the reality show The Last Hero – 3: Stay alive (Survivor). The singer took an honorable third place. Singers Elena Perova and Vladimir Presnyakov became finalists.
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