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Svetlana Khodchenkova

Svetlana Khodchenkova

Svetlana Khodchenkova

Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress, best known for her role of Viper in the Hollywood film The Wolverine (2013).
Beautiful girl was born on January 21, 1983 in Zheleznodorozhniy, a small city near Moscow. When Sveta was a little girl she thought she would become a nurse. Little girl treated her dolls. Then she decided to become a surgeon, but the girl hated biology and chemistry, and then realized she was afraid of blood.
At the age of 15, in 1998, she began working as a fashion model and made a few international gigs. Pretty girl went to France, where she worked for two or three months, then flew to Japan. By the way, she spent her first earned money on a home telephone (it was very cool to have your own phone at home).
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Polina Maksimova – beautiful actress

Polina Maksimova

Polina Maksimova – beautiful actress

Polina Maksimova is a Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter.
Cute girl was born on July 12, 1989 in Moscow in a family of actors Vladimir and Svetlana (Lana) Maksimova.
Her first appearance on the screen was in 2008, Polina played a small role in TV series Take Me With You. The actress also starred in Two stories about love (2008), Angel Wings (2008), Adventures in the fairy kingdom (2008), Last cordon (2009, 2011), where she worked with the stars of the Russian cinema.
In 2010 the girl graduated from the Schepkin Theatre School. Interesting role of Larissa Ogudalova in Ostrovsky’s play Without a Dowry was her graduate work.
“It was the role I dreamed of since my childhood. I want to play the Empress Catherine II. And Olga Zotova of Alexei Tolstoy’s novel The Viper. To tell the truth, I would even shave bald and play without makeup.”
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Natalya Varley

Natalya Varley

Natalya Varley

Natalya Varley is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989), laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR.
Natalia Vladimirovna Varley was born on June 22, 1947 in the Romanian city of Constanta. Her father Vladimir was a sea captain, chairman of the executive committee (the city government). According to family legend surname Varley is Welsh. In the nineteenth century a manufacturer left Wales for Russia and took his wonderful horses with him. Two brothers, who worked as jockeys, also came to Russia. Their surname was Varley. The brothers stayed in Russia and married Russian girls.
Her childhood Natalya spent in Murmansk. By the way, she was a very talented girl. At the age of four she began to write poems, draw, and later entered music school.
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Elena Velikanova, Russian actress

Elena Velikanova

Elena Velikanova, Russian actress

Elena Velikanova is a Russian theater and film actress. She was born on October 5, 1984 in Moscow. The girl was raised by her mother and stepfather. The mother worked as a director of the restaurant, and her stepfather was a producer, director, broadcaster and CEO of DTV channel.
In her childhood Elena was engaged in painting and attended music school where she studied singing and playing the piano. In addition, she was seriously involved in dancing. Together with the chorus, where Lena sang, she visited many countries.
After school Elena entered the Schepkin Theater school and graduated in 2005. The actress worked at Sphere and Hermitage theaters.
Her first role was in 2000 in the TV series DMB. In 2005, she starred in the TV series about Dasha Vasilyeva as well as in the television series I Won’t Be Back.
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Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress

Oksana Akinshina

Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress

Oksana Akinshina is a Russian actress. Beautiful girl is best known for her roles in the films Sisters, Lilya 4-ever, The Bourne Supremacy and Hipsters.
Oksana was born on April 19, 1987 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in the family of a mechanic and an accountant. She has a younger sister. In her childhood, the girl worked for a modeling agency and took part in shows. Once the head of a modeling agency invited girls to take part in the casting for the upcoming feature film Sisters. So Oksana got her first role.
13-year-old Oksana first appeared on the screen in the film Sisters directed by Sergei Bodrov Jr. Katya Gorina and Oksana received the award for The best acting duo at the Film festival in Sochi in 2001. Thanks to this role Oksana gained popularity and decided to become a professional film actress.
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Renata Litvinova, Russian actress

Renata Litvinova

Renata Litvinova, Russian actress

Renata Litvinova is beautiful, talented, successful, independent. She is an actress, screenwriter, director, producer, television host, author of music videos. She has a lot of awards, including the title Honored Artist of Russia. Brilliant actress starred in the award-winning films Passions, The Tuner, Two in One and Melody for a Street-organ, directed by Kira Muratova, all of which won Nika Awards.
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Renata was born on January 12, 1967 to a Russian mother and a Tatar father, who were doctors. Childhood was the most unpleasant chapter in Renata’s biography. To tell the truth, she does not like to talk about it, even destroyed all her photos.
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Natalia Bochkareva – Russian actress

Natalia Bochkareva

Natalia Bochkareva – Russian actress

Natalia Bochkareva is a theater and film actress, comedian and TV presenter. She is better known for her role of Dasha Bukina in the sitcom Happy Together, the Russian remake of American sitcom Married… with Children. This role brought her huge success. Beautiful actress starred together with Victor Loginov (as her husband), Daria Sagalova (as her daughter), Alexander Yakin (as her son) and others.
Future actress Natalia was born on July 25, 1980 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Her mother worked as an accountant at the Gorky Automobile Plant and her father was a worker at the same plant. Natalia has a younger sister Nadezhda Bochkareva. Being a school girl she was involved in dancing, embroidery, as well as attended classes at modeling school.
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