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Daria Sagalova – Sveta Bukina

Daria Sagalova

Daria Sagalova – Sveta Bukina

Daria Sagalova is a Russian theater and film actress, TV host and choreographer. She is famous for her role of Sveta Bukina, not a very clever blond girl, in the TV series Happy Together, the Russian equivalent of the American TV series Married… With Children.
Daria Dmitrievna Sagalova was born on December 14, 1985 in Podolsk. Pretty girl was seriously engaged in the Dance and Choreography School Fantasia. As a member of Fantasia she participated in Kinotavr and Faces of Love Festivals. At one of the festivals she was noticed by theater director Oleg Butakhin. Oleg invited Dasha to play the role of Cinderella in the eponymous play. Since that moment her acting career began. However, Sagalova’s theater debut took place not in Cinderella but in the play The Nutcracker.
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Maria Mironova

Maria Mironova

Maria Mironova

Maria Mironova is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2006), laureate of many prestigious theatrical and film awards. In addition, she is a member of the Public Chamber of Moscow, president and co-founder of the charity fund Artist.
Maria Andreyevna Mironova was born on May 28, 1973 in Moscow. She is the daughter of Soviet actors Andrey Mironov and Ekaterina Gradova. The girl’s mother was famous for her role of radio operator Kat in the TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring. The future actress was named after her grandmother, Mironov’s mother – Maria Vladimirovna Mironova. In late 1973, almost immediately after the birth of the baby, Mironov left the family. Later he married actress Larisa Golubkina and adopted her daughter Maria Golubkina.
By the way, Masha Mironova played her first film role, when she was 10 years old.
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Marina Aleksandrova – Russian actress

Marina Alexandrova

Marina Aleksandrova – Russian actress

Russian actress Marina Aleksandrova was born on August 28, 1982 in the Hungarian town Kiskunmajsa.
Her real name is Marina Pupenina. She is the only child in the family. Her father, Andrei Pupenin served in the Soviet army, located in Hungary, and her mother worked as a professor at the Herzen University. At the age of 5 the girl with her family moved to St. Petersburg, where she was engaged in a drama school Imagine.
By the way, in 1992, Marina played the role of a little girl with flowers in the film Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach. Parents wanted their daughter to be a translator or a tourism manager. But the girl dreamed of becoming an actress.
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Anna Azarova – model and actress

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Anna Azarova – model and actress

Anna Azarova, famous Russian actress and model, became popular not only because of her bright appearance, but also because of her enormous talent. Awesome girl starred in many films and worked with the best modeling agencies and glossy magazines. She is a woman, who has achieved everything that she wanted.
Anna was born on August 26, 1980 in an ordinary Moscow family. Her father worked as an engineer and her mother was a housewife. The girl even didn’t dream of becoming a famous model. But one day the fate gave her a chance.
15-year-old girl was walking with her mother when they met a woman. “What an interesting face!”- she cried. The woman was the manager of the French modeling agency and invited Anna to try her hand as a model.
When Azarova graduated from school, she was offered a job in France.
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Nonna Grishaeva – Russian actress

Nonna Grishaeva

Nonna Grishaeva – Russian actress

Nonna Grishaeva is a Soviet and Russian theater, film and television actress, parodist, TV presenter and singer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2006), artistic director of the Moscow Region Young Spectator’s Theatre (since June 26, 2014). The actress has the right to be proud of her ancestors. Her great-grandfather and great-grandmother sang at La Scala. Another great-grandfather was a professor at the Novorossiysk University.
Nonna Valentinaovna Grishaeva was born on July 21, 1971 in Odessa, Soviet Union. She grew up in her native Odessa, studied at the ballet school, tried her hand at theater and dreamed of becoming a brilliant actress.
9-year-old Nonna played her first leading role in the Odessa Theater of Operetta.
After school Grishaeva went to Moscow to enter the Theater Institute. However, her mother didn’t want to leave her young daughter alone in a strange big city. So, Nonna had to come back and enter the School of Music.
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Anna Semenovich – Hot Russian Girl

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Anna Semenovich – Hot Russian Girl

Anna Semenovich is the phenomenon of the Russian reality: professional athlete, who became a popular singer, TV presenter, actress and model. She is one of the most brilliant women in Russia, the country of hot girls, cold weather and famous theaters.
Anna was born on March 1, 1980 in Moscow. Semenovich has a younger brother. When the girl was two years old, she was hospitalized with arthritis. The disease was severe, so doctors advised her to do sports. At the age of three little Anya began to skate.
After school, she entered the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture. Her coaches were known Soviet athletes shone on the world ice arenas – Elena Tchaikovsky, Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov.
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Alla Dovlatova – radio and TV presenter

Alla Dovlatova

Alla Dovlatova – radio and TV presenter

Alla Dovlatova is a Russian radio and TV presenter, actress and the most beautiful DJ. To tell the truth, her real name is Marina Evstrakhina.
Alla was born on August 16, 1974 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Her father, Alexander Evstrakhin is a President of the Saint Petersburg Ice Hockey Federation.
Beautiful Alla graduated from the St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Journalism in 1996. Since 1990 she has worked as a radio host (1992 – New Petersburg, 1994 – Modern, 2002 -Russian Radio, 2008 – Mayak, 2012 – Radio Romantika, 2013 – Ru FM).
In 1990, she was an author and host of a student program Neva Wave. And then, in 1992, Alla joined New Petersburg radio, where she was an author and the host of Cowperwood Club and W-E-studio. At the same time, she was a TV presenter of Music exam on RTR.
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