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Olesya Yurivna Rulina is a Russian-American actress. She is best known for co-starring in all three films of the High School Musical franchise as Kelsi Nielsen. She also starred in the films Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous (2008), Flying By (2009), Expecting Mary (2010) and Family Weekend (2013).- Eve Harlow was born on 20 June 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for The 100 (2014), Next (2020) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
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Tina Ivlev is an American actress best known for her role as Nightsister Merrin in the hit action-adventure video games "Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order" and "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor." Ivlev played Nightsister Merrin, the last surviving Nightsister on Dathomir, providing her likeness as well as full performance-capture and voice-acting work for the role.
Starring as Eve in the thriller, "Bound to Vengeance," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Ivlev garnered much praise for her tour de force performance as a young woman who outwits her kidnapper (Richard Tyson) and attempts to rescue his other victims.
Recently on stage, Ivlev originated the lead role of Ester in the gripping drama, "Dry Land," a Colt Coeur production written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. The play, which immediately became a New York Times Critics' Pick, played to sold out houses in New York.
Her other screen credits include "Charming the Hearts of Men" opposite Sean Astin and Kelsey Grammar, "Deadtectives," and "Death Clique." She has appeared in several guest-starring and recurring television roles, including "Shameless," "All Rise," "Queen of the South," "9-1-1," "Zach Stone is Gonna be Famous," and "Major Crimes" among many others.- Actress
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Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress, known for her roles in
Bless the Woman (2003)
and in
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
She was born Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova on January 21, 1983, in
Moscow and spent her childhood in Zheleznodorozhny, a small city about
6 miles east of Moscow, Russia. She was raised by a single mother,
attended a public school, and once dreamed of becoming a medical
doctor.
In 1998, at the age of 15, she started a career as a fashion model in
Moscow, and also made a few international gigs. In 2000 she began her
studies at the Moscow Institute of World Economics, but quit in favor
of acting. From 2001 to 2005 she studied acting at the Shchukin
Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There she
attended the class of Nina Doroshina and
Alekandr Lyubimtsev, graduating in 2005 as actress.
While a student, she starred in films of directors
Stanislav Govorukhin, and
Viktor Merezhko, and also appeared in
popular Russian TV series. In 2008, she earned the best actress award
at Gdynya Polish Film Festival, for the leading role in
Mala Moskwa (2008). In 2012, she won
COFCA Award for
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
On December 13, 2005, she married her classmate, actor
Vladimir Yaglych, and also took her
husband's name, changing her name from Svetlana Khodchenkova to
Svetlana Yaglych.The couple married on the 13th on purpose; because all
their filming contracts were signed on the 13th, they believed that 13
would keep working as a good number for them. However, their marriage
did not last, ending in divorce.
Svetlana has been involved in several stage productions of Independent
stage project in Moscow. She made stellar appearances in such plays, as
"Moulin Rouge Hospital" and "Theatre with and without rules" earning
herself much critical acclaim.
Outside of her acting profession, Svetlana is skilled in horse-back
riding. She is also fond of winter sports, such as alpine skiing: she
practiced her downhill at the ski resort of Courchevel, France.- Born in Moscow, a student of Moscow Academy of Dramatic Arts, Pasha (aka Pavel) Lychnikoff, appeared on Moscow's stages in such productions as Gogol's Inspector General and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. In early 90s Pasha moved to the United States to pursue his acting career there. Arriving at JFK Airport with five dollars in his pocket, speaking only a few words of English, Pasha made his way to Brighton Beach, Harlem, Hell's Kitchen, and then to Los Angeles to act.
As Pasha's career unfolded, he was introduced to bright minds that molded him as an actor and person. He first received a great helping hand and insight from Jonathan Banks at UCLA Film Theatre Department, which was followed by encouragement from private lessons with The Groundlings' creator Gary Austin. Jumping the fence at Twenty Century Fox paid off. Pasha was able to land his first television guest star role on the critically acclaimed NYPD Blue. This opportunity also earned him his membership with Screen Actors Guild. While working on NYPD Blue, Pasha became great friends with writer, creator, and executive producer David Milch. For the rest of Pasha's life, Milch became a mentor and friend who helped him greatly through his career.
While Pasha was living his dream of acting on television, little did he know that he was the first ever Russian to become a series regular on US television. Pasha's first series regular role was on David Milch and Tony Yarkovich's TV drama "Big Apple" on CBS after which he has had more than 40 TV guest appearances.
Lychnikoff continues to build an impressive resume in both television and film. Pasha has starred as Balzanov, a telegraph operator, in a lawless town of the second and third seasons of the critically acclaimed HBO series "Deadwood", created by David Milch. On the comedy side of acting, he had a recurring role on Chuck Lorre's comedy "The Big Bang Theory" as cosmonaut Dmitri Rezenov, and a lead role on the Russian hit series and number one comedy "Fizruk" as hysterical Misha Buddhist. His film credits include "Miami Vice" directed by Michael Mann with Colin Farell and Jamie Foxx, "Charlie Wilson's War" directed by Mike Nichols with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" directed by Steven Spielberg, "Star Trek" directed by J.J. Abrams, and "A Good Day to Die Hard" with Bruce Willis, and Motherland by Peter Buslov.
Pasha has a big passion for theater which extended beyond acting to producing. The Shelter, which he created alongside Valeri Belykovich, was his production debut in Los Angeles. The play got 5 Ovation Awards nominations in 2006 in 5 different categories including the World Premier Play, Play Intimate Theater, Direction of a Play, the Ensemble Performance, and Lighting Design. His performance in the play got him rave reviews by a number of critics.
In this coming acting season, Pasha will be seen in multiple projects such as a recurring on the 4th season of "Ray Donovan", mini series "Insomnia", and Sony Entertainment's "Beyond Valkyrie: the 4th Reich". - Actor
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Danila Valeryevich Kozlovsky is a Russian stage and screen actor. He was
born in Moscow, USSR. From a very young age he was into music, dancing
and playing football (soccer). He has two brothers, an elder Egor and a
younger Ivan.
In 1996, at the age of 11, Danila, following his brothers, went to a
special navy school preparing students for the Military Academy of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2002 he graduated from the school, but
eventually acting won him. However, he does not think that the years
spent at the navy school were wasted.- Producer
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Genndy Tartakovsky was born and raised in Moscow, USSR. He and his
family moved to Chicago, IL when he was 7 years old, after his father
defected to the US. His interest in comic books and animation led him
to study animation at CalArts in Los Angeles. While he was there he
produced two student films, one of which was the basis of his series
Dexter's Laboratory (1996). The character of Dee-Dee was inspired by his older brother Alex, who
would often spoil younger brother Genndy's plans (as Dee-Dee does to
Dexter). His first long form directing work was for the TV movie of the series, Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip (1999). He also directed animation for his collaborator Craig McCracken on The Powerpuff Girls (1998) and The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).
His most celebrated work was the epic animated series Samurai Jack (2001), featuring a time-traveling samurai in a battle of good vs. evil. He stopped work on the series to produce Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) as a direct story tie-in to the beginning of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). He then directed animation for the Adult Swim pilot Korgoth of Barbaria (2006). Plans were up in the air for over a decade for a possible movie conclusion to Samurai Jack, as well as directing a sequel to The Dark Crystal (1982). He created storyboards for the action-packed opening of Iron Man 2 (2010) during this time period.
Genndy produced another dynamic TV series Sym-Bionic Titan (2010), before finally landing his first feature on Hotel Transylvania (2012), which would involve taking over a tumultuous production and incorporating 2D techniques to 3D animation. Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) was the first film for which he had creative control over the entire production, although it was still in the style developed during the first film. In 2017, he finally returned to direct a darker season of Samurai Jack to conclude the story on Adult Swim. He is currently directing Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018).- Actress
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Eugenia Kuzmina is a Russian-American actress, comedian, and model.
Her father was a renowned nuclear physicist who was one of the first responds to the Chornobyl disaster. Her mother is a former scientist and a housewife. Eugenia grew up on food lines in Post Soviet time. She was training to be a professional ice skater when at 13 years old, she was pulled out from a group of kids in her school to appear in a Russian version of SNL "Eralash." She was then cast to appear in Chuck Norris's film but couldn't leave the country due to visa issues. After appearing in commercials for Coca-Cola, L'Oréal, and Wrigleys in Moscow, for which she was paid more than her scientist's dad, she was noticed by a scout at Nathalie Models Europe. She signed a contract and moved to Paris at 15 to work with such brands as Yves Saint Laurent, Cartier, Dior, Armani, Hermes, Loreal, and Vogue, among many others...
After Ford Models, then IMG signed her contract and moved her to the US, she was noticed by Rodrigo Prieto (cinematographer of " Wolf Of Wall Street," "Babel") to appear in his directorial debut opposite Elle Fanning "Likeness." The movie was screened at Tribeca Film Festival and received excellent reviews. John Turturro cast Eugenia to play opposite him in a film with Woody Allen, "Fading Gigolo." Recently Eugenia worked opposite Bill Murray in "Rock The Kasbah," Milla Kunis and Christina Applegate in "Bad Moms, "Guy Ritchie's " The Gentlemen, "Operation Fortune, "etc. Eugenia's Tv credits include " Spy City, "True Blood," "New Girl," "Castle," "The Comeback," "Lady Dynamite," Tour De Pharmacy, "etc.
Eugenia is very passionate about comedy and writes and performs Stand Up regularly at The Comedy Store and The Laugh Factory. She has created a show, " Models of Comedy, "that is touring around the world. Her other hobbies include motorcycles, doing her own stunts, languages (French, Portuguese), and supporting environmental causes worldwide.
Kuzmina resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Bill Block ( Miramax CEO ), and two children.- Actress
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Anastasia Baranova was born on 23 April 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Greenland (2020) and Leave the World Behind (2023).- Actress
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Ania Bukstein is an Israeli actress, singer, song-writer, pianist and voice actress.
She was born in 1982 in Moscow, USSR, to Jewish parents. As a child in Moscow, she studied classical piano. Her family immigrated to Israel in the early 1990s. She began her acting career at age 12, appearing in the film Eretz Hadasha (A New Country). As a teenager, she attended Telma Yalin Arts High School in Givatayim, Israel. She served for two years in the Israeli Air Force. She married Israeli real estate developer Dotan Vainer in 2013. In Game of Thrones, she portrays Kinvara in the sixth season.- Director
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Ilya Naishuller is a film director, actor, producer, screenwriter and the frontman of indie rock band Biting Elbows, founded in 2008. From 8 to 14 he studied in London, and later graduated from the British International School in Yasenevo. Naishuller dropped out of the Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting, then entered university in New York, but did not graduate. In March 2013, Ilya directed the Biting Elbows' "Bad Motherfucker" YouTube video with over 45 million views.
In 2015, Naishuller wrote and directed the action movie "Hardcore Henry" with Shalto Copley, Hayley Bennett, Danila Kozlovsky, Dariya Charusha and Svetlana Ustinova; and also produced and co-directed the TV series "Barvikha." He shot a video for The Weeknd's "False Alarm" in 2016, a video for the group "Kolshchik" in 2017, and recently directed the hit action-comedy "Nobody" starring Bob Odenkirk in 2021. Naishuller married actress Dariya Charusha in the summer of 2010.- Actor
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Eugene Mirman was born on 24 July 1974 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and writer, known for The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022), Delocated (2009) and Eugene! (2012). He was previously married to Katie Tharp.- Lyubov Aksyonova was born on 15 March 1990 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Coma (2019), Moscow Never Sleeps (2017) and Byvshie (2018). She has been married to Pavel Aksyonov since February 2013.
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Weronika Ksiazkiewicz was born on 21 March 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Return to Legoland (2021), Furioza (2021) and Szczescia chodza parami (2022).- Actress
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Alena Savostikova is a Russian born model. She established her career within the high pressures of the European market, later exploring Asia in the interests of furthering her knowledge and becoming a more diverse leader of the industry.
Currently resides in Los Angeles, California, Alena is pursuing an acting career. She recently worked on the highly coveted television shows "Mindy Kaling Project", "Mixology", "Rizzoli & Isles" and also played one of the leading roles in "Mummy Resurructed". Alena is known for her lead role in Chinese blockbuster "The Great Guys" and soon to be released film "Higher Mission".
Alena is working with the production company Eastern Shadows on the film "Tokyo Prion" which is rumored to be released later this year.
You can find Alena in her recent campaigns for FILA, Kswiss, John Frieda, Fuji Film, Beaver Hair Products, Samsung, Megafon, Bench Body and many others.
She also had the pleasure of starring in Benny Benassi's "Let This Last Forever", Michael Jackson's "Behind the Mask", All American Rejects "Kids On The Street", Celine Dion ft. Ne-Yo "Incredible", Above & Beyond's "Blue Sky Action", Placebo's "Loud Like Love" and J Soul Brothers (EXILE) "R.Y.U.S.E.I." music videos.- Actor
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Yuri Kolokolnikov was born on December 15, 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union is a Russian actor of theatre and cinema. His best known roles in television series are Styr in the Game of Thrones (2011) and Gennadi Bystrov in The Americans (2013). His parents divorced shortly after Yuri was born and in 1985 his mother moved to Canada with Yuri and his brother. Kolokolnikov is a citizen of Russia and Canada.
Kolokolnikov as a child, was both unruly and uncontrollable. Unable to cope with the upbringing of her son, his mother sent him back to Russia to live with his father.
Almost immediately after his arrival in Moscow, he went to study at film school and became involved with the production of children shows. Soon afterwards, his father took him to audition for the director Savva Kulish, where Kolokolnikov gained a small role in the film Zheleznyy zanaves (1994).
At 15 years old, he passed external exams for the last two classes of high school and submitted his documents to the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.
In 2000, immediately after graduation, he went to Hollywood. During the year, he lived in Los Angeles and New York, working part-time as a waiter, a courier, a loader. Unable to break into the American cinema Kolokolnikov returned to Moscow.
He has appeared in more than forty films since 1998. Kolokolnikov met with director Kirill Serebrennikov, who invited him for a role in the television series The Murderer's Diary (2003) and in the staging of Sweet Bird of Youth at the theater Sovremennik Theatre. The premiere took place in 2002.
In 2014, he played the role of Styr, Magnar of Thenn, in the fourth season of the television series Game of Thrones (2011).
In 2015, he played a lead role in the Russian sitcom Ozabochennye (2015), and in one episode of the criminal series The Method (2015) by Yuriy Bykov.
He had a lead role in the Russian 2016 comedy film Zavtrak u papy (2016). The film is about a wealthy man who discovers that he has a 10 year old daughter.
In the 2017 American action-comedy The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), Kolokolnikov played a Belarusian mercenary leader Ivan.- Writer
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The Russian theatre and film director Andrei Konchalovsky is an elder
brother of Nikita Mikhalkov, born August, 20, 1937. As a youngster he
planned to pursue a career of a musician and learned to play piano but
his love for cinema outweighed and he entered VGIK-the major state film
school where he studied under Mikhail Romm. At VGIK he met Andrei Tarkovsky, they collaborated on Ivan's Childhood (1962) and Andrei Rublev (1966). For his feature debut The First Teacher (1965), he chose the book by Chingiz Aitmatov about the post-1917 Revolution period in the southern Russia. His next film Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh (1966) although made
in 1966 was not released until a decade later because it failed to
comply with the strict requirements of the Russian censorship of the
period. A Nest of Gentry (1969) - a study of the 19 c. aristocracy -
was praised for its visual beauty but attacked by critics as mannered.
Konchalovsky's powerful Uncle Vanya (1970) from the play by 'Anton Chekhov_ is regarded by many people as one of the best films in the Russian language ever. Siberiade (1979) - a dramatic and realistic story of the lives of the people of Siberia - was internationally acclaimed and brought Konchalovsky to the attention of American and European producers. From then on-wards his career has been international in scope. Pleasing critics and audiences worldwide, he made the English language films Maria's Lovers (1984), Runaway Train (1985), Duet for One (1986) (praised for Max von Sydow's brilliant performance), and the award-winning Homer and Eddie (1989) starring Whoopi Goldberg. Konchalovsky moved to the mainstream territory with the action packed Tango & Cash (1989). Charasteristically he still insists that this work is no less laudable than any of his others. He also directed plays and operas in a number of European cities. In the early 1990s he returned to Russia and directed several theatre productions most notably "The Seagull" by Chekhov and "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. Residing in Moscow Konchalovsky sometimes makes short excursions to Hollywood to make mainstream TV productions like the Emmy-winning The Odyssey (1997) and The Lion in Winter (2003) in which Glenn Close gave an award-winning performance. His Russian-French co-production House of Fools (2002) - a story set in an asylum that stands on the border between Russia and Chechenya during the war in Chechenya - was warmly received in Europe and won an honor at the 2002 Venice Film Festival. However the film antagonized the critics in Russia. In the very beginning of his career he was credited as Mikhalkov- Konchalovsky. Later he adopted his mother's maiden name to distinguish himself from his younger brother, Nikita Mikhalkov, who was rapidly becoming a famous filmmaker himself. For his last feature film The Postman's White Nights (2014), shot digitally in his home country Russia, Andrey Konchalovsky won the 'Best Director' award at the 'Venice International Film Festival' in 2014.- Feodor Fedorovich Chaliapin Jr. was born October 6, 1905, in Moscow,
Russia. He was the youngest of six children. His father was the
world-famous Russian Opera basso
Feodor Chaliapin Sr.. His mother,
Iola Tornagi, was a prima-ballerina who quit the stage after her
marriage and became a caring mother of six children. Young Feodor grew
up in a trilingual family environment. He received an excellent private
education in Moscow, where he enjoyed the company of his father's
friends, such as Sergei Rachmaninoff
and Konstantin Korovin. After the
Russian revolution of 1917, he and his father fled from Russia to Paris, France.
Chaliapin Jr. got out from under his father's shadow after moving from
Paris to Hollywood. There he began his film career, playing cameo roles
in silent films. He created a niche for himself as an impressive
character actor with excellent skills. His role as Kashkin, dying in
the arms of Gary Cooper in
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943),
was one of the finest moments in his early career. He played a variety
of Russian characters in films made during and after the Second World
War. Among the most memorable of his early works was his role as Fomich
in
Prisoner of the Volga (1959),
directed by Viktor Tourjansky, also a
Russian emigrant.
After World War 2 Chaliapin moved to Rome, Italy. There he continued
his film career as a character actor, from the 1950s-1970s. He played a
broad array of very different characters, ranging from a comic gem as
Sen. Torsello in the political satire
The Eroticist (1972),
to a sinister Prof. Arnold in the horror film
Inferno (1980). He returned to Hollywood
and made a comeback in his later years. He really made his mark by
playing the blind, murderous monk "Jorge of Burgos" in
The Name of the Rose (1986). He is
probably best known for his role as the loony dog-walking grandfather
in Moonstruck (1987), living in a
world of his own and greeting the Moon with his funny cries "La Luna!
La Luna!" He also enjoyed a fine part as Leonides Cox, 'Robert De
Niro''s father in
Stanley & Iris (1990). His last
notable role was as Prof. Bartnev in
The Inner Circle (1991), based
on a true story about people suffering in the Soviet Russia under the
dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.
In 1960, during "The Thaw" initiated by
Nikita Khrushchev, Chaliapin Jr. saved
his mother from the communist captivity and reunited with her in Rome,
Italy. At that time, Iola Tornagi was 87 and had been granted
permission to leave the Soviet Union. She left behind a magnificent art
collection and a museum-quality home, built in Moscow by her famous
husband. She could only bring her son an album of pictures of his
childhood and youth in pre-communist Russia.
24 years later, Chaliapin Jr. took part in the returning of his famous
father's remains from Paris to Moscow in 1984, which was also a result
of reforms known as perestroika initiated by
Mikhail Gorbachev. Chaliapin was
allowed to visit Moscow in 1984 for the burial ceremony of his father,
Chialiapin Sr., at the Novodevichy Monastery Cemetery. There he briefly
rejoiced with his three sisters and other relatives around his father's
tomb.
Through his entire life Feodor Feodorovich Chaliapin Jr. was devoted to
his mother, Iola Tornagi. She died in 1964, and was laid to rest in the
cemetery of Rome. He died of natural causes on September 17, 1992, at
his home in Rome, Italy, and was laid to rest next to his mother in the
cemetery of Rome. - Actress
Jenya Lano is an American actress and voice-over artist of European descent. A Berkeley graduate, she is known for "Blade" (1998), "Killing Cupid" (2005), "S.W.A.T." (2003), "NCIS", "The Shield" (2002), "Xena: Warrior Princess" and many other film and TV projects. Currently, (2023), Jenya resides and works in Los Angeles, California. She is fluent in three languages and enjoys writing.- Irina Vladimirovna Starshenbaum. Born in Moscow. She is a Russian stage and film actress and television presenter.
Her mother is a professional hairdresser. Her grandparents are also hairdressers. That is why, from a very young age, Irina always stood out among her peers with extravagant hairstyles.
Her cousin is the famous actress Anna Starshenbaum.
She decided to become an actress in high school, planned to take acting classes, but her parents and school teachers dissuaded her. They told her that she "should get a serious profession" because "acting doesn't make money".
The young Irina chose, in her words, "a mix" of advertising, public relations and journalism. She entered the Faculty of Communications and Media Business at Moscow Polytechnic University. At the same time, he took courses in theater art, rhetoric and philosophy at Moscow State University of Psychology and Pedagogy.
She worked as a presenter of entertainment programs on Russian television and also collaborated in theaters.
She made her screen debut in 2015, playing the lead role, in the melodrama series The Crossing (2015).
She gained great popularity after filming the comedy series of STS channel TKrysha mira (2015), in which she played the role of an female adventurer.
Irina also achieved great recognition for her vivid role in the detective crime drama "Shakal", in which she played Kalina Poltavchenko, an employee of the State Film Fund, a friend of the protagonist of the series.
In January 2017, the blockbuster Attraction (2017) directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, in which the actress played one of the main roles, was released. According to the plot, an unidentified object is shot down over Moscow initiating a state of emergency in the city.
In early 2018, the sci-fi drama series Lachuga dolzhnika (2018), directed by Alexander Kott and based on a novel by Vadim Shefner, was released. The actress plays one of the main roles: the beautiful Ella, for whose heart the male characters fight.
She played the role of Natasha, Mike Naumenko's wife in the film Leto (2018), a biographical musical drama directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. The film tells about the beginning of the creative path of Viktor Tsoi and the group Kino, his relationship with Mike Naumenko, his wife Natasha and many of those who were at the forefront of the 1981 Leningrad rock movement.
In 2018 she was one of the leading ladies in the war drama T-34 (2018) by Aleksey Sidorov.
She shot in 2020 the sequel to Attraction (2017) also directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, titled Invasion (2020).
2021 was the year of filming the drama and comedy series Dzhetlag (2021).
In 2022 comes her first venture outside Russia, with the Germanic film Dark Satellites (2022). - Actor
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Daniel Donskoy was born on 27 January 1990 in Moscow, USSR. He is an actor and producer, known for Barbarians (2020), A Small Light (2023) and Victoria (2016).- Actor
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Aleksey Serebryakov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Aleksey was born in Moscow. His mother was a doctor, father was an aircraft engineer. Aleksey studied at a music school in the bayan class and once got into a photo for a report about an educational institution, which was published in the 'Evening Moscow' newspaper. The photo caught the eye of an assistant director who was looking for a boy who looked like the actor Vadim Spiridonov, and Aleksey got into the film Otets i syn (1980), and then into the TV series Vechnyy zov (1973). Then he played the main role of Vladimir Kovalev in the film Alye pogony (1980).
In 1981, Serebryakov worked as an actor at the Syzran Drama Theater named after Aleksei Tolstoy, after he could not enter the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute. In 1986 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts of Anatoli Lunacharsky (workshop of Oleg Tabakov). In 1986-1991, he was an actor at the Studio Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov.
In 2000, Serebryakov played crime boss Oleg Zvantsev, nicknamed 'Lawyer' in the series Banditskiy Peterburg: Advokat (2000). The next major work, which caused a wide resonance, was the main role of the battalion commander Vasiliy Tverdokhlebov in the 2004 series Shtrafbat (2004). It can be said that at that moment Serebryakov finally gained a reputation as a person who brilliantly plays ambiguous characters in ambiguous films.
He played the main role in the social drama Leviathan (2014), which was released worldwide in 2014. For this acting work, for the second time in the history of Russian cinema, he was nominated for the European Film Academy Award.- Actor
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Nikita Mikhalkov is the son of the famous communist poet
Sergey Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics
of the Soviet national anthem and had strong connections to the
Communist Party. Nikita Mikhalkov's mother, Natalya Petrovna
Konchalovskaya, was also a poet and daughter of famous painter Pyotr
Petrovich Konchalovsky and his wife Olga Vasilievna Surikova, and by
her the great granddaughter of another great painter Vasily Surikov.
And then last, but not least, Nikita Mikhalkov is the brother of
Andrey Konchalovskiy, also a
distinguished film director who, unlike Nikita, has worked in the USA.
Not only did Mikhalkov direct the Academy Award-winning film "Burnt by
the Sun" but he is also well-known as a versatile actor, having
appeared in over 40 films, including the role of the Russian Tsar
Alexander III in his own "The Barber of Siberia" (1998).
Mikhalkov has an impressively long list of wins at the most prestigious
film festivals, like Cannes, Venice, Moscow or Karlovy Vary.
Following his movie's Oscar win for Best Foreign Language Film, Nikita
Mikhalkov won a parliamentary seat in the then Prime Minister
Victor Chernomyrdin's party.
He is always in the spotlight, especially in Moscow, where he resides.- Anna Kournikova is a Russian former professional tennis player and American television personality. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide.
Despite never winning a singles title, she reached No. 8 in the world in 2000. She achieved greater success playing doubles, where she was at times the world No. 1 player. With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002, and the WTA Championships in 1999 and 2000. Her pro career doubles record was 200-71. Her singles record is 209-129.
Kournikova retired at the age of 21 due to serious back and spinal problems. She was a new trainer for season 12 of the television show The Biggest Loser, replacing Jillian Michaels, but did not return for season 13. In addition to her tennis and television work, Kournikova serves as a Global Ambassador for Population Services International's "Five & Alive" program, which addresses health crises facing children under the age of five and their families. - Actor
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Ravil Isyanov was born in 1962 in the Soviet Union in Greater Moscow area, the city of Voskresensk. Throughout childhood, Ravil attended classes in music, ballet, theatre, as well as going for sports - ice hockey, boxing and soccer among them. After completing his two years national service in the Soviet Air Force, Ravil worked for two seasons in Khabarovsk Theatre. Then, he studied in the Moscow Art Theatre School for four years. He simultaneously studied three summers at the Oxford branch of the British American Drama Academy. In 1990 Ravil went to the UK at the invitation of Theater Clwyd, Wales. After the collapse of the USSR, he stayed in Britain and continued working there. In 1998 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film career, where he worked and lived for the rest of his life.- Jonathan M. Woodward was born on 20 November 1973 in Moscow, Idaho, USA. He is an actor, known for Firefly (2002), Angel (1999) and Pipe Dream (2002).
- Marta Kessler was born on 8 August 2009 in Moscow, Russia. She is an actress, known for The Mysterious Benedict Society (2021), Cosmoball (2020) and Union of Salvation (2019).
- Stasya Miloslavskaya was born in Moscow on May 4, 1995. As a child, she trained at the Rampa Children's Theatre Studio. She also graduated from a music school where she played the piano. In 2013 she entered Moscow Art Theatre School (Evgeniy Pisarev's class). After her graduation in 2017, she joined the company of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. As of now (2021) she is part of the Yermolova Theatre company.
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Alexei Navalny was born on 4 June 1976 in Butyn, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Navalny (2022), The Case Is Solved. I Know Everyone Who Tried to Kill Me (2020) and Parazity (2020). He was married to Yulia Navalnaya. He died on 16 February 2024 in FKU IK-3 Prison, Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.- Alina Boz is a Turkish-Russian actress. Alina Boz was born in Moscow, Russia. Alina's mother 'Olga' is Russian and her father is Turkish of Bulgarian Turks descent. She lived in Russia until she was 7 years old. In 2005, she came to Istanbul for her father's job. She started Primary school in Istanbul. After moving to Turkey, she started dancing and theater. At the age of nine she started studying theater. First, she played as Canan in Cesur Hemsire. Alina Boz, who also starred in Avea ads with Ata Demirer, has appeared in many commercials. Alina Boz, who was associated with Murat Boz for her surname, became the cover face of Heygirl magazine in 2010 with Murat Boz. She studied at the aviation vocational high school.She is studying theatre department of Kadir Has University. Since December 1, 2014, Alina Boz plays as Hazal Gürpinar in Paramparça (TV series) and she has got co-lead role and started to be recognized.
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Alexis Raben was born on 25 August 1980 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress and producer, known for House of the Dragon (2022), Krypton (2018) and Miss March (2009). She has been married to Miguel Sapochnik since 2006.- Actress
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Anya Chipovskaya was born on 16 June 1987 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for The Road to Calvary (2017), Blokbaster (2017) and The Calculator (2014).- Actress
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In 1998, Yekaterina Rednikova received a Nika award (the "Russian
Oscar") for her performance in, "The Thief" by Pavel Chukrai. This was
her first lead role. Yekaterina traveled with "The Thief" to Los
Angeles, where it was nominated for "Best Foreign Language Picture" by
the Academy. This role, for which she was called, "the Russian Liv
Ullman" by Italian critics at the Venice film festival, led Katerina to
pursue an international career.
Rednikova was born in Moscow, the daughter of an engineer, Valeriy
Rednikov, and an accountant, Yelena Rednikova. Her older brother,
Dmitriy, was a physicist and worked on the aftermath of the Chernobyl
catastrophe before becoming a screenwriter.
Yekaterina stepped on a stage for the first time when she was 6 and
played two small roles with one of the biggest theater companies in
Moscow: Lenkom. One of the accomplished actors with whom she shared the
stage wrote her an autograph that changed her life and encouraged her
to become an actress.
Yekaterina entered the very competitive Russian Theater Academy (GITIS)
at the age of 17. After graduating from the Theater Academy, she worked
with several theater companies, more often in American classics such as
"A Streetcar named Desire" and "Beyond the Horizon" than in Russian
plays, which is ironic since Yekaterina is a relative of classic
Russian playwright Anton Chekov.
After "The Thief", Yekaterina played lead roles in movies in Russia,
Turkey, Great Britain and the United States. She was nominated for
"best Turkish actress" at the Turkish Critic Awards in 2000 for her
performance in the Turkish movie, "Balalayka", which was quite an
accomplishment since she did not speak Turkish before arriving on set.
In 2005, Yekaterina played the female lead opposite Daniel Craig in the
BBC production, "Archangel".
Since 2003, Yekaterina has been living in Moscow and in Los Angeles. At
the moment, she is preparing for the role of Raisa Gorbachev in the
upcoming project, "Raisa", based on the life of former Russian
President Michael Gorbachev.- Russian Award-winning actress Darya Ekamasova was born and raised in Moscow, Russia.
She graduated from a music college, playing piano.
At the age of 16, she was invited to star in a film by the famous Russian director Andrew Proshkin. She played a girl from an orphanage named Cicciolina. Darya really liked acting in films and, despite disagreements with her parents, she left music and entered the oldest Russian Academy of Theater Arts. During her studies, Darya starred with famous Russian directors such as Boris Khlebnikov, Alexey Fedorchenko, Nikolay Dostal, Nikolay Khomeriki. Films with her participation have repeatedly represented Russia at international film festivals such as Cannes, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, etc.
In 2010, Ekamasova played the lead part in the play "Life is Successful", which received the highest theater Award "Golden Mask".
At the same time, the outstanding Russian director Andrew Smirnov noticed her and invited her to play the lead part in the film "Once upon a time there lived a simple woman". This is a folk drama, in the center of the story is a simple peasant woman Varvara. Through the prism of her life and love, the fate of the country is shown. This performance was highly appreciated by critics and viewers. Darya received all main awards in her country, as well as High Commendations at the Asia Pacific Screen Award and became a member of the Asian Film Academy. This film was shown in many countries and became her hallmark in the world of cinema. The film was screened at the 2012 New York Film Festival. That time Darya first came to America. Her life is divided into before and after. She fell in love with New York and began to fly there regularly.
In 2013, Ekamasova starred in the American film «Fourth Dimension» with Grolsh Film Works and VICE film. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2015, The play "Knock" was premiered at the Lost & Found Theater in New York.
Her work attracted the attention of American producer Ben Barentholtz, who gave the world such outstanding filmmakers as the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, etc.
Barentholtz invited Darya to play the lead part in his directorial debut film «Alina». In August 2017, the premiere took place in Los Angeles, where the film was presented by David Lynch himself. He praised Darya's acting work in this film.
In 2017, one of the best casting directors in America, Rori Bergman, drew attention to her and Ekamasova joined the team of «The Americans», she became a series regular character in seasons 5 and 6. Her partners were Matthew Rice, Carrie Russell and Noah Emmerich.
At the same time, she continued to act in Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine. Her role as Polina Schneider in Aleksey Fedorchenko's film "Angels of the Revolution" was noted by critics at the Rome Film Festival. And in 2017, Darya received the Chopard Talent Award, presented for the first time to a Russian actress.
In 2019, a TV series about the women's Gulag "A.L.Zh.I.R." was released, where Ekamasova played the lead part of Olga Pavlova, who was imprisoned due to the Stalinist repressions of 1937.
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the 72nd Cannes Film Festival premiered «Give Me Liberty». «Give me Liberty» is an absurd and incredibly lyrical comedy by Kirill Mikhanovsky, which won The Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.
She also created a magnificent image of Lenin's famous wife Nadezhda Krupskaya in the film "Lenin. Inevitability" directed by Vladimir Khotinenko, and Yevgeny Mironov himself became her co-star.
And in 2019, the Norwegian TVshow Occupied was released on Netflix, where Darya played a lesbian girl who came under political pressure because of her sharp tongue.
In 2021, the «Khrustalny» TV series by Serbian director Dusan Gligorov was released, which became the best TV series in Russia in 2021. Ekamasova played the main female role of a prostitute Katya Skazka, who helps to catch a pedophile maniac.
In 2022, Darya appears in the series «To the lake 2», which was the first Russian project for Netflix.
In August 2022, at Window to Europe Film Festival, Ekamasova won The Best Actress Award for her performance in the film «Just before» directed by Alisa Erokhina.
She continues to study music and her dream is to play a part of a pianist.
Member of SAG AFTRA - Igor Jijikine is a Russian-American actor best known for his powerful
scenes opposite Harrison Ford in
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
He was born Igor Zhizhikin, in 1965, in Russia. Young Igor was fond of
movies and acting; he was also a good sportsmen. He attended the Moscow
State College of Physical Culture and trained in gymnastics, soccer,
ice skating and snow skiing, graduating as Master of Sports of the
USSR. He also studied acting, martial arts and acrobatics, and
performed with the Moscow State Circus. In 1989, he was with the Moscow
Circus on tour in the USA, but his manager took all the money and
disappeared. At that time 24-year-old Jijikine was left penniless, he
lived on the streets, but still decided to stay and work in America.
Since then, Jijikin's life has been as hectic and turbulent as some of
the characters he played on stage and in film. He survived three
marriages, tried several non-acting jobs, worked as acrobat with such
Las Vegas casinos as Circus-Circus and Stratosphere, founded a circus
agency, and became known as "The Russian Bear" in Las Vegas. In 1991 he
landed the leading part in a Las Vegas production of 'Samson and
Dalilah'. A few years later he worked with the Cirque du Soleil's
"Mysterie" in Las Vegas.
In the 2000s, Jijikine took acting classes in Hollywood. There he was
noticed by an agent, and eventually switched to film, becoming typecast
as a "bad guy." Jijikine made his big screen debut in
Blood Work (2002) under the
directorship of Clint Eastwood, then
appeared opposite Quentin Tarantino in
two episodes of the TV series
Alias (2001). He also appeared in about
40 commercials, and became the face of video game 'Red Alert'.
His big brake came with supporting role as Russian Colonel Dovchenko
opposite Cate Blanchett and
Harrison Ford in the 4th film of
the Indiana Jones franchise, directed by
Steven Spielberg, who called
Jijikine "the best bad guy." - Actress
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Lyanka Gryu's experience in TV and cinema has been truly unique from the very start: she has been working as an actress since the age of 4 when she landed her first lead in the award-winning European film Odin (based on the story by Ray Bradbury).
At 6 she was cast as a prime-time 'Tic-Tac' kids TV show anchor - and led it for 3 years.
When Lyanka was 8 years old she played a role in The Little Princess feature film, which brought her The Best Supporting Role and The Best Female Actor awards.
From 12 till 17 she played lead roles in various theatrical plays, but what made her a nationwide star was the role in 2005's Fated To Become A Star TV series that jump-started her career as a teenage star actress.
Lyanka has vast experience in international productions such as the lead in:- The Chinese hit feature film Scarlet Cherry;
- The Italian award-winning feature film The Bright Side Of The Moon;
- The American award-winning TV show The Americans;
- Pregnancy Test, medical series on the main TV channel of Russia, recognized by the critics with The Best TV Series Of 2015 Award;
- Sherlock Holmes TV series (the role of Irene Adler).
Having become a true A-list star in Russia, Lyanka was cast for a feature film The Return Of Musketeers as D'Artagnan's daughter - Jaqueline.
Her next success - the lead in Golden, TV series by TNT channel and feature film PG 16 - made her a superstar among the teenage and young adult audiences in Russia.
In 2013 she won Ice Age, prime-time ice skating TV show competition, where she was paired with Maxim Marinin - Olympic, World, and five-time European Skating Champion.
And the 2014's box-office hit feature Some Like It Cold had proved her status of a bankable star in her homeland and made Lyanka decide to move to the US to continue her acting career in the heart of the world film industry.
She moved to New York and then to Los Angeles. In 2015 Lyanka got a Green Card as an extraordinary ability artist, than became a SAG-legible actress and successfully started a new stage of her career.
A Russian-American actress known for her roles in The Americans (seasons 5 & 6, FX network), police procedural Blue Bloods (season 7, CBS) and psychological thriller feature Impossible Monsters written about in The Hollywood Reporter.
Her roles in the short films Watch Me and 9.8m/s2 (premiered at Cannes Film Festival) have brought festival awards and nominations: Best Actress (Queen Palm IFF, London City IFF), Best Film (Queen Palm IFF), Best Drama (New York Shorts IFF) & others.- Michael Gor was born on 19 May 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Hunter Killer (2018), Bridge of Spies (2015) and Die Another Day (2002). He has been married to Olesya Markelova since 2010. They have one child. He was previously married to Anna Margolis.
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Familiar character actor of Russian heritage who played in scores of
films, mostly in the U.S. He studied at the University of Moscow but
left there to attend the Moscow Academy of Dramatic Art. He joined the
world- renowned Moscow Art Theatre, where he worked for the next decade
as an actor and assistant director, eventually directing plays himself.
In 1923, he emigrated to Berlin and spent most of the next decade
acting in films there and in Austria. With the coming of the Nazis, he
relocated first to Paris, in 1932, and then to the United States in
1937. He immediately found himself very busy with dozens of roles in
many popular American films, ranging from Russian to Chinese, Mexican,
and Italian characters. Although his specialty was gentle, beatific
characters, he could and did on occasion play less noble types. Among
his most memorable characterizations were Anselmo, the gentle rebel in
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943),
and the wise peasant in
The Magnificent Seven (1960).
He died in West Hollywood, California in 1962.- Buxom and beautiful blonde actress Bobbie Bresee had a sadly short-lived reign as a scream queen in a handful of enjoyably trashy 80s low-budget horror pictures.
Bobbie was born in 1942 in Moscow, Idaho. Her father was a U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant who was killed in Guadalcanal during the Shelling of Henderson Field when she was less than a month old. Her mother married another Marine, Walter Richard Bartosh in 1945, producing her half-sister Sharon Lee Bartosh, born in 1947. Walter adopted her and he and her mother remained married until Walther's passing in 2014. She attended the University of Idaho, was a music teacher and onetime "Playboy" Bunny prior to embarking on an acting career.
Bresee gave a solid and impressive performance as a sweet and lovely young lady who becomes possessed by an evil sexually voracious demon in the fun fright feature Mausoleum (1983). (Bobbie was nominated for a Saturn Award as Best Actress for her fine acting in this film.) Bresee was quite funny as Smeg's mom in the crudely amusing Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) and had a memorably sexy bit as a luscious, but lethal temptress in the crummy Ghoulies (1984). Bobbie tackled a semi-autobiographical starring role as a faded aging B-movie starlet who transforms into a murderous humanoid insect monster after taking an experimental youthful serum in the delightfully dreadful Evil Spawn (1987). Bresee popped up in guest spots on the TV shows Charlie's Angels (1976), B.J. and the Bear (1978), The Love Boat (1977), Simon & Simon (1981), and The Fall Guy (1981). She had a recurring part on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara (1984).
In real life Bobbie Bresee is an extremely charming and well-educated woman who plays the piano. - Writer
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821, in
Moscow, Russia. He was the second of seven children of Mikhail
Andreevich and Maria Dostoevsky. His father, a doctor, was a member of
the Russian nobility, owned serfs and had a considerable estate near
Moscow where he lived with his family. It's believed that he was
murdered by his own serfs in revenge for the violence he would commit
against them while in drunken rages. As a child Fyodor was traumatized
when he witnessed the rape of a young female serf and suffered from
epileptic seizures. He was sent to a boarding school, where he studied
sciences, languages and literature. He was devastated when his favorite
writer, Alexander Pushkin, was killed
in a duel in St. Petersburg in 1837. That same year Dostoevsky's mother
died, and he moved to St. Petersburg. There he graduated from the
Military Engineering Academy, and served in the Tsar's government for a
year.
Dostoevsky was active in St. Petersburg literary life; he grew out of
his early influence by Nikolay Gogol,
translated "Eugenia Grande" by
Honoré de Balzac in 1844 and published
his own first novel, "Poor Folk", in 1845, and became friends with
Ivan Turgenev and
Nikolai A. Nekrasov, but it ended
abruptly after they criticized his writing. At that time he became
indirectly involved in a revolutionary movement, for which he was
arrested in 1849, convicted of treason and sentenced to death. His
execution was scheduled for a freezing winter day in St. Petersburg,
and at the appointed hour he was blindfolded and ordered to stand
before the firing squad, waiting to be shot. The execution was called
off at the last minute, however, and his sentence was commuted to a
prison term and exile in Siberia, where his health declined amid
increased epileptic seizures. After serving ten years in prison and
exile, he regained his title in the nobility and returned to St.
Petersburg with permission from the Tsar. He abandoned his formerly
liberal views and became increasingly conservative and religious. That,
however, didn't stop him from developing an acute gambling problem, and
he accumulated massive gambling debts.
In 1862, after returning from his first major tour of Western Europe,
Dostoevsky wrote that "Russia needs to be reformed, by learning the new
ideas that are developing in Europe." On his next trip to Europe, in
1863, he spent all of his money on a manipulative woman, A. Suslova,
went on a losing gambling spree, returned home flat broke and sank into
a depression. At that time he wrote "Notes from Underground" (1864),
preceding existentialism in literature. His first wife died in 1864,
after six years of a childless marriage, and he adopted her son from
her previous marriage. Painful experiences caused him to fall further
into depression, but it was during this period that he wrote what many
consider his finest work: "Crime and Punishment" (1866).
After completion of "The Gambler" (1867), the 47-year-old Dostoevsky
married his loyal friend and literary secretary, 20-year-old Anna
Snitkina, and they had four children. His first baby died at three
months of age, causing him to sink further into depression and
triggering more epileptic seizures. At that time Dostoevsky expressed
his disillusionment with the Utopian ideas in his novels "The Idiot"
(1868) and "The Devils" (aka "The Possessed") (1871), where the "devils"
are destructive people, such as revolutionaries and terrorists.
Dostoevsky was the main speaker at the opening of the monument to
Alexander Pushkin in 1880, calling Pushkin a "wandering Russian,
searching for universal happiness". In his final great novel, "The
Brothers Karamazov" (1880), Dostoevsky revealed the components of his
own split personality, depicted in four main characters; humble monk
Alyosha, compulsive gambler Dmitri, rebellious intellectual Ivan, and
their cynical father Fyodor Karamazov.
Dostoevsky died on February 9, 1881, of a lung hemorrhage caused by
emphysema and epileptic seizures. He lived his entire life under the
pall of epilepsy, much like the mythical "Sword of Damocles", and was
fearless in telling the truth. His writings are an uncanny reflection
on his own life - the fate of a genius in Russia.- Producer
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Alexander Nevsky was born in Moscow. Graduated from Russian State University of Management. Later learned English at the UCLA and studied acting at Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in Los Angeles.
Nevsky is a former amateur boxer and bodybuilder, he won Mister Universe title 3 times (at World Bodybuilding Federation / World Fitness Federation). He is a strong proponent of natural (drug-free) bodybuilding. He is an author of 9 successful books and about fitness and more than 500 articles which were published in Russia and CIS. His new autobiography "Bodybuilding and other secrets of success" was published in Russia in September 2017.
Nevsky is established movie star and a household name in his home country. His TV show "Self Made Man" had an audience of about 20M people weekly on Channel One Russia in 90s. He was featured in most of publications included The Hollywood Reporter Russia, Men's Health Russia, GQ Russia, Playboy Russia etc. His first Hollywood film was Walter Hill's Undisputed, his credits also included Somewhere by Sofia Coppola.
Nevsky produced 7 international action films to date (Moscow Heat, Treasure Raiders, Magic Man, Showdown in Manila among others). He made his directorial debut with an action thriller Black Rose which was a theatrical box office hit in Russia/CIS already and was released by ITN / eOne / Sony in North America in May 2017. His upcoming projects include big budget action comedy Maximum Impact directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (DOOM) and written by Ross LaManna (Rush Hour).
Nevsky is an active member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and he votes for the Golden Globe Awards since 2003. His production company Hollywood Storm based in Los Angeles, California.- Nikita Efremov was born on 30 May 1988 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Tetris (2023), Ballada o bombere (2011) and Ballada o bombere (2011).
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Anastasia Vertinskaya is a popular Russian actress and public figure
best known for her roles as Assol in
Alye parusa (1961) and Ophelia in
Hamlet (1964).
She was born Anastasia Aleksandrovna Vertinskaya on December 19, 1944,
in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (now Moscow, Russia). Her father,
Aleksandr Vertinskiy, was a famous
Russian actor, singer and songwriter, who returned from his emigration
in China to Moscow during the Second World War. Her mother,
Lidiya Vertinskaya (née Lidia
Vladimirovna Tsirgvava), was also a Russian émigré who was born into a
Georgian-Russian family in Kharbin, and her older sister,
Marianna Vertinskaya, was born in
1943, in Shanghai, China. Young Anastasia Vertinskaya had a happy
childhood together with her sister Marianna. She was brought up in a
multi-lingual family where she enjoyed an intellectually stimulating
environment, and a highly cultural atmosphere of her parents circle.
Anastasia Vertinskaya was fond of her father, who invested much of his
talent and energy in his daughter's education. Her famous father died
when Anastasia Vertinskaya was 14, and she suffered from emotional
trauma that cast influence on her most important roles in film, that
she played at the age of 15 to 19, such as Assol, Gutierre, and
Ophelia.
In 1961, at age 15, Vertinskaya made her film debut starring as
love-torn Assol who has a dream about her hero,
Vasiliy Lanovoy. She became an instant
celebrity in the Soviet Union with her first film,
Alye parusa (1961), by director
Aleksandr Ptushko, a popular
adaptation of the eponymous book by
Alexander Grin. Next year she
co-starred as Gutierre in
Amphibian Man (1961)
Vertinskaya shot to international fame starring as Ophelia opposite
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy in
Hamlet (1964), by director
Grigoriy Kozintsev. Meanwhile, she
attended the Shchukin Theatrical School, graduating in 1967, as an
actress. She played supporting roles as Lisa Bolkonskaya in
War and Peace (1965), by director
Sergey Bondarchuk and as Kitty in
Anna Karenina (1967), by director
Aleksandr Zarkhi. She also starred as
Margarita in
Master i Margarita (2006), an
adaptation of the eponymous book by
Mikhail A. Bulgakov.
Anastasiya Vertinskaya was member of several theatrical companies in
Moscow, such as Theatre of Vakhtangov, Taganka, Theatre Sovremennik,
Pushkin Theatre, and Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). Her most acclaimed
stage appearances were as Nina in 'The Seagull' and as Elena in 'Uncle
Vanya', both plays by Anton Chekhov. In a
unique theatrical experiment by director
Anatoli Efros at Taganka, she appeared in
two roles: as Prospero and Ariel in the Shakespeare's Tempest. In 1989
she portrayed her father,
Aleksandr Vertinskiy, in a show that
she also wrote and directed to mark the centennial birthday anniversary
of her father.
Outside of her film career A. Vertinskaya taught acting in Oxford and
in the European film school in Switzerland; she also held a master
class at Comédie-Française (Théâtre de la Républic) and at Chekhov's
school in Paris. She was designated People's Actress of Russia. Since
1991 Anastasiya Vertinskaya has been running the Charitable Foundation
for Actors, which supports such cultural landmarks as the home of
Boris Pasternak and the museum of
Anton Chekhov as well as many other
cultural projects and individual actors and filmmakers. During the
1990s she completed restoration of her father's historic recordings for
a CD release. Anastasiya Vertinskaya was married to director
Nikita Mikhalkov and their son,
Stepan Mikhalkov, is also a filmmaker.- Mariya Mironova was born on 28 May 1974 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Night Watch (2004), Day Watch (2006) and The Courier (2020). She has been married to Andrey since 2018. They have one child. She was previously married to Aleksey Makarov, Igor Udalov and Dmitriy Klokov.
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Vyacheslav Tikhonov was one of Russian cinema's best known faces, he
survived hardship during the Second World War, and became renown for
his portrayal of Russian aristocrats and intellectuals in several
award-winning films, such as
War and Peace (1965) and
White Bim Black Ear (1977).
He was born Vyacheslav Vasilevich Tikhonov on February 8, 1928, in a
small town of Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow, USSR (now Moscow, Russia).
His father, Vasili Romanovich Tikhonov, was a technician at a local
garment factory. His mother, Valentina Vyacheslavovna, was a
kindergarten teacher. Tikhonov's first profession was that of a
metal-worker during the Second World War. The war later became the main
theme in some of his most notable film works. Young Tikhonov was
obsessed with movies, his favorite actors were
Nikolay Cherkasov as Aleksandr Nevsky,
and Boris Babochkin as Chapaev. From
1945-1950 Tikhonov studied at the State Institute of Cinema (VGIK). He
made his film debut in
The Young Guard (1948) by
director Sergey Gerasimov. During the
filming of Molodaya Gvardiya Tikhonov met his first wife,
Nonna Mordyukova. Their son,
Vladimir Tikhonov, also became
an actor, however, he suffered from a drug dependency and died.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov met his second wife during the filming of
We'll Live Till Monday (1968).
In the course of his career Tikhonov worked with some of the best
Russian directors. He worked with director
Stanislav Rostotskiy in five films,
starting in Delo bylo v Penkove (1957). Their collaboration was
especially fruitful in Dozhivem do ponedelnika (1969) and
White Bim Black Ear (1977),
which received an Academy Award-nomination. Before that, Tikhonov
appeared in the leading role as Prince Bolkonsky in
War and Peace (1965), an eight-hour
epic film by actor-director
Sergey Bondarchuk. In 1969 the film
won the Academy Award as the best foreign-language film.
Tikhonov's most notable role on television was as Russian spy Stirlitz
(Col. Maxim Isayev) in
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973),
a popular TV series about a Russian intelligence agent operating in
Berlin during WWII. The dual identity of Tikhonov's character is well
played, and the film has won him millions of loyal fans. Tikhonov's
consistent popularity made his character, Stirlitz, a hero in hundreds
of jokes. After the role as Stirlitz, Tikhonov became typecast as a
Soviet military character, and played heroic KGB officers and generals
in several Soviet films during the 70s and 80s. In 2002 Vyacheslav
Tikhonov suffered a heart attack. However, he soon recovered and
returned to acting. In 2004 he played a role in a film produced by his
daughter Anna Tikhonova. His last film-work was in
Andersen. Zhizn bez lyubvi (2006)
by director Eldar Ryazanov.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR and the
State Prize of Russian Federation. He received numerous government
awards and decorations and was designated People's Actor of the USSR
(1974). Vyacheslav Tikhonov was residing in his country house in the
prestigious village of Nikolina Gora, a suburb of Moscow. He died of a
heart failure on the 4th of December, 2009, and was laid to rest in
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.- Composer
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Diana Ringo is a film director and composer.
She was born on 8 of March 1992. Diana grew up in Finland and has been interested in music from early childhood.
She is a classically educated pianist and has studied piano with famous pianists such as Janne Mertanen, prize winner of the Chopin competition, Risto Lauriala, prize winner of the Beethoven competition. She has attended master classes by the Hollywood composer Lalo Schifrin, directors Paul Verhoeven and David Lynch.
Her original music is featured in the 2018 film "Million Loves in Me" directed by Sampson Yuen (Hong Kong Golden Globes entry). Her music for "Million Loves in Me", won the award for best original score at LAFA (Los Angeles Film Awards) in 2020. In the same year she also composed the score to the short film "Hinge" by Lisa Mayo (supervisor Salvador Carrasco).
In 2020 she has posed for Playboy Spain, April issue.
In 2021 Diana Ringo directed the feature film "Quarantine" ("KARAntin") starring Anatoliy Beliy ("Metro", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Chagall - Malevich"). In the same year she also filmed "Power of the Incomprehensible" with Erik Sabri.
In 2022 Diana Ringo directed the feature film "1984" based on the novel of the same name by George Orwell. The film is scheduled to be released in 2023.
Diana lived in Vienna, Austria from 2009 until 2020. She is a Finnish citizen and as of 2020 resides in Turku, Finland.
Diana speaks English, Finnish, Russian and German.
She is the founder and director of the Prague Independent Film Festival. Diana Ringo is a journalist and editor of Indie Cinema Magazine.
Diana is also a visual artist and painter who works in neo-expressionist and pop-art styles.- Evgenia Brik was born on 3 September 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Hipsters (2008), Odessa (2019) and The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013). She was married to Valeriy Todorovskiy. She died on 10 February 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Natalya Bondarchuk was born on 10 May 1950 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress and director, known for Solaris (1972), Odna lyubov dushi moyey (2007) and Krasnoe i chernoe (1976). She is married to Nikolay Burlyaev. They have one child.- Vladimir Burlakov was born in 1987 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for In the Face of Crime (2010), Deutschland 83 (2015) and Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis (2011).
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Sergei Bodrov Jr. was born on December 27th, 1971 to producer and
director Sergei Bodrov. He made his film
debut in his father's
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
(Prisoner of the mountains) for which he won a Nika. From then on
Sergei's career began. In 1997 he played a lead role in
Brother (1997) which turned him into a star and
made him one of the most known and beloved Russian actors.
He followed up the role with Brat 2 (2000)
in 2000. He made his directorial debut in 2001 with
Sisters (2001). The movie was a hit with
audiences and critics alike.
In 2002 he was supposed to direct a movie, "Messenger", for which he
traveled to the Caucasus mountains. On September 20th 2002, an
avalanche due to a glacier slide came down from the mountains. Bodrov
and his production group are still reported missing, believed killed.
He is survived by his wife and two children, a four year old daughter
and a two-month old son.