BIOGRAPHY

I was born in April 1971 in Smolensk. Apart from secondary school I graduated from an Art school, studied ballet and modern dancing. In 1990 I moved to Moscow and there, in 1995, finished the Moscow Art Theatre School, where I was taught by the prof. A.B. Pokrovskaya and teachers R.E. Kozak and D.V. Brusnikin.

Since 1995 I was an actress in Moscow Art Theatre named by Chechov. I played leading roles in many plays, most interesting of which are G. Borodina in Mrojak's "Love in the Crimea", dir. R. Kozak (The Best Actress Prize at the festival "Theatrical debuts of Moscow"); Katerina in "Storm" by Ostrovski, dir. D.Brusnikin; She in "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow" by Williams, dir. Slusarenko; Elena in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", dir. N. Sheiko.

In 1997, I debuted in the movies playing in a picture directed by V. Todorovsky "Land of the Deaf". For my part of Yaya I got several prizes: "Nika", "Golden Ram" in Switzerland, "Stars of Tomorrow" in 1998.

In 2000, I filmed in a BBC movie by Paul Pawliakowski "The Last Resort" (winner of the Independent Cinema Festival in Spain and Greece in 2001).

I have finished work in a 20-part television series "Female Romance" (dir. Sergey Sniejkin) and at the moment I'm filming in the picture "Marfa" (dir. Louis Franck).