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Capital: Kiev
Population: 42.418.235 (33th)
Continent: Europe
Capital: Kiev
Population: 42.418.235 (33th)
Continent: Europe
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Natasha Yarovenko was born on 23 July 1979 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Room in Rome (2010), Aftershock (2012) and Diary of a Nymphomaniac (2008).- Actress
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Viktoriya Dov was born on 1 May 1992 in Sevastopol, Ukraine. She is an actress and producer, known for Dave (2020), Hollywood Heist and Alice in Chains: Black Antenna (2019).- Actress
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Ana Layevska was born on 10 January 1982 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for The War Next-door (2021), La Muchacha Que Limpia (2021) and Yankee (2019). She has been married to Rodrigo Moreira since 13 April 2014.- Actress
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Ivanna Sakhno was born on 14 November 1997 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is an actress and producer, known for Ahsoka (2023), The Reunion (2022) and High Fidelity (2020).- Irena Tyshyna (birth name Iryna Viktorovna Tyshyna) was born in Crimea, Ukraine. From the age of 5 she studied music - piano, singing and later conducting. She left home to continue with her studies when she was only 14 years old. Despite her young age, Irena was offered a place at the State Higher College of Music in Nikolaev, Ukraine - an institution with excellent standards and high in demand. Each year they would only accept 6 pupils per class, so the competition was fierce.
Irena began taking interest in acting when she moved to Odessa, whilst studying conducting and singing at the State Academy of Music. It was in Odessa when Irena was first spotted by an agent from the local model agency and was offered a job as a model. After graduating the Academy of Music with distinction, one year earlier and with two majors - Conducting and Singing - Irena moved to London, UK to further her music and acting career.
Irena's first English language film debut was in 2005 in a film "Happy?" (director Paul Duane), where she played a girlfriend of a notorious Sebastian Horsley, a "self-styled Soho dandy, author and artist".
Since launching her very successful modelling career, Irena was photographed by Paul Wetherell, David Eustace, Ian Derry, Dirk Rees, Robert Wyatt and became the face of Holland & Holland gun makers, Cleave Jewellery, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson cosmetic companies.
Irena's versatile look landed her roles in films "Russian Doll" - starring as a ruthless mastermind Anna in this short drama (2010) and playing an English rose in Rosamunde Pilcher adaptation "Unknown Heart" (2013). - Actress
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Natalia Shmarenkova, wife of Kyiv Post publisher Mohammad Zahoor, is 2008 Mrs. World. She also has a singing and acting career and is excited about her upcoming role in a Hollywood movie.
For someone crowned Mrs. World 2008, Natalia Shmarenkova's demeanor is refreshingly devoid of elitism and celebrity arrogance. In Ukraine, she is more known as a pop singer under the stage name of Kamaliya. She hopes the world will know her soon as a movie actress.
Shmarenkova is the wife of new Kyiv Post owner and publisher, Mohammad Zahoor. Outside of business circles, he was the lesser-known of the pair, at least until he started spending some of his fortune to buy real estate and media companies.
Married in 2003, the couple has lofty ambitions, talent and the financial means to achieve them.
A professional musician, singer, model and rising actress, she did not get it all just by marrying the right man. Before meeting Zahoor, she worked on her own career and racked up awards at state festivals. Although never topping the charts or filling stadiums, she has an audience appreciative of her soprano and waist-deep blond hair.
Winning the Mrs. World beauty pageant for married women in 2008 was one of the highest points in her career. "I wanted to show women in Ukraine that being married does not mean it's the end of it all. We can always be beautiful," Kamaliya said. "Moreover, the contest is about family values, self-accomplishment and helping those less fortunate."
She was born to a military family in far-off Chita Oblast in Russia. When Kamaliya turned three, her father was deployed in Budapest, thus starting their lifelong wandering around the world. "We never really had a home," said Inna Shmarenkova, Kamaliya's mother. "So we had enough of this feeling of nostalgia and now want to be in one place."
Shmarenkova never detached herself from her pre-school daughter from the moment she walked her to the vocals studio for the first time. A professional singer herself, she remains Kamaliya's producer, agent and sidekick to this day.
Failing to strike powerful friendships in turbulent 1990s, they did not secure mainstream fame. After the fall of the Soviet Union, newly minted millionaires not only ran steel mills and grain factories. They also made inroads into show business as well.
Exuberant and spontaneous, Kamaliya does not seem to be put off by the fickle fortunes of her past. Beauty contests and film roles are good enough omens for long-term prospects on stage.
The couple could be based anywhere - Russia, England, the United States or even Pakistan - but they have chosen to remain in Ukraine.
Talkative and energetic, she appears eager for a big break in her career - on the big screen or on TV. She started filming a pilot TV program "Coffee with Kamaliya," in which she interviews celebrities about their climb to fame. "The idea is to show younger people that popularity does not come by accident but is rather a product of hard work." She also plans to shoot another program about charity.- Actress
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Olga Fedori was born on 17 March 1984 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wolfman (2010), Holby City (1999) and Of Their Own.- Actress
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Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis is a Ukrainian-American actress born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991. After attending one semester of college between gigs, she realized that she wanted to act for the rest of her life. She started acting when she was nine years old, when her father heard about an acting class on the radio and decided to enroll Mila in it. There, she met her future agent. Her first gig was when she played a character named Melinda in Make a Wish, Molly (1995). From there, her career skyrocketed into big-budget films.
Although she is mostly known for playing Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show (1998), she has shown the world that she can do so much more. Since 1999, she provided the voice of self-conscious daughter Meg Griffin on the animated sitcom Family Guy (1999). Her breakthrough film was Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), in which she played a free-spirited character named Rachel Jansen. She has since starred or co-starred in the films Max Payne (2008), The Book of Eli (2010), Black Swan (2010), Friends with Benefits (2011), Ted (2012) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).
Mila Kunis is married to actor Ashton Kutcher, with whom she has two children.- Actress
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Nadya Meiher was born on 10 April 1982 in Zbruchivka selo, Volochiskiy rayon, Khmelnitskyaya oblast, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Nichto ne sluchaetsya dvazhdy (2019), Crazy Wedding 3 (2021) and Don Zhuan iz Zhashkova (2024). She has been married to Mikhail Urzhumtsev since 2014. They have two children.- Olga Lezhneva-Levit is a Ukrainian actress. She studied drama at The Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts. In 2000 at the age of 16 she worked as a talk show host on the first Soviet Union private TV channel "Tonis". Then she Guest-Starred on Russian-Ukrainian TV-Films "Antisniper" (2007) and "Rules of Hijacking" (2008). Same year in the Film "Like Hell!" she portrayed Tanya the mistress of Sergei Nikonenko. She played Sasha in the Ukrainian comedy series "The Taxi 2" (2012) and a sexy conductor in the Comedy Film "1+1 at home" (2013). She became known after portraying Beatrice on the Ukrainian television sitcom "House arrest" (2010) for two seasons and for the role of Ludochka on the Russian comedy "What men talk about" (2010). She moved to the USA in 2014. Soon after she appeared in the show "The Affair" (2014) and "Return to Montauk" (2016).
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Katrina Moran was born on 30 October 1993 in Kiev, Ukraine. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wrong Side of Love (2019), Chateau De Elizabeth and Sex, Love and Espionage. She has been married to Kent Moran since 20 October 2018. They have one child.- Actress
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Vera Farmiga is an American actress who has received an Academy Award nomination for her role in Up in the Air (2009) and Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in Bates Motel (2013) and When They See Us (2019).
She was born Vera Ann Farmiga, the second of seven children, on August 6, 1973, in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, to Ukrainian parents. She did not speak English until the age of six, and was raised in the Ukrainian Catholic home of her mother, Luba (Spas), a schoolteacher, and her father, Michael Farmiga, a computer systems analyst. Her younger sister is actress Taissa Farmiga, who is 21 years her junior. Young Vera was a shy, nearsighted girl, who played piano and folk danced with a Ukrainian touring company in her teens.
In 1991, she graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School. Farmiga initially dreamed of becoming an optometrist, but she later changed her mind and studied acting at Syracuse University's School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1995. The following year, she began her professional acting career, making her Broadway debut as an understudy in the play "Taking Sides". Her stage credits included performances in "The Tempest", "Good", "The Seagull", and in a well-reviewed off-Broadway production of "Second-Hand Smoke" (1997). That same year, she made her television debut as the female lead, opposite a then-unknown Heath Ledger, in Fox's adventure series Roar (1997).
In 1998, Farmiga made her big screen debut in the drama Return to Paradise (1998), then played the daughters of Christopher Walken in The Opportunists (1999) and Richard Gere in Autumn in New York (2000). She starred as a working-class mother struggling to keep her life and marriage together while hiding her drug addiction in Down to the Bone (2004), for which she was awarded Best Actress from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Farmiga's acting talent shone in a range of characters, from her role as a senator's daughter in The Manchurian Candidate (2004), the wife of a mobster in Running Scared (2006), a humorous prostitute in Breaking and Entering (2006), and a police psychiatrist in The Departed (2006).
In 2010, Farmiga received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Up in the Air (2009). In 2011, she made her directorial debut with the drama Higher Ground (2011), in which she also appeared in the leading role. Although the film had a limited release, Farmiga's direction and performance received attention at several festivals. In 2013, she began starring in the drama thriller series Bates Motel (2013), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in the first season. In 2019, she received a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination, this time in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category, for her role in the drama miniseries When They See Us (2019).
Farmiga was formerly married to actor Sebastian Roché, whom she met during production of Roar (1997). The two eloped to the Bahamas after the series ended in 1997. They separated and subsequently divorced in 2004. On September 13, 2008, she married musician Renn Hawkey, with whom she has two children, son Fynn McDonnell (b. 2009) and daughter Gytta Lubov Hawkey (b. 2010). Farmiga lives with her family in Hudson Valley, New York. Her other activities, outside her acting profession, include reading, playing piano, boxing, jujitsu, and spending time with her pet angora goats.- Actress
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Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-American actress, supermodel, fashion designer, singer and public figure, who was on the cover of more than a hundred magazines, and starred in such films as The Fifth Element (1997), Ultraviolet (2006), and the Resident Evil (2002) franchise.
Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich was born on December 17, 1975 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now in Ukraine). Her Serbian father, Bogdan Jovovich, was a medical doctor in Kyiv. There, he met her mother, Galina Jovovich (née Loginova), a Russian actress. At the age of 5, in 1981, Milla emigrated with her parents from the Soviet Union, moving first to London, UK, then to Sacramento, California, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. There her parents worked as house cleaners for the household of director Brian De Palma. Her parents separated, and eventually divorced, because her father was arrested and spent several years in prison.
Young Milla Jovovich was brought up by her single mother in Los Angeles. In addition to her native Ukrainian, she also speaks Russian and English. However, in spite of her cosmopolitan background, Milla was ostracized by some of her classmates, as a kid who emigrated from the Soviet Union amidst the paranoia of the Cold War. Many emotional scars had affected her behavior, but she eventually emerged as a resilient, multi-talented, albeit rebellious and risk-taking girl. She was coached by her actress mother since her childhood, first at home, then studied music, ballet, and acting in Los Angeles.
She shot to international fame after she was spotted by the photographer Richard Avedon at the age of 11, and was featured in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, and on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine 'Lei' which was her first cover shoot. She made her first professional model contract at the age of 12, and soon made it to the cover of 'The Face', 'Vogue', 'Cosmopolitan' and many other magazines. In 1994, she appeared on the cover of 'High Times' in the UK, at the age of 18. The total number of her magazine covers worldwide was over one hundred by 2004, and keeps counting. In 2004, she made $10.4 million, becoming the highest paid supermodel in the world.
Milla appeared in ad campaigns for Chanel, Versace, Emporio Armani, Donna Karen, DKNY, Celine, P&K, H&H, and continues her role as the worldwide spokesperson and model for L'Oreal. Thanks to their continued success with Milla, Giorgio Armani chose her to be the face of his fragrance, Night. In addition to Armani's fragrance, Milla was the face for Calvin Klein's Obsession and Christian Dior's Poison for over 10 years and has most recently become the new face for Donna Karan's Cashmere Mist fragrance, which debuts in August 2009. Milla continues to shoot with the fashion industry's most sought after photographers, including Peter Lindbergh, Mario Sorrenti, Craig McDean and Inez & Vinoodh.
Milla made her acting debut in the Disney Channel movie The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988) and she made guest appearances on television series including Married... with Children (1987) (in 1989 as a French exchange student), Paradise (1988) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990). In 1988, at age 12, she made her film debut credited as Milla in a supporting role in Two Moon Junction (1988) by writer/director Zalman King. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she played several supporting roles as a teenage actress in film and on television, then starred in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). In 1997, she co-starred opposite Bruce Willis in the sci-fi blockbuster The Fifth Element (1997), then she starred as the title character of The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999).
In the early 2000s, Milla had a few years of uncertainty in her acting career due to the uneven quality of her films, as well as some hectic events in her private life. She appeared with Mel Gibson in Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. She went on to co-star with Wes Bentley and Sarah Polley in The Claim (2000) and in Ben Stiller's spoof of the world of models and high-fashion, Zoolander (2001).
Milla achieved box office success in the U.S. and around the world with the action-packed thriller, Resident Evil (2002), based on the wildly popular video game, Resident Evil. It was written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Milla reprised her role as the zombie slaying heroine, Alice, in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), and again in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) A seventh resident Evil movie is in pre-production.
She received glowing reviews opposite Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Illeana Douglas in Dummy (2002) which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. In the spring of 2006, Milla returned to the big screen as action heroine, Violet, in the futuristic film Ultraviolet (2006) directed by Kurt Wimmer.
Focusing on her personal sense of style, her love of fashion led Milla and her friend and business partner, Carmen Hawk, to launch their Jovovich-Hawk clothing line, which achieved instant acclaim in the domestic and international fashion world. The fresh, unique line garnered the attention of red carpet watchers and fashion magazines, including American Vogue, who featured Jovovich-Hawk on their coveted list of "10 Things to Watch Out for in 2005." A student of voice and guitar since she was very young, Milla began writing songs for her first record at the age of 15.
Her first album, "The Divine Comedy", was released by EMI Records in 1994. Informed by her experiences as a child growing up as a Russian emigrant in the Red-bashing Reagan era, the introspective European-folkish debut drew favorable reviews for Milla's songwriting and performing. She continues to write music, and has had songs featured on several film soundtracks. She has been writing music and lyrics to her song-demos, playing her guitar and sampling other sounds from her computer, and allowing free download and remix of her songs from her website.
Charitable work also plays a major part in Milla's life. She has served as Master of Ceremonies and co-chaired with Elizabeth Taylor for the amfAR and Cinema Against AIDS event at the Venice Film Festival, and has been heavily involved with The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, as well as The Wildlands Project.
For many years Milla Jovovich has been maintaining a healthier lifestyle, practicing yoga and meditation, trying to avoid junk food, and cooking for herself. Since she was a little girl, Milla has been writing a private diary, a habit she learned from her mother. She has been keeping a record of many good and bad facts of her life, her travels, her relationships, and all important ideas and events in her career, planning eventually to publish an autobiography. After dissolution of her two previous marriages, Milla Jovovich became engaged to film director Paul W.S. Anderson; their daughter, Ever Anderson, was born on November 3, 2007. They got married on August 22, 2009. Their second daughter, Dashiel Edan, was born on April 1, 2015.- Actress
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Olga Kurylenko is a Ukrainian-French actress and model, went from sharing a cramped flat with her aunt, uncle, grandparents and cousin to starring as a Bond girl opposite Daniel Craig.
She was born Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko on November 14, 1979, in Berdyansk, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her mother, Marina Alyabysheva, divorced her father, Konstantin Kurylenko, soon after her birth. After the divorce her mother struggled to survive as an art teacher. Young Olga was brought up by her mother and her grandmother, Raisa. During her youth Olga had the humbling experience of living in poverty; she had no choice but to wear rags and had to darn the holes on her sweater. During her years in Ukraine she studied art and languages and spent seven years studying piano at a local school of music in Berdyansk. She also went to a ballet studio until 13.
At age 13 Olga and her mother made a trip to Moscow. There she was spotted by an agent, who approached her at a subway station and offered her a job as a model. Initially Olga's mother was suspicious, but she checked the agent's credentials and eventually allowed Olga to accept training as a model in Moscow, which turned out to be a good career choice.
By age 16 she was ready for the next step. She moved to Paris, learned French in six months and was signed by the Madison agency. At age 18 she appeared on the cover of Glamour, and in short order graced the covers of Elle, Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, and Vogue. She also became the face of Lejaby lingerie, Bebe clothing, Clarins and Helena Rubinstein cosmetic companies.
In 1999 Olga married French photographer Cedric Van Mol, but divorced him 3-1/2 years later. One day Olga presented herself to an acting agency. Eventually she swapped the catwalk for the movie screen, and her acting career took off. In 2005 she made her film debut as "Iris", a sensual beauty, in The Ring Finger (2005), by director Diane Bertrand.
Olga's cinematic roles have been notably steamy, and her natural beauty and explicit nudity attracted the attention of the male audiences. She appeared opposite Elijah Wood in Paris, I Love You (2006) and as "Sofia" in The Snake (2006), then co-starred as Russian beauty "Nika Boronina" opposite Timothy Olyphant in Hitman (2007). She also appeared as "Mina Harud" in the indie surveillance-thriller Tyranny (2008). On Christmas Eve 2007, Olga was offered to play what will become her biggest hit: co-starring as "Camille", the Bond girl, opposite Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace (2008), a sequel to Casino Royale (2006).
With the international success as Bond Girl, Olga also made appearances on various TV productions in Russia and Ukraine. In 2012, Olga Kurylenko was cast as Julia, supporting role in the Sci-Fi adventure Oblivion (2013) opposite Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman.- Justine Pasek was born on 29 August 1979 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She has been married to Dan Joelson since 8 August 2009.
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Vera Graziadei was born in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. Vera is a director and actor, known for Peep Show (2003), The Book of Vision (2020) and The Silent Canary (2022). Vera has been married to Count Robin Monotti Graziadei since May 2008. They have two children.- Actress
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Karina Smirnoff was born on 2 January 1978 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Dark Feathers (2024), Shall We Dance? (2004) and Tango Shalom (2021).- Actress
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Natasha Blasick was born in the city of Odessa, Ukraine on the Black Sea. Her first languages are Russian and Ukrainian. She grew up in a Soviet-style apartment that housed two families. She made her debut as a lead actress in the film Death of Evil (2009). She is the older daughter of Sergei and Ludmilla and has a younger sister, Marina. Natasha is the first member of her family to pursue an acting career.
Life in the USSR saw Natasha wearing homemade clothes and attending Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union camp. Interested in studying English from the age of six, Natasha waited many winter hours for the most affordable public transportation to ferry her to and from her language classes. When she was 14, she and her father Sergei were visited by a UFO. Natasha studied dance, acted in many plays, and competed in several beauty contestants. Eventually earning a Master's degree in marketing, Natasha bade farewell to family and Odessa and set off on a voyage of love to marry her American husband Martin Blasick.
Natasha immediately embraced both Los Angeles and the craft of acting where she studied technique with several coaches, melding the training into her own acting style. Her leading role in Notes from the New World (2011), based on Dostoevsky's Notes From The Underground screened in festivals across Europe. In The Black Russian (2013) Natasha traveled to India to shoot the title role of the multi-layered Francesca, a Russian ex-patriot caught up in a deadly game of love. Mockbuster Paranoid Activity 2 (2011) starred Natasha in a battle against an Alaskan poltergeist.
She was the swimsuit winner in the Mrs. World contest and appeared as Sasha the secret agent on Days of Our Lives (1965). She also appeared in Meet the Spartans (2008) and (as herself) in Battle of the Bods (2008). She had the chance show her comedic talents doings sketches for a season of Spike TV's MDN (2004) and on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003).
Natasha co-produced Death of Evil (2009) and Vampiro (2009). In 2012 Natasha released Live In Your World, an EP of her own brand of pop-electronica music.- Larisa Bakurova was born on 21 February 1985 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for It Started with a Kiss: They Kiss Again (2007), The Crossing Hero (2015) and Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011).
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In 1976, Alla Korot emigrated to the USA with her parents, Alex and Elena Korot. Korot spent six years touring professionally with Ballet Celeste International, and was crowned California Miss T.E.E.N. at 17. She was the model for Esmerelda in Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", and she has had many guest spots on television shows.- Actress
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Oksana Lada was born in Ivano Frankivsk, the Western region of Ukraine, where she studied to be an economist before emigrating to the U.S. when she was 20. A rare beauty, with stunning, strongly Slavic features, Lada did some modeling after arriving in the U.S. Eventually she segued into acting, having studied both in Ukraine and in the US. Lada first became familiar to national audiences as Irina, Tony Soprano's needy mistress, on the HBO series The Sopranos (1999). Lada (sometimes billed as Oksana Babiy) has also appeared in the New York theater as well, to positive reviews.
Lada is fluent in English, Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. Despite her emigration, she retains strong emotional ties to Ukraine, the land of her birth. She currently lives in Manhattan.- Victoria has portrayed over 37 characters in 11 films and over 800 episodes of TV drama.
Victoria was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the Netherlands at age 12. She learned Dutch from scratch and built a TV career speaking Dutch like a native.
After years of working in Amsterdam she decided to bring a new dimension to her career. She landed her first Russian-speaking role in Moscow in 2009. Drawing on her Eastern European background she starred in the short film "American Dreams," playing Marina, the Russian wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. The film was awarded Best Short Film at the Hollywood Festival.
In 2016 Victoria learned Serbian to play a part in the Dutch Oscar submission The Paradise Suite.
Ironically, Victoria gets cast for strong iron ladies, like doctors and lawyers in the Netherlands, while in Russia she often gets the comic, girl-next-door types. On stage she has played for the National Theatre; in 2020 she appeared in the show "Mijn Man Begript Me Niet" over 50 times.
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Natalie Burn is an accomplished actress of Ukrainian heritage, now holding American citizenship. She boasts a distinguished career, marked by her commitment to excellence in the performing arts. Natalie is proud to be a lifetime member of The Actors Studio and an active member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
In her latest project, "Til Death Do Us Part," which was released in AMC theaters nationwide, Natalie received critical acclaim for her portrayal as a runaway bride in danger. Several reviewers and articles like Hollywood Reporter, CBS News and LA Times praised Burn's ability to do her own stunts as well as her dramatic performance alongside esteemed actors Cam Gigandet and Jason Patric. Her recent credits encompass a range of notable productions, including Warner Brothers' DC Comic film "Black Adam," starring Dwayne Johnson, and "The Enforcer," opposite Antonio Banderas and Kate Bosworth. She shone in "The Expendables 3" alongside Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Mel Gibson. Her upcoming film, "The Movers," features Academy Nominee Terence Howard and Jena Malone.
Natalie's television work includes co-starring roles in the Amazon Prime Emmy Award-winning Limited Drama Series "Studio City," which earned her an Indie Series Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and the Lifetime Original movie "Vanished: Search for My Sister.
Also recognized for her exceptional skills in martial arts, Natalie has starred in several action movies across industry legends like Bruce Willis and Jason Statham. Recently, she commanded the screen as the lead in the action-packed thriller "Acceleration," alongside Dolph Lundgren and Sean Patrick Flanery. Later this year she can be seen starring in the upcoming medieval epic "The Last Redemption."
In addition to her acting prowess, Natalie is a classically trained ballet dancer, having graduated from The Royal Ballet School in London and Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Fluent in four languages, she brings a global perspective to her artistic endeavors.
As a producer, Natalie owns two production companies, 7Heaven Productions and Born To Burn Films, with a track record of producing a dozen successful films to date and several more in pre-production.
Driven by a desire to inspire and empower women in the entertainment industry worldwide, Natalie Burn sets a high standard as a role model for artistic excellence and professionalism.- Born in the Ukraine but raised in Toronto, Canada, Nikki Benz was a top figure and calendar model before becoming an exotic dancer. She had always had an interest in the adult-film industry, and one day just decided to give it a try. She made her first adult film in 2002, liked it, and has stayed in the business ever since.
- With a seductive, silk-toned voice, alluring eyes and pleasingly full lips, brunette Nika Noire has made an impressive showing in her promising adult-film career. This piercing, blue-eyed beauty from the Ukraine was born on December 8, 1984. She began her adult-film career at age 23 in 2007, and the work she has done only attests that her longevity in the business is doubtlessly guaranteed. Since her entry into the adult-film business Nika has appeared in over 120 films and worked for numerous companies. The tall (5'10") beauty comes across as quite warm-natured and inviting on camera, often appearing submissive and eager to please her partner or partners. A versatile performer, she can play everything from sexually inquisitive teenagers to a naughty sharing an unsuspecting teenage girl with her "husband", as shown in 2008's "Couples Seduce Teens #9".
Nika has proved to be a favorite with both fans and those in the adult-film community itself. Her career continues to prosper and flourish with each year she appears in front of cameras, giving 100% of herself to her fans in consistently satisfying performances. - Ekaterina Kuznetsova was born on 12 July 1987 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Bystree, chem kroliki (2014), Chastnoe pionerskoe 2 (2015) and Samka bogomola (2021).
- 1994 Olympic GOLD Medalist & 1993 World Champion, Ladies Figure Skating.
When Oksana Baiul was three years old, she received her first pair of ice skates from her Grandfather. By just seven years old, she already won her first competition. The Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation immediately took notice of her unique, natural balletic artistry on the ice.
In 1994, at barely 16 years old, the world watched literally (Oksana Baiul holds the record for most watched Olympic performance in history) as Oksana captivated our hearts & won the Olympic Gold Medal, proving that she is the Best in the World! Contrary to the false tales spun by a former coach and others to the media claiming to have financially supported Oksana prior to 1994, in fact Oksana was by 1993 already unknowingly a very wealthy teenager with her own apartment, having won GOLD at the 1993 World Championship, headlined the ISU European Tour and being contracted by Tom Collins to co-headline his 1993 Tour of World Figure Skating Champions sold out 43 US cities tour. In 1994, Oksana was brought to the United States, was signed to William Morris Talent Agency, turned professional, toured and performed nonstop for 8 years and Barbara Walter's named her "One of the 10 Most Fascinating Personalities of 1994".
Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, she was an only child of parents Sergei and Marina Baiul who divorced when she was two. Her mother and her grandparents raised Oksana. When Oksana was 10, her grandparents died. Tragically, three years later at 13, her mother died of ovarian cancer.
Prior to and since her victory in Lillehammer, Oksana headlined figure skating tours non-stop from 1993 to 2003 in figure skating tours and competitions in the United States, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, North Korea, South Korea, China, Ukraine, Russia and many more including AEG's Champions on Ice and Smucker's Stars On Ice.
Oksana's life story was depicted in the Hallmark & CBS produced movie, "A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story". Oksana has published two NYT Best Selling books, Secrets of Skating/Oksana Baiul; Oksana, My Own Story. Oksana has been profiled in several televised bio specials including Lifetime and A&E's Networks. In 1996, Oksana also launched "OKSANA: Jewels On Ice" and "Oksana: Ice Crystals" her jewelry collections, which sold-out on QVC and in turn was made available with major US luxury department stores. Oksana Baiul has headlined more than 900 live performances touring the globe, a part of over 150 headlining television and movie performances (Nutcracker on Ice, Wizard of Oz on Ice, CBS Sports Olympic Winterfest, Goodwill Games) and more than 300 television appearances.
In 2002, Oksana also launched her clothing line, the Oksana Baiul Collection, the most successful independently owned Figure Skating Apparel line, created and designed by Oksana herself which is re-launching and expanding in 2013. In 2003, Oksana returned to her hometown of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine and her heartfelt story was featured on ABC's 20/20 and featured in People Magazine. During 2005 to 2009 Oksana also headlined a Moscow Red Square TV special, starred in an off Broadway theatrical show "Cold As Ice" earning her performance critical acclaim, while dedicating the majority of her time to philanthropic endeavors benefiting children. Oksana, the only figure skater to become a globally known household name and cross over to be considered a true entertainer, has graced the covers of over 50 media publications globally and endorsed products such as ICON Fitness' HealthRider and Lifeway's KEFIR. During the last seven years Oksana has also taken on a few acting roles making appearances on television series' (Arli$$, Strong Medicine), supporting roles in movies (Cutting Edge II), and stared as lead judge on ABC's prime-time reality show "Master of Champions".
Oksana Baiul, nicknamed the "Queen of the Ice" and the "Swan of Odessa", who partnered with Entertainment Producer, Investor and Philanthropist Carlo J. Farina, can be found on the ice training in Philadelphia preparing for her upcoming return to performing in 2013, writing her highly-anticipated autobiography, developing her first headlining global tour commencing in 2014 and expanding her career as a co-Producer of the tour in addition to two Television specials, while also designing and re-launching the OKSANA BAIUL Collection encompassing figure skating apparel, ready to wear, accessories and her jewelry line. - Actress
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Rene Lovit was born in Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Vinnytsia, Ukraine]. She is an actress and producer, known for Sisters the Series (2016), Life on Mars (2008) and Desperate Housewives (2004).- Marisha Shine was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is known for Entourage (2015), Teeth and Blood (2015) and Moon Crash (2022).
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Lyudmila Gurchenko was a popular actress in the Soviet Union during the 1950s - 1980s, she was best known for Carnival Night (1956), Five Evenings (1979) and Siberiade (1979).
She was born Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko on 12 November 1935, in Kharkov, Ukrainian Soviet Republic of the USSR. She studied acting at the VGIK (Soviet State Institute for CInema), graduating from the class of Sergey Gerasimov in 1956. That same year she shot to fame in the Soviet Union, aftr delivering a stellar performance as singer Lenochka Krylova in Carnival Night (1956), by director Eldar Ryazanov.
Gurchenko's film partners were such Russian stars, as Oleg Borisov, Sergei Shakurov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Basilashvili, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Igor Ilyinsky, Yuriy Nikulin, Armen Jigarhanian, Oleg Tabakov, Stanislav Lubshin, Andrey Mironov and Aleksandr Mikhaylov among others.
Lyudmila Gurchenko was married five times and had one daughter with her first husband, Boris Andronikashvili. She died of a pulmonary failure on 30 March 2011, at age 75, and was laid to rest in Moscow, Russia.- Actress
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Galyna is an actress of music-drama theater and cinema. She graduated from Kyiv State University of Theater, Film and Television (In that time: Kiev State Institute of the Theatrical and Cinema Art) in July 1992. The study was by system of Konstantin Stanislavski (deep feeling school). Galyna has a Diploma of above mentioned University, from the master-class Leonid Olijnyk and Ada Rogovtseva. Galyna Kyyashko graduated together with Vitaliy Linetskiy. After University she had 6 years experience to work on the best channels of Ukraine as TV-presenter (news in Ukrainian and Russian languages),journalist and reporter, director of program for children, radio broadcaster. In the same time Galyna has been experienced in theatrical performance. She worked once together with Ruslana Pisanka for TV-program. From that time when Galyna Kyyashko came to Holland to follow the man she loves, she had work as an actress-model for photo and TV-advertisement, TV-programs, theater, films, movies. Last played theater performance's: "Misverstand" ("Misunderstanding", Theaterstichting Ooit NL, 2012 - 2015), "Before I Sleep" (Holland Festival NL, Dreamthinkspeak UK 2011), "Anders Samen" ("Different Together", Theaterstichting Ooit NL 2007 - 2013),"Theatertour" (Trias\Theaterfestival Leidschendam-Voorburg 2011), "In De Buurt" ("In The Region", Theaterstichting Ooit NL 2008).- Actress
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Ina Benita was born on 1 February 1912 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Ludzie Wisly (1938), Maryjka (1933) and Puszcza (1932). She was married to Lloyd Fraser Scudder, Hans Georg Pasch, Stanislaw Lipinski and Jerzy Dal-Atan. She died on 9 September 1984 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.- Alina Levshin was born on 10 September 1984 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Combat Girls (2011), In the Face of Crime (2010) and Paradise (2023).
- Galina Jovovich is a Russian-American actress and the mother of Milla Jovovich.
She was born Galina Loginova in 1950 in Russia, Tuapse, Soviet Union. Her father was a Red Army officer; her mother was a homemaker. Her parents divorced and she was raised by a single mother. She studied acting in Dnepropetrovsk, then moved to Moscow and attended the prestigious acting school at VGIK (Soviet State Institute of Cinematography). In 1971, while still a student, she made her film debut in the popular TV series 'Teni ischezayut v polden'. In 1972, she graduated from VGIK as an actress, from the master-class of V. Belokurov. She worked on stage as well as in film and on television in the Soviet Union. Her most notable works were such roles as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (1973), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing', and as Molly in criminal drama Milliony Ferfaksa (1981).
In 1973, she left Moscow and returned to Ukraine on assignment as a staff actress with Dovzhenko Film studio in Kiev. In a popular Ukrainian restaurant there, 'Libed,' she met Serbian medical doctor Bogdan Jovovich, and they fell in love. At that time she was interrogated by KGB officers who threatened to destroy her career and demanded that she quit her romance with a foreigner. However, Galina Loginova and Bogdan Jovovich got married, and on 17 December 1975, in Kiev, their daughter Milla Jovovich was born.
In 1980, Galina Loginova-Jovovich and her family emigrated from the Soviet Union. The Soviet authorities immediately banned all Galina Loginova- Jovovich films so she could not have any income from her works made in the Soviet Union. For a few years she lived with her family in London, England, then they moved to Sacramento, California, United States and finally settled in Los Angeles. There Galina invested all her talent and energy in raising her daughter Milla. During the 1980s she also worked as a housekeeper in the home of Hollywood director Brian De Palma. Eventually she became her daughter's agent and was instrumental in building her successful career. She also played in several Russian and American films during the 2000s. - Actress
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Born in Russian Empire to a Ukrainian father and a Swedish mother, Anna Sten studied at the Russian Film Academy and joined the Moscow Art Theater. Strikingly beautiful, she went on to appear in a number of Russian silent films, but it was in the German film Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931) that Anna gained notice. Samuel Goldwyn saw a picture of Anna in the paper and rushed to view the film. After the first reel he sent word to sign her, hoping to develop her into a star of the magnitude of Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich. His agent signed Anna to a contract but forgot to mention the fact that she didn't speak a word of English, which made her appearance in sound pictures questionable. She spent a year studying English every day and working out makeup and acting. Goldwyn publicity called her "The Passionate Peasant" and sold her image to papers all over America. However, her first American picture, Nana (1934), even though almost completely rewritten and re-shot from the original, didn't bring audiences into the theaters. While Anna was looked great, the script and picture were average. Her second film, We Live Again (1934), marginally better suited to her style, also died within weeks at the box office. After her third film for Goldwyn, The Wedding Night (1935), also flopped, she and Goldwyn parted company after it became known around Hollywood as "Goldwyn's Last Sten." Anna made a few more movies, but by the end of the decade she was forgotten.- Actress
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Raisa Nedashkovskaya was born on 17 February 1943 in Malin, Zhitomir Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Malyn, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]. She is an actress and writer, known for The Commissar (1967), Cara ligava (1964) and Lisova pisnya (1961).- Actress
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Olga Sumskaya is a Soviet and Ukrainian actress and TV presenter. Honored Artist and People's Artist of Ukraine. Olga Sumskaya was born in Lvov, Soviet Union in a family of actors of the Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko. In 1987 she graduated from KGITI named after Ivan Karpenko-Karyy. And the following year she became an actress of the National Academic Theater of Russian Drama named after Lesya Ukrainka.
The role of Roksolana in the series Roxolana (1997) and two sequels brought great popularity to Olga Sumskaya.- Natalya Sumska was born on 22 April 1956 in Katyuzhanka, Kievskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Vyshgorodskyy rayon, Kyyivska oblast, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Black Raven (2019), Radi semeynogo ochaga (1992) and Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980).
- Ekaterina Kuznetsova was born on 12 July 1987 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Bystree, chem kroliki (2014), Chastnoe pionerskoe 2 (2015) and Samka bogomola (2021).
- Ada Rogovtseva was born on 6 July 1937 in Glukhov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Salyut, Mariya! (1971), Taras Bulba (2009) and Zimniy roman (2004). She was previously married to Konstantin Stepankov.
- Anna Safroncik was born on 4 January 1981 in Kiev, Ukraine. She is an actress, known for Nine (2009), Il traduttore (2016) and Don Matteo (2000).
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Taisiya Povaliy was born on 10 December 1965 in Shamrayevka, Skvira Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Zolushka (2002), Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (2001) and Kruiz, ili Razvodnoe puteshestvie (1991). She has been married to Igor Likhuna since 1993. She was previously married to Vladimir Povaly.- Actress
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Juliya Chernetsky was born on 10 July 1982 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Uranium (2003), Ultimate Fuse Gig: The VJ Search (2005) and Metal Asylum (2005).- Actress
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Vera Kiperman (her maiden name is Galushka; better known under the pseudonym Vera Brezhneva, was born in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Ukrainian pop singer, actress, TV presenter, former member of the VIA Gra pop group (2003-2007). UN Goodwill Ambassador for HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS Program).