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Yelena Velikanova
Yelena Sergeyevna Velikanova (; born October 5, 1984, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian theatre, film and voice actress. Career In 2001, Yelena entered the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School at the State Academic Maly Theater of Russia in Moscow (artistic director of the course Vitaly Ivanov; teacher Vladimir Beilis), which she graduated in 2005. Since 2008 she has been involved in the dubbing of the animated franchise Disney Fairies, being the voice of the fairy Vidia (in the original Pamela Adlon's voice). In February 2008, she became the Girl of the Month for the Russian version of MAXIM Magazine. Selected filmography * Popsa (2005) as Slavka * Vanechka (2007) as Nadya * The Best Movie (2008) as Nastya Korinovaya * Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) as Katya * 257 Reasons to Live (2020) as Olya Personal life Yelena bears the surname of her stepfather, whose great-aunt is the famous Soviet pop singer Gelena Velikanova Gelena Martselievna Velikanova (, 27 F ...
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257 Reasons To Live
''257 Reasons to Live'' () is a Russian R-rated comedy-drama television series. The show is produced by Yellow, Black and White, Super Production and START Studio. Maxim Sveshnikov serves as director and Anna Dragunkina is an executive producer for the show. The series stars Polina Maximova as Evgeniya Korotkova, a young woman who has defeated her cancer. Egor Koreshkov, Yulia Topolnitskaya, Maxim Lagashkin, Marusya Fomina and Roman Mayakin also star in the show. The series received a presentation pilot commitment at START in summer 2019. ''257 Reasons to Live'' was ordered to series in July 2019. The series is primarily filmed in Moscow. "SUPER" renewed the series through its second season, principal photography began in July 2020 and wrapped in September. The series debuted on START on March 26, 2020, the show had its TV premiere on TNT on June 8, 2020. The second season of the series premiered on START on November 4, 2020. Premise Season 1 Thirty-year-old Zhenya recov ...
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Russian Stage Actresses
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Actresses From Moscow
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval wor ...
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1984 Births
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Gelena Velikanova
Gelena Martselievna Velikanova (, 27 February 1923 – 10 November 1998) was a Soviet traditional pop performer, who popular in the 1950s and 1960s and best remembered for her 1959 hit "Landyshi" (Lily of the Valley). She was honoured with the People's Artist of Russia title in 1992. Velikanova then lost her voice due to incompetent medical treatment and had to stop performing. She died in 1998, two hours before her farewell concert in Moscow. Biography Gelena Velikanova was born in Moscow; both her parents came from Poland, her father Marceli Welikanis, was a half- Lithuanian. She graduated from the secondary school in 1941 but had to abandon her plans of joining the musical college, due to the outbreak of World War II broke and her family were subsequently evacuated to Tomsk. In 1944 Gelena returned to Moscow, enrolled into the Glazunov Musical college. After the graduation, she continued her education in the Estrada department of the Moscow Art Theater School Studio. In 1948, ...
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Shadow Recruit
''Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'' is a 2014 American action thriller film based on the character Jack Ryan created by author Tom Clancy. It is the fifth film in the ''Jack Ryan'' series and the second reboot thereof. Unlike its predecessors, it is not an adaptation of a particular Clancy novel, but rather an original story. Chris Pine stars in the title role, becoming the fourth actor to play Ryan, following Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. The film is directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars alongside Kevin Costner, and Keira Knightley. The original screenplay was written by Adam Cozad and David Koepp. The film was produced by Mace Neufeld, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, David Barron and Mark Vahradian, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Paul Schwake and Tommy Harper as executive producers. The film score was composed by Patrick Doyle. The film was released in the United States on January 17, 2014. It grossed over $130 million and was met with mixed critical reviews. It ...
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Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in Moscow metropolitan area, its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's List of largest cities, largest cities, being the List of European cities by population within city limits, most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest List of urban areas in Europe, urban and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lan ...
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The Best Movie
''The Best Movie'' (, ''Samy luchshiy film'') is a 2008 Russian comedy film from TNT and Comedy Club Russia, spoofing such famous Russian films as '' Night Watch'' and '' Day Watch'', '' The 9th Company'', ''Heat'' and TV series: '' My Fair Nanny'', ''Dalnoboyshchiki'' and '' Brigada''. The movie includes numerous cameos by Russian celebrities, some of them involving a humorous touch on their public image. For instance, socialite Kseniya Sobchak appears as a luxury prostitute, and gay icon Boris Moiseev plays a rough-and-tumble policeman, his only line being: "You gonna sign it all, you faggot!" Plot During his wedding to his fiancée Nastya, Vadik Volnov smokes a joint, offered by his friend "Half-Kilo." This leads him to experience clinical death, transporting him to the afterlife, where he meets God’s secretary (whom he initially mistakes for God) and they begin discussing Vadik's life. Vadik recalls memories from his childhood, such as drinking with his father, Grigory, d ...
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