Childhood and youth
Anna Valerievna Churina was born on July 23, 1978 in the closed city of Lesnoy (Sverdlovsk region), in the family of engineers Valery and Marina Churina.
Like most local residents, her parents worked for the nuclear industry. Later, Anna had younger sisters Alena and Dasha, so she, as the eldest, had to combine her studies with the duties of a nanny.
Anna Churina as a child with her family
Anna's parents still live in Lesnoy. And the actress herself comes to her small homeland with pleasure. She considers the Ural Mountains a place of power and rests her soul here.
In her childhood, Anna was fond of folk dancing, and in middle school, having become disillusioned with the dance section, she began attending a theater club.
Anna Churina in childhood
Although today Churina often plays fatal beauties, as a child she was an ugly duckling. After graduating from school, Anna left her hometown for Nizhny Novgorod in order, at the insistence of her parents, to study foreign languages. At the same time, the girl took her first steps in the modeling field; fortunately, her tall stature was conducive to a career.
Anna Churina in her school years
Anya joined a friend who auditioned for the Elite Model Look agency. The recruiter noticed the long-legged student. Churina received an offer to work as a model in Paris. She decided that this was a good practice for a foreign language student, and, in addition, an excellent opportunity to see the world, because her poor parents could not afford to take their daughter abroad.
Anna Churina was a model
This is how Anna ended up in France. The slender blonde has starred for famous brands and graced the covers of several magazines, including the domestic version of Playboy. But still, she came to this industry too late. She has already turned 19, while girls of 14-15 years old come into the modeling business. The competition was huge. But she made good money to fulfill her cherished childhood dream - to become an actress.
Modeling career
Anna Churina got into the modeling business by accident. A friend, going to the casting, convinced the future star to join her. As a result, Anna attracted the attention of the prestigious Viva agency, which signed a contract with her. The girl had long dreamed of seeing the world, which made her agree.
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Anna worked as a model for several years and managed to appear in advertising for many famous brands (for example, Samsung).
Actor career
While still in Paris, Anna attended Jack Waltser's acting school for a year. This institution teaches students according to the methods of actor Mikhail Chekhov. Returning to Russia, she submitted documents to VGIK, where she became a student of the great Sergei Solovyov.
Anna Churina while studying at VGIK
Soon the first, albeit small, roles in Russian and foreign cinema began to appear. At the very beginning of the 2000s, the girl could be seen in the famous TV series “Turkish March” and the crime drama “Oligarch” with Vladimir Mashkov and Marat Basharov. The fact is that back in France, at the Cannes Film Festival, Anna met director Pavel Lungin, who later began filming “Oligarch.”
Anna Churina in the series “Turkish March”
On the set of the Italian film The Gang, Anna met Edoardo Leo, the future star of the highly acclaimed film Perfect Strangers (2015).
In 2006, Anna appeared in the sequel to the acclaimed film “Boomer. Film two” by Peter Buslov, which was well received by the audience. Fans appreciated the musical accompaniment performed by Sergei Shnurov, beautiful cinematography, the performance of Vladimir Vdovichenkov and the excellent debut of Svetlana Ustinova.
Anna Churina and Vladimir Vdovichenkov in the film “Boomer. Film two"
Over the next 5-6 years, Churina acted a lot, often in episodic roles in unpopular films and TV series. Her most striking works during this period were her roles in the melodramas “KostyaNik. Summer Time" (2006) about first love and "I'll Never Forget You!" (2007) about the relationship between a successful businessman (Anatoly Bely) and an aspiring journalist (Evgenia Loza).
A special project for Anna was the Georgian film “The Last Seeker” (2006), for which the actress with a calm character had to learn to express emotions expressively.
Anna Churina in the film “The Last Seeker”
In 2012, Churina appeared in the comedy “A Man with a Guarantee” about the unusual love of the owner of a shopping complex and its security guard. The main roles in the film went to Alexander Oleshko and Nonna Grishaeva. Anna appeared in the role of the bitchy wife of the main character’s competitor, businessman Laputev (Dmitry Nagiyev).
Anna Churina in the film “A Man with a Guarantee”
Two years later, the actress starred in the film adaptation of N.V.’s most terrible story. Gogol, "Viy 3D". Oleg Stepchenko's film deviates significantly from the original: the main character is the English cartographer Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng), whose lover Anna played. Anna Churina about the film “Viy 3D” It is noteworthy that famous Hollywood actors Vincent Cassel, Keanu Reeves and Sean Penn auditioned for the role of Green. Also in the film were Andrei Smolyakov, Alexey Chadov, Agniya Ditkovskite, etc. For the brilliant actor Valery Zolotukhin, the role in “Viya” was the last. "A sea of revelations." Anna Churina In 2020, Churina, who was gaining popularity in Russian cinema with all her might, could be seen in the poignant drama “The Teacher,” directed by the producer “Viya 3D.” The film tells the story of a desperate elderly teacher (Irina Kupchenko) who takes her entire class hostage. The film came under a barrage of negative reviews, but no one could accuse the adult actors of unprofessionalism.
Anna Churina and Andrey Merzlikin in the film “Teacher”
Anna's main roles in the films “Big Sister” (2013) and “Lost Reflection. Confession of a Kept Woman" (2017) went virtually unnoticed by the audience. But the role in the comedy “Mistresses” (2019), although minor, received recognition - partly because the film was released on big screens. On the set, Churina worked with the main young stars of modern cinema, Paulina Andreeva, Alexandra Bortich and Yulia Alexandrova.
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Born 07/23/1978, Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk region.
Start
Anna Churina was born on July 23, 1978 in a small town with the romantic name Lesnoy, in the Urals, in the Sverdlovsk region. She aspired to become an actress since childhood: she played in the city children's theater. But, as they say, “obedient people themselves follow fate, but it leads the disobedient.” After school, I was going to enter a theater university, but my parents insisted that my daughter enter Foreign Languages. There were never actors in the family, and this profession seemed too strange to them. And the girl, like an obedient daughter, entered the Institute of Foreign Languages in Nizhny Novgorod. Nevertheless, the girl’s childhood dream still did not leave her. The long road led Churina to the starting point, to the acting profession.
Model past
She never took the modeling business seriously. It “fell out” to her by accident: jokingly, she went with a friend to a casting and received an invitation from the famous French agency Viva. True, I always wanted to see the world, but, as always, there was no money. And this profession gave me the chance to visit many countries, I could travel and practice my language after foreign language. “While you’re young, you want to see the world and earn some money – okay, go for it, it’s a great thing! Although, in modeling, as in sports, the main thing is to stop in time and truly find yourself. Otherwise, when you turn thirty, you will be considered old, and you will lose your profession. And here stress, breakdowns, antidepressants begin - history knows many such cases,” the actress argues, “And yet many are eager to become models - it seems that this is behind fame, money and a complete “Dolce Vita.” But this is just a myth - easy money in the modeling business. If you carefully calculate the fees and expenses of a model, it is more profitable to sit in some office, without wasting your nerves, time and money on traveling in search of a decent job.” And despite all this, Anna Churina still went through her modeling past in Italy and France to come to the acting profession, to her old dream.
First film roles
It so happened that she began her film career abroad. First she studied in Paris, at the Jack Waltser acting school. And then the screen debut took place. The girl got into two Italian films – the TV series “La Banda” and the film “Anima” by Roberto Faenza – very simply: she came to the acting department of the modeling agency where she was working at that moment. She said that she was studying at the Jack Waltser drama school in Paris, and really wanted to try her hand at cinema. Churina got to the casting along with the other models, but she was still chosen. An actress was needed to play the role of a girl from Eastern Europe who spoke Italian with an accent. Later, the young actress was invited to two American projects, which, however, did not become widely known, but she gained experience working on the set. Of course, the actress had no illusions about herself: she understood perfectly well that a foreigner in Western films could play a limited number of roles. And again, another case. Once at the Cannes Film Festival, Anna Churina met Pavel Lungin. He was just about to film “Oligarch.” And again she was lucky - she passed the casting and starred in the role of a journalist with Mashkov himself. So, step by step, Anna Churina continued to successfully move in the acting direction. Soon the series “Turkish March-2” arose, in which the actress had a central role in one of the episodes. She started an intrigue that led to fatal events. At the same time, Anna Churina continued to act in small roles in some Western TV series. After “Oligarch” and “March,” Anna Churina decided that now she had been noticed and would be invited everywhere. But nothing like that happened. Well, the aspiring actress was not upset, did not give up and did not wait for something to change by itself. Anna continued to seek recognition: photography, endless auditions. They didn’t take her, but she still distributed photographs to all acting agencies and production companies, even the most remote ones, just to get through. And yet she was looked at as an amateur, since Churina had no Russian acting education.
Studies
To prove that her attitude to this profession is serious: Anna Churina went to study at VGIK with Sergei Solovyov. Then she was already 26 years old - it seemed like she was studying and it was a little late. But, nevertheless, Anna made up her mind, thanks to which she became more professionally confident. On the other hand, if she had gone to VGIK right after school, she might not have fit in so well with the process of the rise of cinema. When Churina entered VGIK, she realized that, despite her first, quite good, acting experiences, she actually knew almost nothing and she needed to study, study and study. Anna Churina's studies at VGIK are a total dedication to her work. She rehearsed like a fan from nine in the morning until midnight, even on Sundays. All the time she carried props from home: fans, typewriters, buckets of potatoes, and sewed costumes from gauze. Fantasy worked to its fullest. A beautiful girl and suddenly she was carrying buckets of potatoes? Hard to believe! And yet, it is so. It was just part of the job. At first she had to prove that she was not just a beautiful girl, but also a good actress. And by the end of the first year she succeeded. Perhaps, largely due to the choice of roles - after all, an actor begins to be perceived differently when they see that he is not fixated on his appearance. And also luck - the course was taught by three brilliant directors - Soloviev, Rubinchik and... a theater master - Mirzoev.
Return to screen
Persistence is always rewarded, and after a two-year break, the actress reappeared on the silver screen, after which she began acting non-stop - film after film. In 2005, a four-episode version of the blockbuster “Season of Men” was released: due to the episodes that were previously cut, the film “fattened” into a series. Anna Churina, without regret, cut off her long hair for filming in this large-scale project. The premiere took place first in Hollywood, then in Moscow. Churina’s role is small, a girl with a telephone, but it turns out that the main intrigue is connected precisely with her heroine. A film with unusual special effects and brilliant acting by Alexey Kravchenko, Alexey Petrukhin, Victoria Tolstoganova, Anna Chipovskaya, Vasily Livanov... You can’t list them all. The same year, Anna Churina starred as Vika in the TV series Full Throttle. In fact, the actress avoided TV series. It’s not that I completely renounced acting in them, but I tried to avoid them. But she couldn’t resist working with Andrei Panin himself. In addition, the actress needed experience and a lot of developed images in order to allow herself to get into work on the fly and not look fake. And yet Anna’s attitude towards the series has not changed. “Starting with TV series is bad, there is a chance to get washed out.” The work in the film is exquisite, there is enough time to get used to the character,” says the actress. This is how one thing clung to another. It was difficult to refuse, and besides, the actress wanted to try herself in different genres. Soon, Oleg Stepchenko’s group filmed the second part of the action “Men’s Season 2. Time of Anger”, where Anna Churina played a new variation of Mata Hari. It took the actress a year to turn the role of a drug lord’s niece, which was tiny in the initial script, into the main female one. Another main female role - journalist Alina, who helped the scientist save the world - was played by Anna Churina in the action-packed film "Shift". Note that the executive producer of “Shift” was Anna’s middle sister, who at that time was graduating from the economics department of VGIK.
"Signs of Love"
And then there was amazing filming in “Signs of Love” by Vladimir Mirzoev. At first the picture was called “Correction of Fate”, although this is a justified metamorphosis, it rather related to the role of Maxim Sukhanov. And the title “Signs of Love” probably appeals more to women’s hearts, plus it is more euphonious. But at the same time, men were definitely not bored watching this film. Anna Churina played the mistress of a married man, his role was played by Alexey Makarov. The heroine Churina perceived her situation as a real tragedy. For her, it was a trap from which it was impossible to get out. Magic came to the rescue, and the whole story took a very unexpected development - the audience was truly in for a big surprise. Vladimir Mirzoev has retained his signature style of presenting material on the silver screen, which has always distinguished his performances. And this is not only Mirzoev’s signature visual design: scenery, pavilion, scene of summoning the spirit, and so on, but also a deep understanding of each image. For example, the actress imagined the heroine’s reaction in her own way, but after the rehearsal with Vladimir Vladimirovich, something unexpected suddenly appeared, where, for example, embarrassment is expressed by laughter, which is not typical, absolutely hysterical, but it is so organic that you understand that this is how you should react in this situation!
Nice trend
2006 was not only a very busy year in terms of work. A very pleasant trend has emerged: Churina began to appear in roles in which the soul, heart, and life of a person are visible. So in the fall, the premiere of one low-budget art-house project took place at Kinotavr - “The Irrevocable Man” by Ekaterina Grokhovskaya and Pyotr Stepin. In “The Irrevocable Man,” Anna Churina played Nadezhda, a starlet on a local TV channel, for whom everything is outwardly well, but in fact in her soul and life there is complete disorder, total loneliness. A sad, true, tragic story of family breakdown. The mother, brilliantly played by Galina Loginova, dies - the daughters remain, the son has a conflict with his father. But in the image of her heroine, the actress managed to find a new facet and moved away from the usual stereotypes. The work in the film “The Last Seeker” turned out to be interesting, where Anna Churina played the main role – Natia. She says: “It was a new page for me. Because I still have a Nordic character, and I’m not used to such expression, to such expression of feelings. It was very useful and interesting to look at a different mentality, at a different culture, to somehow accept it... There were no decorations. Everything was filmed on real streets, and in the historical center of Tbilisi, where there are many unrestored houses, destroyed churches... The feeling of filming was truly unreal. A feeling of devastation, inner emptiness, inability to rely on anything. That’s why the film is like this.” And a completely different image was created by the actress in the film “Viy” based on the famous work of Gogol. Many people remember the events surrounding the release of the old film. The lead actress in that film, Natalya Varley, still considers her consent to filming a mistake. Anna Churina is not superstitious, but she is also afraid to touch such matters. And she agreed, since in the picture she was given the only bright image. This is a new version of Ekaterina Matveevna from the famous “White Sun of the Desert”, to whom letters are written.
Gloss
Anna Churina is a slender blonde with blue eyes, VGIK behind her and experience working in the USA, Europe and Russia. The type is a smart and bright person in all respects, loves the color white and everything light in general. Role - heroine, Hobbies - shooting for glossy magazines: NRG, Cosmo, Elle, Playboy..., as well as drawing, swimming, skiing, skating, diving, equestrianism, basketball and yoga. But social life is out of necessity. Passion - theatrical art and art in general. This includes dressing, but he doesn’t like to be greeted by his clothes. The actress always changes perfumes; she has no addiction to one thing. And since she has a good memory for smells, she likes when different aromas accompany her at different periods of her life. And no matter how indifferent Anna Churina is to decorative cosmetics, she will still have to think more and more about how to protect herself from the negative effects of stress, hard work and makeup. Here she is not at all original, sleep is a universal remedy, but the actress has not been able to experience its healing effects for a long time, although eight hours is enough for her not to look tired. And, of course, he definitely visits salons once a week. The profession is demanding, but she does it with pleasure. Loves various body wraps. And here’s another important point for the actress - air. At every opportunity, she tries to go somewhere and breathe, breathe the air.
Personal life
And behind the scenes, Anna Churina is a favorite. On the set of the first “Male Season” she met Alexei Petrukhin. And they registered the marriage. They just wanted to take away the passports with stamps. For some reason, the actress did not take this ceremony very seriously, and she felt like a wife only after the wedding. For her, this was a very important, reverent moment - accepting a person as her other half. It may sound a little pretentious, but Anna really believes in it! For a long time, the actress did not want children at all, because she had two younger sisters, and she was a nanny for them - that’s how her entire childhood passed. They even called her not Anya, but nanny. Therefore, having babysat them, she did not want a repeat for a long time. But nature takes its toll. She met a wonderful man, and they came to the conclusion that she wanted the family to be big and friendly. Moreover, Churina herself has before her eyes a wonderful example of her family - very friendly, who always went out into nature on holidays, organized some kind of performances, and grilled kebabs. That is, this model was already embedded in it. And her husband also doesn’t mind living in such a family. Now they have one daughter, but the couple dream of at least four children! Anna Churina is the embodiment of the dream that everyone is the architect of their own happiness. Perseverance, determination and faith in her calling paved the way for the provincial beauty - through Paris and London - to conquer Moscow. And then - only new horizons!
Personal life of Anna Churina
Since 2006, Anna Churina has been married to director Alexei Petrukhin. They met on the set of the film “A Man’s Season. Velvet Revolution” - Alexey wrote the script for the film. He attracted Churina's attention by photographing her all the time. Anna's fears were quickly dispelled - it turned out that the man simply fell in love at first sight. The family has a daughter, Ksenia (born 2006), growing up. Under her father’s name, she is also building a career as an actress and even starred with her mother in several films, for example, in “The Teacher,” the military drama “We Will Not Say Goodbye,” and the blockbuster “The Secret of the Dragon Seal” with Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan.
Anna Churina with her daughter and Jackie Chan
The couple live in perfect harmony. Anna calls the secret of an ideal marriage the ability to hear each other and make compromises. On the tenth anniversary of their marriage, the lovers repeated the wedding celebration during a trip along Lake Baikal, following the traditions of the Transbaikal Old Believers. Anna Churina in the program “Incredible Love Stories” The actress’s height is 174 cm.
Study, first roles
Anna Churina began to comprehend the basics of her future profession while working in France. The girl attended Jack Walzer's acting classes. In 2000, she first came to the set. The aspiring actress made her debut in the series “Gang,” in which she played a girl from Eastern Europe who had difficulty communicating in Italian.
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Then Anna met Pavel Lungin in Cannes, and the director invited her to star in his new film “Oligarch”. Churina got the role of a journalist, and Mashkov became her colleague on the set. Then she appeared in the television project “Turkish March-2” and became the main character of one of the episodes.
Actress Anna Churina decided to continue her education at VGIK. She managed to enroll on the first try and was accepted into Sergei Solovyov’s course. It was difficult to study at first, and besides, almost all of Anna’s classmates were younger than her.
Anna Churina now
On August 29, 2020, the family comedy “Dream Team” premiered. The plot of the film revolves around a fired sports commentator (Ian Tsapnik), who has to decide what is more important to him - his wife (Anna Churina) and little son or his career.
Anna Churina at the premiere of the film “Dream Team”
On the same day, another film with Churina was released on big screens, “The Last Test” by Alexei A. Petrukhin about the hostage taking in the theater on Dubrovka during the musical “Nord-Ost”. The actress admitted that filming was a real test for her - she had to play with a high temperature. To some extent, the film can be called a sequel to “The Teacher” - viewers will again see Irina Kupchenko on the screen, surrounded by students. “The Last Test” - trailer On September 19, 2019, the spin-off “Viya 3D”, the film “The Mystery of the Dragon Seal,” will be released on the big screens. This time Jonathan Green will go to explore the Russian Far East and mysterious China. The filmmakers brought in such big names as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones) and Jackie Chan. Also in the film will appear the recently deceased Rutger Hauer, the star of “Blade Runner,” who played the English ambassador. Churina will traditionally play the role of Miss Dudley.
Anna Churina and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film “The Secret of the Dragon Seal”
In addition to working in cinema, Churina does not forget about the theater. Today she can be seen in at least three performances – “Chaos. Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown" (with Elena Zakharova and Ekaterina Volkova), "Akaky A. Bashmachkin" by Theater Studio 21 and "Betrayal" directed by Vladimir Mirzoev. However, all of these are one-time projects. The actress does not want to join the theater for a permanent job - so far everything is going well for her in the cinema.
Movies
While studying at the Cinematography Institute, the future screen star continued to act in episodic and supporting roles. You can note her character Renata in the blockbuster “Boomer. Film two", episodic role of the girl Lika in the series " Two Fates"
"(Anna participated in seasons 2 and 3).
Anna Churina starred in the film “Boomer. Film two"
There was also a tiny episode in the film “Male Season: The Velvet Revolution” with her participation, the role of Angela in the comedy “It’s Not Harmful to Dream”, Anastasia in the teenage fantasy “Kostyanika. Summer Time,” Nadezhda in the psychological drama “The Irrevocable Man.”
Anna Churina in the film “It’s Not Harmful to Dream”
More serious work went to Anna Churina in the joint Russian-Georgian film “The Last Seeker,” where she plays one of the main characters, Natia. More interesting offers began to arrive after Anna’s filming in the television series “Full Throttle.” Before this, Churina did not want to participate in TV series, considering them second-rate, but in this case her decision to agree to the role of Vicky turned out to be successful.
Anna Churina in the film "Viy"
Almost immediately after the series, she was offered the main female role in the film “Shift,” which was released in 2006. In the same year, the film “Signs of Love” directed by Vladimir Mirzoev appeared, the filming of which Churina remembers with particular warmth. The actress’s notable work was the role of Miss Dudley, the only bright character in the film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s story “Viy”. In addition, the actress has three successful theatrical productions under her belt: “Betrayal,” “Akaky A. Shoemaker” and “Chaos.”
[edit] Biography
Born in Sverdlovsk-45. She graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages in Nizhny Novgorod, worked as a model (height - 174 cm) in international agencies VIVA (France), PREMIER (UK), M4 (Germany), WHY NOT (Italy), KARINE (USA), made her film debut in Italian TV series “LA BANDA”, dir. Claudio Fergasso, then entered VGIK (workshop of S. Solovyov, V. Mirzoev, and V. Rubinchik). She graduated from VGIK in 2006 with honors.
The very first Russian film was “Oligarch”, dir. Pavel Lungin, the role of a journalist who accidentally saved the hero Vladimir Mashkov from a car explosion. Graduation role - Irina in the film “Signs of Love”, dir. V. Mirzoev. Then there were filming in TV series, feature films, and participation in theatrical projects.
In April 2006, she graced the cover of the Russian version of Playboy magazine[1][2]
In 2012, she took part in the reality show “Polyglot” (Italian)[3].
Member of the jury of the Amur Autumn festival 2020.[4]
Anna's husband is actor, director and producer Alexey Petrukhin (married since 2005). There is a daughter, Ksenia[5].
She has been repeatedly recognized as one of the most beautiful actresses in Russian cinema[6][7][8].
On March 11, 2020, she took part in the festive edition of “Own Game”, winning with a good result.[9]
