Having achieved considerable victories in figure skating, Maria Anikanova was not afraid to change her biography and pursue an acting career, where she also had success. Many of the actress’s works have long been appreciated by viewers who fell in love with her kind and courageous heroines.
Maria herself, like many of her characters, learned to forgive human mistakes and betrayal. Now, after mistakes and failures, she finds the strength to move on, enjoying every day.
Height, weight, age. How old is Maria Anikanova
Viewers noticed the girl in her very first film work, Sergei Solovyov’s film “House by Starry Sky,” and since then many have been actively following her professional activities. A beautiful actress is a subject of admiration for men and respect for representatives of the fair sex, so online users are interested in her personal life, new jobs, hobbies and interests, and also ask about her height, weight, age. It’s not difficult to find out how old Maria Anikanova is; to do this, just go to her Wikipedia page.
The actress is now 44 years old, she actively acts in films, and in 2018, the series “The Impossible Woman” was released with her in the title role.
Biography and personal life of Maria Anikanova
The actress was born in 1973 in Moscow. Born into a family of third-generation athletes, Maria was actively involved in ice dancing since childhood. Skates and ice were Anikanova’s passion throughout her childhood; she worked hard, performing difficult “steps” on the ice, but every victory over herself and her rivals brought great pleasure to the girl. For a long time she trained in single skating, performing complex pirouettes on her own, and after some time she began to go on the ice in a group with other skaters, and then in pairs. Her partner for a long time was the Russian figure skater Pyotr Chernyshev (the real husband of Anastasia Zavorotnyuk), they won many medals and achieved many victories together, but soon Maria faced the injustice of life for the first time.
The biography and personal life of Maria Anikanova are closely intertwined, because for a long time she was secretly in love with her ice partner. At that time, Petya was dating a girl who decided to leave for America. Despite the fact that Chernyshev and Anikanova were preparing a complex joint program, the skater informs his partner that he plans to emigrate to the USA, following his beloved, and the skater is left without a partner for the competition.
She took this step as a betrayal, and cried for many weeks, realizing that now she would not compete. At the same time, Masha receives an offer to act in a movie, and in order to somehow dispel her sadness, the girl agrees. And for good reason. This first work of hers, the film “House Under the Starry Sky,” brings the aspiring actress very rapid popularity, and she, intoxicated by success in cinema and resentment towards her former figure skating partner, decides to change her profession and enters the Shchukin School. For five years, the future actress has been studying acting, and at the same time acting in films. True, all the films of the actress during this period are little known.
Personal life
Anikanova's first husband was Evgeniy Platov, a figure skater. They first met when Maria was 14. The marriage lasted 3 years, they divorced due to an unsettled life. Evgeniy was invited to America, Masha did not go with him, but took up her career.
Later, Ilya Kulik, winner of the Nagano Olympics, became Maria’s husband. For the sake of her family, Anikanova left her job and went to America with her husband. But Ilya was away from home for a long time, playing sports, and Maria quickly got tired of being a housewife. The marriage broke up.
Then Anikanova met Andrey Sipin, an actor. He is 3 years younger than Maria. They got married, and in 2010 their daughter Aglaya was born. Anikanova monitors her health, devotes a lot of time to sports, and maintains an Instagram account.
Filmography: films starring Maria Anikanova
Maria’s filmography, which is well known to fans, includes such films as “Hunting for Manchurian Man,” “KGB in a Tuxedo,” and the TV series “Two Fates,” where the actress played the main role.
In 2008, for the first time in many years, she started skating again: she plays a figure skater in the TV series “Hot Ice,” which also starred Ekaterina Guseva. And in 2013, the series “The Sniffer” was released, and then “The Sniffer-2”, where the actress plays the role of the protagonist’s ex-wife, and thereby earns fans who love detective stories.
Theater
As soon as Maria graduated from theater school, she was accepted into the troupe of the Sovremennik Theater. For some time, the actress had a break from theatrical work due to her departure to the USA, but after returning to Moscow she was accepted back.
Roles of Maria Anikanova in the theater:
- “Four Lines for a Debutante” by J. Anouilh – Colombe,
- “The Cherry Orchard” by A. P. Chekhov - Anna,
- “Steep Route” Evgenia Ginzburg - Ekaterina Shirokova,
- “Anomaly” by Alexandra Galin - Zhanna Kalmykova,
- “Stars in the morning sky” Alexandra Galina - Maria,
- "Balalaikin and Co" M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrin - Polina,
- “Celestine” by Nikolai Kolyada - Melibea.
Maria acted in films while still studying. In 1992, she played the main role in Alexander Pankratov’s film “Tomorrow”.
Then there was a break in the actress’s career, and in 2000 she returned to cinema. At first she mostly had small roles.
Maria became famous for her work in the telenovelas “Two Fates-2: Blue Blood” and “Two Fates-3: The Golden Cage”. There the actress had one of the main roles - Svetlana Yusupova.
In 2007, Maria played in the series “A Woman without a Past.” Her heroine is a strong woman who lost her memory after an accident.
In the telenovela “Missing”, the actress appeared in the image of a psychologist from a special department of the Investigative Committee, who searches for people who have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
In 2009, Sergei Solovyov’s film “Anna Karenina” was released, in which Maria played Kitty Shcherbakova.
In the drama “When the Cranes Fly South,” the actress’s heroine is a single mother who is looking for money for her daughter’s treatment.
Family and children of Maria Anikanova
Anikanova became an actress by pure chance. Fate had destined her for a completely different life and a different, no less brilliant, career. Her grandmother and grandfather on her father’s side were also famous speed skaters who competed for the USSR, and bore the famous surname Anikanov. Their son (Maria’s father), Victor, was a sports doctor for the USSR figure skating team, and the actress’s mother, Irina Lyulyakova, was also a figure skater.
Her parents met right there on the ice. Irina skated and performed difficult steps, and Victor once treated her injury, and so a feeling arose between them. The actress’s parents always dreamed that their daughter would become a champion and conquer the icy Olympus, but Masha “kicked up” and changed her life, despite years of hard work. Of course, today the family and children of Maria Anikanova could be proud of her, but in her heart the actress’s mother always imagines what a great figure skater her daughter could become.
Biography
Maria was born in Moscow in the family of figure skater Irina Lyulyakova and the famous doctor of the USSR and Russian national figure skating teams Viktor Anikanov. And her grandparents are famous Soviet speed skaters Ivan and Maria Anikanov. Therefore, Maria herself was involved in figure skating from early childhood. She trained with Tatyana Tarasova with her partner Samvel Gezalyan, and then with Gennady Ackerman, paired with Pyotr Chernyshev. By the age of 16, she was already a master of sports, but decided to end her figure skating career.
Daughter of Maria Anikanova - Aglaya Sipina
The artist gave birth to her first child quite late, at 37 years old. The actress practiced figure skating for many years, and then acted a lot in films, worked in the theater, and kept postponing the birth of an heir until “later.” Even being married to her first husband, Mary did not give birth to a child.
History is silent about why this happened, maybe the woman didn’t want to, or maybe it didn’t work out, but the artist gave birth to a daughter in her second marriage to another man. Maria Anikanova’s daughter, Aglaya Sipina, was born in 2010. The actress gave her daughter a rare name. Today Anikanova’s daughter is 8 years old, the girl is studying at school in Moscow. The mother does not impose her hobbies on the girl, and believes that, like herself once, the daughter must choose her own path.
Former husband of Maria Anikanova - Evgeny Platov
Despite the fact that the girl chose a different life and career, she communicated closely with those who remained on the ice, sometimes came to rehearsals and skated for herself. At the age of 19, she began dating figure skater Evgeny Platov, with whom she had often met in training before.
The young people got married in 1992, they had a very good marriage, but soon, like Pyotr Chernyshev, Platov was offered a successful career in America, and now the second man in Anikanova’s life chose not her, but his favorite business. Despite the fact that the girl did not want to go overseas with her husband, Maria Anikanova’s ex-husband, Evgeny Platov, flies to the USA without her, and in 1995 they divorced.
Student years
In 1990, our heroine graduated from high school. By that time, the girl had already decided on her profession. She wanted to become a famous actress. Maria Anikanova submitted documents to VTU named after. Shchukin. She managed to cope with the entrance tests. The brunette was enrolled in the acting department.
In 1995, Anikanova was awarded a diploma of completion of “Pike”. Almost immediately she was accepted into the troupe of the Sovremennik Theater. On the stage of this institution she played many interesting roles. For example, in “The Cherry Orchard” Maria tried on the image of Anna. And in the play “Anomaly” she played the role of Zhanna Kalmykova.
Maria Anikanova's husband - Andrey Sipin
Probably, the actress had some kind of emptiness in her soul after two betrayals by figure skaters, and she no longer considered men of this profession for herself. Soon she met with the RAMT actor. She and her friend came to the theater for the play “The Cherry Orchard” and after the performance went backstage to congratulate the actors.
A few days later Andrei called her and asked her out on a date, so they began dating, and in 2003 they had a beautiful wedding. Maria Anikanova’s husband, Andrei Sipin, made the actress truly happy, they have a very good family, their son is growing up, and the spouses, which is very important, have similar interests.
Instagram and Wikipedia Maria Anikanova
Despite the fact that the actress is very famous and popular, she does not suffer from star fever at all, however, the actress does not like to communicate with the public. She values her privacy very much, talks little about personal things, and never complains.
There are photos of the star with her family on the Internet, but there are not very many of them, and fans are very upset that the artist does not maintain an Instagram page. Both Maria Anikanova’s Wikipedia and her page on the well-known portal about Russian actors “kino-teatr.ru” contain a lot of information about the actress, her roles and work in cinema.
