BIOGRAPHY
Daria Shcherbakova was born into a family of artists.
Her mother is an actress, theater teacher and director Natalya Kovaleva. Father is Taganka Theater actor Dalvin Shcherbakov, also known for the films “The First Trolleybus”, “We’ll Live Until Monday” and others. From the age of 5, the girl studied piano at a music school. And at 14, she picked up the guitar and soon began writing songs.
In 2010, Daria Shcherbakova graduated from the Higher Theater School. Shchukin (course of R. Ovchinnikov).
THEATER
The young actress was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow theater “At the Nikitsky Gates”. The first successes were not long in coming.
“This is the beginning!.. Where is the “Debut” award going?.. Dasha Shcherbakova in just one season managed to play three (!) main roles on our stage and the same number of non-main, but very significant ones,” writes Mark Rozovsky , artistic director of the theater.
Today, Daria is busy in the plays “A Streetcar Named Desire” (Stella), “Mirandolina” (Mirandolina), “Forget-Me-Nots” (Sonechka), “Poor Lisa” (Liza), “Hamlet” (Ophelia) and others.
In addition, Daria Shcherbakova is a guest actress of the Vakhtangov Theater. She plays one of the main roles in the play “Our Class” based on the play by T. Slobodzyanek (dir. N. Kovalev). The plot is based on real events that occurred in the summer of 1941 in the Polish town of Jedwabne. Then the local population organized the mass burning of Jews. In the play, this tragedy is reflected in the fates of ten classmates, divided into victims and executioners. Daria Shcherbakova plays
, who is destined to die at the hands of her former classmates.
In 2020, the play “Our Class” won the MK Theater Prize in the category “Best Acting Ensemble”.
THEATER WORKS
Diploma performances:
- “Children of the Sun” (M. Gorky) - Lisa
- “Love” (L. Petrushevskaya) - Sveta
- “Employees” (F. Sollogub) - Adelaide
Educational Theater of the Institute named after. Shchukina:
- “About Love and Friendship”, based on three one-act plays by Petrushevskaya, Grishkovets and Zlotnikov (dir. R. Ovchinnikov) - Sveta
Theater "At the Nikitsky Gate":
- “Poor Lisa” (N. Karamzin) - Lisa
- “Mirandolina” (C. Goldoni) - Mirandolina
- “Days of Our Lives” (L. Andreev) - Olga
- “Forget-me-nots” (L. Ulitskaya) - Sonechka
- “How I.I. quarreled.” with I.N.” (N. Gogol) - Gapka
- “Leopold the Cat’s Birthday” – White Mouse
- “The History of a Horse” (based on the story “Kholstomer” by L. Tolstoy)
- “Pro Process” (F. Kafka) - Leni
- “The Tale of Tsar Max Emelyan” - Alena
- “Be healthy, schoolboy!” (B. Okudzhava) - Zhenka, Girl
- “Oh, dear friend!” (Guy de Maupassant) - Clotilde de Morel
- “Anna Karenina.Lecture” (V. Nabokov after L. Tolstoy) - Countess Nordston
- “BM-Double-U (or White BMW)” (V. Voinovich) - Klava
- "Brothers" (Ray and Michael Cooney) - Linda Curwood
- “The Cherry Orchard” (A. Chekhov) - Anya
- “Gambrinus” (A. Kuprin) - Sonya, Marseillaise, choir of “Gambrinus” visitors
- "Hamlet" (W. Shakespeare) - Ophelia
- "A Streetcar Named Desire" (T. Williams) - Stella
Theater named after Vakhtangov:
- “Our class” (T. Slobodzianek) - Dora
Actress Daria Shcherbakova: It seems to me that I’m a real whiner
Soon the premiere of the series “Black Blood” will take place on the Ukraine channel. This is a story about two sisters who fall in love with the same man. According to the plot of the film, in the struggle for her happiness, the older sister Olga decides to take radical measures - she goes to the witch and asks for a love spell. “You will pay for your short woman’s happiness,” the sorceress Glafira warned then, “And you will settle accounts with me in such a way that you will howl with grief.” Olga didn’t believe it, but from that moment the life of this family changed forever. We visited the set of this film and talked with actress Daria Shcherbakova, who played Olga’s daughter Alena.
Dasha, tell us about your heroine. What attracted you to this role?
This role is radically different from everything I’ve played before, because most often I was cast in the roles of girls with an unfortunate fate. Here my heroine has a strong character. As the film progresses, she changes: at first she is a girl who has not yet seen life, in her head there is romance, love, in fact, I was most often cast in such roles before. At some point she becomes very open, but irritable. And then, on the contrary, she closes down, she becomes indifferent to everything, doesn’t care about anything, doesn’t need anything. The changes in a person that occur over 10 years are interesting. But the difficulty, of course, is that the scenes are filmed in random order, sometimes the final scene is filmed, and then a scene that takes place ten years earlier, then a scene that takes place five years earlier, and sometimes you get confused.
Were there scenes where you had to overcome yourself? Perhaps you had to do something for the first time?
For the first time, probably not, but every time you still try to do everything in a new, different way, not the way you did six months ago. You always want to do better, and every time you think that this time you understand much more. And regarding overcoming oneself, there were several very dramatic scenes, such as: “Wow!”, where the highest degree was needed. I thought for a long time, adjusted myself, shot many takes, but I want each next take to be no worse than the previous one, because it is unknown which one they will choose. There was one scene in which my heroine is hysterical, screaming: “Ah! I hate it! That’s it!”, and this was repeated many times... It seems like you’re not really doing it, it’s just a game, but after the sixth take I felt my leg obsessively itching: I scratched it once, a second time, something incomprehensible - it doesn’t stop, then I look, and there are blisters, hives, although I’ve never had it in my life, no matter how nervous I am. And so it turns out that you are playing for fun, and the body has been deceived.
How do you recover from such emotionally intense scenes?
I don’t need a lot of time, I’m just a little tired mentally. Precisely from being under stress for a long time. Personally, I can’t get away from constantly evaluating myself: “Oh, I didn’t do this very well, but this is pretty tolerable.”
Probably watch all the films with your participation.
Yes I am watching. Some people can’t look at themselves, but I do. Sometimes it’s disgusting, sometimes it’s pleasant, it happens in different ways. In general, I think that you need to watch, because you draw some conclusions for yourself: what you did well and what you did poorly. And in general, I am very grateful to this role for the fact that I could try myself in a variety of situations.
Do you think you have any similarities with your heroine?
Well, first of all, I drink... (Laughs) Just kidding, I have difficulties in this regard. It’s hard for me to play when I’m drunk; I probably don’t drink enough. I once noticed that those who drink a little in their dressing room at the theater, then play drunk perfectly well. Simply brilliant, in my opinion. But it’s difficult for me. And my mother also told me that I am a strong person. Although I don't feel it, I actually feel like I'm a real whiner. I probably wouldn’t have been able to go through as much as my heroine Alena went through.
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MOVIE
"Ivan groznyj"
In 2009, Daria Shcherbakova made her debut in the serial historical film “Ivan the Terrible”.
The director of the film, Andrei Eshpai, said: “I immediately consciously made sure that the faces were mostly unknown. I wanted to create a space in which we would not read familiar features in combination with makeup. I’m glad that I have “natural” faces in the frame, which we do not correlate with modern space and therefore can be perceived as a face from there.” As a result, the role of Ivan the Terrible was played by Alexander Demidov, the king in his youth was played by Ivan Makarevich, the son of the leader of the Time Machine group Andrei Makarevich. And student Daria Shcherbakova got the role of young Marfa Sobakina, the tsar’s third wife.
Then there were episodes in the TV series “Detectives”, “Hot Pursuit” and others. And in 2012, the television film “Bonfire in the Snow” was released, where Daria Shcherbakova played the main role.
"Bonfire in the Snow"
According to the plot, Nastya, a kind and naive girl, returns home to her native village after boarding school. No one is happy to see her at home: the family lives in poverty, and Nastya has long become a stranger even to her own mother. Then the girl accidentally meets the governor's son Pavel. They begin an affair, and soon Nastya realizes that she is pregnant. But it turned out that this was not part of the young man’s plans...
The heroines of the actress generally face many challenges. In the melodrama “Tango of the Moth,” Daria played veterinarian Anya Zaretskaya, who is beset by misfortunes one after another: her husband leaves, her neighbors flee her apartment, she loses her long-awaited child. And in the series “Leaving to Return,” her heroine Alice, the daughter of a construction magnate, is trying to kill her own husband.
In the detective series “Moscow Greyhound” the girl played two small roles at once: the sisters Dasha and Tanya Zybin.
"Joker"
In 2020, the comedy “Joker” based on the early stories of A.P. Chekhov was released. Daria Shcherbakova played the main role - the lovely Lelya, whom the promising young man Maxim wants to marry. The girl reciprocates his feelings, but then relatives intervene, who are always not happy with something. Every minute a new “skeleton in the closet” is discovered - and now the happiness of the young is under threat.
For this work, Daria Shcherbakova received a prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Movies
Daria Shcherbakova first appeared in feature films back in her student days. Then she appeared in two episodes of the crime series “Detectives”, and played different characters in each episode. And in 2009, she got the role of Marfa Sobakina in the historical film “Ivan the Terrible.”
The actress first attracted serious attention from viewers thanks to the melodrama “A Bonfire in the Snow,” and received all-Russian recognition after the release of a women’s life story about a provincial girl who came to conquer Moscow, “Mistress of the Big City.”
No less dramatic were such works as “Leave to Return” and “Tango of the Moth,” which strengthened her popularity.
It is also worth noting the crime series “Moscow Greyhound”, in which Shcherbakova played two roles at once - twin sisters Dasha and Tanya Zybin.
In 2014, the actress played the main role in the melodrama “Leave to Return.” The heroine of Daria Shcherbakova is a talented, smart and beautiful girl Alisa, who finds a simple and even ordinary groom. The girl's parents suspect that the young man is pursuing selfish and unclean goals and try to stop the wedding, but fail. The girl gets married and after that the heroine’s life becomes a nightmare.
In 2020, Daria Shcherbakova played a minor role in the youth comedy melodrama “Roof of the World” about a hostel in the center of Moscow.
Also in 2020, the actress finished filming the family comedy “Joker”, in which her partner was actor Andrei Okhotin. The actress herself played the main female role of Lelya. On January 26, 2020, the premiere of this family film based on the stories of Anton Chekhov took place.
The film tells about the love of two people of different classes, whose marriage is interfered with by acquaintances on both sides. Lelya's parents are dissatisfied with the groom's origins, and a distant relative of the groom considers this a good moment to begin blackmailing the young man about a long-standing secret.
Filmography: Actress
- Temptation by inheritance (2019)
- Godmother (2019)
- Never say “Never” (2019), TV series
- Black Blood (2017), TV series
- Tales of the Rublevsky Forest (2017)
- Roof of the World (2016), TV series
- Joker (2016)
- Tango Moth (2015)
- Pyatnitsky. Chapter Four (2014), TV series
- Leave to come back (2014), TV series
- Moscow Greyhound (2014), TV series
- Neverland (2013), short film
- Mistress of the Big City (2013)
- Fighters (2013), TV series
- Anechka (2012), TV series
- Forester (2012), TV series
- Bonfire in the Snow (2012)
- The Beauharnais Effect (2012), TV series
- SOBR (2011), TV series
- Hot on the heels (2010), TV series
- Detectives (2010), TV series
- Ivan the Terrible (2009), TV series
Daria Shcherbakova now
In April 2020, the melodramatic film “Godmother” was shown, in which Daria played a woman who sacrificed her personal happiness for the sake of her friend’s children. However, Fortune did not leave the noble and sincere act of the heroine Dasha without reward and gave her a happy meeting. Daria's partner in this project was Roman Polyansky.
Daria Shcherbakova in the film "Godmother"
At the beginning of May 2020, viewers of the main Russian channel were able to see Dasha in the musical mini-series “Never Say Never.” And although the surname of the heroine is Dasha Bulatova, you can easily recognize her as the singer Tatyana Bulanova, whose star rose to the musical Olympus in the difficult for many, but bright and eventful 90s.
Well, Daria, by her own admission, after working on the series, fell in love with the singer’s work, although she had not previously had warm feelings for it.
“Never Say Never”: Daria Shcherbakova as Tatyana Bulanova
