Biography
There is not a drop of Russian blood in the actress’s veins, but Julia Aug calls herself a bearer of Russian culture. That's how she feels. Fans and film critics compare the artist with Natalya Gundareva and Nonna Mordyukova. Aug admits that this flatters her and she feels natural in the role of a “simple Russian woman.” But she is also natural in the role of empresses and princesses. Her skill was applauded by Quentin Tarantino, and in Russia she was awarded the prestigious Nika for her work in the drama “The Apprentice.”
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Childhood and youth
Yulia Arturovna Aug was born in June 1970 in Leningrad. Soon after the birth of their daughter, the family moved to Estonia, where they settled in the city of Narva. The future actress spent her childhood and teenage years there. The surname Aug, according to the artist, is totemic and is translated from Estonian as “pike.” Jewish, Polish, Swedish and Estonian blood was mixed in Julia's veins.
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Yulia Aug in her youth
After graduating from school, Yulia Aug returned to her native Leningrad and entered the Academy of Theater Arts (LGITMiK), where she studied acting on the course of Andrei Andreev. After graduating from high school, Yulia received an invitation to work at the city Theater for Young Spectators named after A. Bryantsev. After 10 years of service in the theater, Aug continued her education in Moscow.
In 2004, she became a student at GITIS, where she studied directing. Julia graduated from the second university with honors, but did not stop there either: in 2007 she entered the directing department of the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors, where she studied with Irakli Kvirikadze and Andrei Dobrovolsky.
Movies
The cinematic biography of Yulia Aug opens with the fantastic film “The Kidnapping of the Sorcerer” by Viktor Kobzev, where the 19-year-old actress starred in the dual role of graduate student Anna, who turns into Princess Magdalena. The actress’s appearance will more than once prompt directors to choose her if they need to play aristocrats of the 19th century. The film premiered in 1989. On the set of the film, Yulia Aug met with stage masters Romualdas Ramanauskas, Sergei Varchuk and Vladimir Gostyukhin.
Julia Aug (still from the film “White Horse”)
The following year, Aug was entrusted with the role of Dvoira in the fantasy film by Vladimir Zeldovich, which was based on the stories of Isaac Babel. In 1992, viewers saw Aug in the role of Grand Duchess Maria in the film “Atoning Sacrifice.” The following year, Julia again appeared in the costume historical drama “The White Horse” and again played the Grand Duchess.
From the late 1990s to 2005, Julia Aug acted little: she appeared in episodes and supporting roles in 5-6 films. Among the works of this period, the film-play “Demi-God” by Alexander Belinsky based on the work of Kuprin, released in 1995, stands out.
Stanislav Govorukhin helped the actress return to the screens, offering her the main role in the melodrama “Not by Bread Alone.” The film, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vladimir Dudintsev, was released in 2005.
Julia Aug (still from the film “Demi-God”)
Yulia Aug received her first prize for acting in 2007, after the release of the film “Enemies” by Alexei Uchitel and Maria Mozhar. For the best actress in this film, the artist was awarded the Baltic Debuts film festival award. The plot tells about the period of the fascist occupation of Belarus.
Fame and recognition came to the actress in 2010: viewers saw Alexei Fedorchenko’s drama “Oatmeal,” shown in Russia, as well as in 9 European countries and America. “Ovsyanki” represented Russia in the competition program of the 67th Venice Festival, where they received 5 prizes.
Julia Aug (still from the film “Oatmeal”)
Then Quentin Tarantino expressed his admiration for Aug’s performance, and film critics wrote reviews of the film in laudatory terms. Reviewer Valery Kichin called the film “a pagan poem of enormous emotional power that has a hypnotic effect,” and drew a parallel between “Oatmeal” and Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Mirror.”
In 2012, Julia Aug delighted fans with her appearance in the ethnic fairy tale “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari.” This is the second film directed by Alexei Fedorchenko, which brought glory to Russian cinema. The world premiere of the film took place in the winter of 2012 in Rome. The XXIV “Kinotavr” opened in Sochi with an ethnic fairy tale; at the VII International Film Festival “Zerkalo” named after A. Tarkovsky, the film received the audience award and was included in 3 “Nicky” nominations.
Julia Aug (still from the film “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari”)
The following year, the erotic drama “Intimate Parts” by Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov was released, where Yulia Aug and Olesya Sudzilovskaya played the main characters. For her work in this film, the actress was awarded the prize for best actress at the Sochi film festival "Kinotavr" and the "White Elephant" award from the Guild of Film Critics.
In 2014, the series “Ekaterina. Takeoff,” which instantly won the favor of viewers in Russia and the post-Soviet countries. Julia Aug appeared in the image of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Her favorite, Count Razumovsky, was played by Alexander Lazarev, Jr. For her skill and brilliant portrayal of the character, the artist received awards from the Association of Cinema Producers and TEFI. The role of Queen Elizabeth became for Aug a pass to the mass audience, because the previous films were auteur cinema.
Julia Aug as Elizaveta Petrovna (still from the TV series “Ekaterina. Take Off”)
In 2020, Julia Aug received an award as a theater director. In March, she was nominated for the Crystal Mask prize at the Krasnoyarsk Theater Spring 2015 festival for the production of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Aug’s debut film comedy “Sakura Jam,” which starred Pyotr Krasilov, Alexey Panin, Renat Davletyarov and Maria Aronova, earned high marks from critics. Yulia Aug has shot many videos for the Russian rap group “25/17”.
Julia Aug (still from the film “The Apprentice”)
In 2020, the Russian drama “The Apprentice” by Kirill Serebrennikov was released. The film won the François Chalet Prize from the independent French press. European countries bought the rights to broadcast the film. For Best Supporting Actress, Yulia Aug received the Nika Award and was nominated for the Golden Eagle film award. The main character Veniamin Yuzhin was played by actor Pyotr Skvortsov. Julia Aug got the role of his mother Inga Yuzhina.
In 2020, fans saw the actress in the films “Excellent Student,” “Hit,” “Garden Ring” and the mini-series “Personal Space” by Valeria Gai Germanika. An interesting project for Yulia was the horror film “Ghouls”, in which she played a minor role. Together with Anatoly Bely and Igor Mirkurbanov, Aug appeared in the melodrama “House of Porcelain,” and in the acting ensemble with Alexei Guskov she played in the action-packed drama “Identity Unidentified.”
Filmography
In Polina’s first film, “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari,” which was about the women of the Mare people, the actress played one of the main roles, and starred with her mother. The following year, Polina again visited the same set with her mother during the filming of Guseva’s film “Dreams. Sophia." The actress also appeared before the audience in the comedy “Moms-3”. Another appearance of Polina Aug in films is observed in a supporting role in the film “Angels of the Revolution”. Polina embodied in the movie the image of the daughter of one of the heroes of the series “Where the Motherland Begins.” In 2020, the actress played in the fantasy film “Orleans” by Proshkin. In the film, Polina played a small role of a girl who fell under the influence of an unscrupulous hero. In the same year, the actress appeared in the film “Security” by Alexander Proshkin.
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Personal life
Julia Aug has an army of thousands of fans. The actress is loved for her talent, acting skills and beauty. Julia has blue eyes, naturally reddish curls and is 1.76 cm tall. She is from that category of women who are called luxurious. The woman was never ashamed of her curvy figure, easily undressing in front of the camera and on stage, starring in erotic scenes in the films “Oatmeal”, “Intimate Parts” and “Wives of the Meadow Mari”. Julia Aug's weight is 80 kg.
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Julia Aug and her daughter Polina
The actress surprisingly organically transforms into royalty: it seems that blue blood flows in her veins. Fans find confirmation of this on her Instagram page: Julia posts her photos, which she compares with the images of the royal nobility. It turned out that the performer has almost 100% similarity with Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna.
In an interview, Julia Aug said that on her father’s side there were small-landed Swedish nobles, the Klettenbergs. Grandmother Aug taught her granddaughter how to knixen, embroider and instilled a love of music.
But beauty and talent did not bring Julia Aug happiness in her personal life. The first husband Stepan, with whom the only daughter Polina was born, left for the actress’s best friend. The woman learned to survive on her own, act and be responsible for her and her daughter’s lives. These qualities helped Aug become a director.
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Yulia Aug and her daughter Polina
Yulia Aug was burned more than once by male infidelity and painfully experienced betrayal and meanness. At some point, she decided that a happy marriage was not for her. During this period, the actress met her soulmate - entrepreneur Andrei Skulov. In an interview, Yulia said that Andrei compared her to a large ship that has neither a harbor nor a pier. Soon Skulov became that quiet and reliable harbor to which Aug returned every day.
In mid-December 2020, Andrei Skulov died. The couple lived together for 15 years and had no children together. The suspected cause of death of the actress's husband was a heart attack. Andrei’s health was undermined by business failures and a huge loan, the collateral of which was the house of Aug and Skulov. The man suffered 2 mini-strokes; doctors diagnosed cerebral ischemia. Andrei Skulov's heart stopped in his sleep.
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Julia Aug in 2020
Julia Aug grabbed any job, asked for a loan to repay the loan. The woman was able to get out of debt slavery in January 2020, which she shared with relief on her Facebook page. Friends and fans helped her.
Daughter Polina followed in her mother’s footsteps: she entered the Moscow Art Theater School, but soon transferred to GITIS, where she studied in the workshop of Sergei Golomazov. At the age of 15, Polina starred with her mother in the film “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari.”
Polina Aug
Russian theater and film actress.
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Polina Stepanovna Aug is a Russian actress, known for the TV series “Where the Motherland Begins” and “Doctor Richter”, the feature films “Girl with a Braid”, “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari”.
Polina was born on September 21, 1995 in the family of actors Yulia Aug and Stepan Zolotukhin, who met during their student years and played together in the St. Petersburg Youth Theater. Aug's mother is ethnic Estonian; the unusual surname is translated from Estonian as “pike”.
Soon after Polina was born, Yulia and Stepan divorced and each took up their own careers. Until the age of 10, the girl was raised by her grandparents - first in Krasnoyarsk, then in Estonia. Then Polina moved to Moscow and began to live with her mother. Yulia says that she never prevented her daughter from communicating with her father, who became a businessman, and his new family, in which Polina had a half-brother.
After graduating from school, Aug entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School, but for reasons that the girl does not like to talk about, she soon had to leave her studies. After leaving the Studio School, Polina spent three months in severe depression and almost did not leave the house. Then the girl transferred to RATI-GITIS, to the course of Sergei Anatolyevich Golomazov.
Polina became acquainted with the world of cinema early - from the age of 10 she often visited the sets of films in which her mother played. At the age of 15, Aug Jr. tried her hand at acting as an actress, starring in the art-house ethnic film project by Alexei Fedorchenko “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari.”
In the film, which consists of two dozen separate stories about the life and everyday life of women of the Mari people, the aspiring actress got one of the main roles - “the mistress of the wind.” The actress’s mother, Daria Ekamasova, and the future star of the series “Olga” Yana Troyanova also starred in the film. It is noteworthy that the film was shot entirely in the Mari language.
The following year, Polina again had the chance to act with her mother - this time in Angela Guseva’s short film “Dreams. Sophia." In 2014, Aug appeared in small roles in the drama “Angels of the Revolution” based on real events and the comedy “Moms-3”, and also played the daughter of KGB counterintelligence captain Nikolai Karpenko (Evgeny Tsyganov) in the detective series “Where the Motherland Begins.”
2015 brought the young actress a small role in Andrei Proshkin’s acclaimed phantasmagoria “Orleans”. Polina played one of the girls who is taken to see him by the doctor Rudik (Oleg Yagodin), taking advantage of his official position. On the set, Aug was lucky enough to meet such famous Russian actors as Elena Lyadova, Viktor Sukhorukov, Vitaly Khaev.
Also in 2020, Polina starred in the social drama “Security” from director Alexander Proshkin, father of Andrei Proshkin. In addition, Aug played the main role in the short melodrama by Ekaterina Golubeva-Poldi “Smaragd”.
In May and June 2020, the actress appeared in episodic roles in the acclaimed films “Bolshoi” by Valery Todorovsky and “Loveless” by Andrei Zvyagintsev. Soon, at the Moscow International Film Festival, Andrei Troitsky presented his short social drama “Mira,” in which Polina played the main role. According to the results of the Green Apple Young Film Festival in November, this film received the “Best Drama” award.
On November 13, 2020, the Russia-1 TV channel hosted the debut screening of the series “Dr. Richter,” an adaptation of the popular American series “House M.D.” The main role in the medical epic was played by Alexey Serebryakov. Polina Aug, as well as Ekaterina Vilkova, Alexander Robak, Daria Ekamasova, Maria Shalaeva and Semyon Treskunov got minor roles - each of them appeared in one episode of the series.
On December 14, 2020, the Russian premiere of Margarita Mikhailova’s film “Hit” took place - a drama about two young girls who moved from the provinces to the capital with great hopes for a bright future. In addition to Polina, Sofia Ozerova, Alena Toymintseva, Pyotr Skvortsov and the actress’s mother, Yulia Aug, appeared in the film.
In mid-December 2017, the premiere of Olga Popova’s film “Girl with a Braid” also took place. Polina tried on a robe with a hood, playing Death, following one of the heroes of this New Year's comedy.
Julia Aug now
Today Yulia Aug is one of the most sought-after Russian actresses. The performer’s ability to embody different characters on screen was appreciated by many directors, which is why her filmography increases by at least 5 projects every year.
Julia Aug (still from the series “The Serf”)
In addition to filming the series “Embassy”, “Doctor Richter. Continuation”, “Nanny”, in 2020 Aug gets into the cast of the biographical drama “Summer” by Kirill Serebrennikov and the parable film “Russian Demon” by Gregory of Constantinople. The actress gets the main role in the comedy “Neighbors”. The plot of the series is built around a conflict situation that has developed in one village. Two married couples became participants in the quarrel. The story was played out on screen by Evgeny Sidikhin, Elena Valyushkina, Vladimir Timofeev and Yulia Aug.
At the beginning of 2020, Channel One started showing the detective drama “Fortune Teller,” starring Mikhail Porechenkov and Ekaterina Olkina. The film is about a young girl with the gift of foresight, who begins to cooperate with the investigative department. Julia Aug appeared in the film as the heroine Martha. Soon the artist appeared in her favorite image - the heroine of a costume melodrama. She played the role of the wife of the landowner Chervinsky (Stanislav Boklan) in the series “The Serf”.
Julia Aug (shot from the TV series “Fortune Teller”)
On the air of the “Evening Urgant” program, where the actress was invited to talk about her work on the new project “Fortune Teller,” Yulia said that in her youth she also once turned to an Estonian astrologer. Aug did not believe the vague prediction that big changes would soon occur in her life. But 2 years later she discovered that the Estonian was right.
Recently, Julia has been working on roles in the series “Doctor Preobrazhensky” about the first steps of Soviet plastic surgery, the historical drama “Sorge”, new parts of the comedy melodrama “Neighbors”, released a year earlier.
