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Biography of Maria Andreeva

Maria Andreevna Andreeva is a talented young actress; She owes her all-Russian popularity primarily to the drama “Duhless”, in which she played the role of Julia, the friend of the main character. She also played in a series of detective stories about Major Cherkasov (“Spider”, “Executioner”, “Jackal”), as well as in the historical drama “Sofia”, where she appeared before the audience as Princess Sofia Paleologue.


Young and promising actress Maria Andreeva

Childhood

The future actress was born in the Ukrainian Kirovograd, but soon after the birth of her daughter, the family moved to Moscow. In the capital, Masha enjoyed attending children's theater performances. Very pious parents sent Maria to the Classical Gymnasium. Gregory of Neocessary. The class consisted of only girls who came to classes in school dresses with white collars, and after classes the students attended church and sang liturgies.

As a child, Maria Andreeva attended church school

Over time, the parents realized that their daughter was growing up in greenhouse conditions and could not establish relationships with others, so in the 6th grade the girl went to a regular city school. Maria had difficulty getting used to the new routine. English became one of her favorite subjects, and now the actress knows it at a conversational level. But she happily skipped other lessons, running away to various psychological trainings that her mother found for her.

Psychology and personality development fascinated Maria without a trace. At first she took the training herself, and soon began assisting the teacher. The coach of one of the courses advised the girl to try her hand at a theater institute, and Maria, trusting her favorite teacher, submitted documents to the Shchepkinsky Theater School. The talented girl passed the exams successfully the first time and in 2003 began her studies under the guidance of Yuri and Olga Solomin.

Still from the series “Sofia”

In 2006, student Andreeva received a role in the parable film “Love of an Uncharted Space” co-produced by Russia and the USA. In 2007, Maria successfully completed her studies. Her graduation works were the productions “Vanyushin’s Children” and “Pygmalion”. After receiving her diploma, Sazu Yuri Solomin offered her a place in the Maly Theater troupe.

Family and childhood of Egor Andreev

On May 11, 1969, a son, Yegor, was born into the family of actors Natalya Selezneva and Vladimir Andreev. Parents had to tour a lot, play and rehearse in the theater. Egor’s upbringing was largely the responsibility of his grandmother, Natalya Igorevna’s mother, who lived with them.

Egor Andreev in childhood and youth with his parents

As the actress herself says, she also walked in the yard with her son and “ran to school for parent-teacher meetings,” but not as often as she would like. However, Natalya was a good mother; her husband and son were above all else for her.

Sometimes Natalya Selezneva had to refuse directors' offers.

When she had already been approved for the role of Lyuska in the film “Running”, just before leaving for filming, little Yegor fell ill and had a fever. Selezneva refused the role.

Natalya Selezneva with her son Egor

According to the actors, they were lucky with their son. He grew up as a reasonable boy and never gave his parents any trouble. At school, Yegor studied “excellently” and graduated with a gold medal.

Actor career

In 2007, Maria Andreeva was involved in the play “The Power of Darkness”, and two years later she took part in the production of “Molière”. At the same time, the actress worked at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop theater, where she ended up after completing an internship course, becoming one of 18 actors who passed a competition of 700 people. At the "Workshop" she played in "The House Where Hearts Break", two years later - in "The Tale of the Ardennes Forest", the next year she was involved in the productions of "Alice Through the Looking Glass" and "Red".

At the presentation of the film “The Book of Masters”

Maria’s work in cinema began no less successfully. In 2007, she played the main role in the melodrama Nostalgia for the Future, followed by cameo roles in the films The Power of Darkness and Inheritance. The next main role was the work in the fairy tale “The Book of Masters”, where she worked together with Liya Akhedzhakova, Leonid Kuravlev, Artur Smolyaninov, Valentin Gaft. This film was followed by work in two parts of the series “Tower”.

Still from the film “The Book of Masters” (pictured with Maxim Loktionov)

In 2010, the actress decided to finally move to the “Workshop”. Under the direction of Pyotr Fomenko, Maria revealed her talent in the productions “The Gift” (2012) and “Olympia” (2014). The image of Katya Lavinskaya from Olympia is one of the actress’s favorite theater roles. Ekaterina Vasilyeva in the role of the main character’s mother became for Andreeva a model of interaction with the director. The actress also highly praised Evgeniy Tsyganov’s directorial debut. In her opinion, he is a patient, strict and generous director.

Maria Andreeva and Evgeny Tsyganov at the GQ Awards

Maria gained wide popularity and recognition from viewers after the release of the film “SpiritLess” in 2011, a film adaptation of Sergius Minaev’s bestseller about the lack of spirituality of the younger generation. She got the role of Julia, an activist of the Free Radicals group. From working with her partner on the set, Danila Kozlovsky, Maria had only pleasant impressions. According to the actress, Danila is an attentive, caring, amazing partner.

“Duhless”: Maria Andreeva and Danila Kozlovsky

Maria’s next main role was Beauty from the military drama “Fighters” (2013); no less successful was the image of Vasily Stalin’s second wife in the historical drama “Son of the Father of Nations” (2013) with Gela Meskhi in the title role.

Still from the movie "Fighters"

In 2014, the series “The Executioner” was released, in which Maria played the role of a journalist from the newspaper “Soviet Tribune”. A persistent girl tried to help the investigation into the case of the execution of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War. The role of journalist Oksana Demidova became cross-cutting: Andreeva also starred in other parts about the adventures of investigator Cherkasov: “Spider” (2015) and “Jackal” (2016). In 2014, Maria received the main role in the thriller “The Last Car. Spring”, and in 2020 she starred in the sequel to the acclaimed “Duhless” and the film “Fighters. Last Stand".

In the series "Executioner" Maria Andreeva played journalist Oksana

Career

In one of her first comments to the press, Nemchinova said that she sometimes works part-time in the modeling business, appearing in advertising and glossy magazines. After this, a wave of rumors arose about the participation of Russian women in pornographic films and photo shoots.

Photos and videos of Natalia Nemchinova caused a stir

In the wake of the excitement around Natalya, the British tabloid The Sun also scored points by publishing “career details” of Nemchinova. The publication reported that the heroine of the article allegedly opened her “strawberry” filmography in 2020, and even listed the pseudonyms that appear in the credits of the adult video with the girl’s participation. According to the author of the publication, Nemchinova acted under the names Danica, Delilah G, Amanda and others.

Among them was the English version of the name Natalya Andreeva, and therefore British reporters decided that it was Nemchinova who won the Miss Moscow competition in 2007.

Natalia Nemchinova

Natalya Andreeva was indeed recognized as the main beauty of the capital, but she has nothing to do with Nemchinova. At that time, the fan was 17 years old, and the winner of the beauty tournament, according to the organizers, was 23 years old.

In addition, 8 months before the beauty contest, the real Natalya Andreeva gave birth to a child, but Nemchinova has no children. Andreeva is also taller than Nemchinova, whose height is 168 cm, and the girl weighs 48 kg.

“Someone will probably be upset, but I have never worked in the porn industry. Everything that they write about me is not true,” Nemchinova told Moskovsky Komsomolets.

Natalya Nemchinova is the most beautiful fan.
The girl explained the erotic photos leaked to the Internet by a difficult break with her former lover. According to Natalya, the abandoned man, wanting revenge, posted candid photographs of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet back in 2013. It was not possible to completely remove them then, and now they have surfaced again.

According to Natalya, her official work is not related to either the porn industry or the modeling business. The girl is an employee of a fitness club in the capital.

Personal life of Maria Andreeva

Maria does not share details of her personal life with journalists. After filming “Dukhless,” she was credited with an affair with Danila Kozlovsky, but neither Maria nor Danila confirmed this information. Afterwards, her name was associated with Yevgeny Tsyganov, but this information turned out to be just rumors. The actress believes that the less known about her, the better it will be.

Danila and Maria are just colleagues and good friends

Despite the fact that Maria has lived in the capital since childhood, the girl does not consider it “her” city and therefore travels with pleasure to different countries. Due to Andreeva’s restless nature, she constantly finds herself in funny situations abroad, but successfully gets out of them. Actress Maria Andreeva: about what is most important for an actor Since the actress’s father was a captain’s mate, Maria loves the sea very much. The swallows, which were the first to meet the ship near their native shores, became a symbol of freedom for the actress. Tattoos on Andreeva’s back with their image can be seen in the footage of the film “Duhless”. In addition, Mary wears an om ring and rosary, given by her best friends.

In pauses between filming, the actress loves to draw and reread poems by her favorite poet, Joseph Brodsky.

Natalya Andreeva is the author of action-packed psychological novels and detective stories. Andreeva Natalya Vyacheslavovna was born on June 11, 1969 in the village of Porokhovo, Volokolamsk district, Moscow region. Father is a mechanic, mother is a primary school teacher. She graduated from Volokolamsk secondary school, after which she entered the Moscow Institute of Culture at the Faculty of Library Science and Bibliography. After the second year, she married a PHYSTECH student and gave birth to a son. Having received her diploma, she left for the city of Balashov, Saratov region, her husband’s homeland, where she worked for five years in a public library as a bibliographer. We lived in a rented apartment, my husband worked at a military plant as a process engineer. In Balashov, Natalya wrote her first literary article for a local newspaper and received her first fee for it. Since then, I wrote something all the time: small notes, texts for local radio, everything about the cultural life of the area. After her husband was laid off, she moved with him and her son to Moscow. In the capital, she continued to write notes for newspapers. She received her second fee in Moscow for the humorous story “A Train Ride.” Then for some time she worked as a customer service manager at a computer company. Again, we lived in a rented apartment, worked part-time where we could, and as best we could, and raised our son. In 1998, after the default, temporarily left without work, she began writing novels. Having seen an advertisement in the newspaper where aspiring authors were invited to collaborate, I took a risk and took the manuscript to the competition. The first novel was approved for publication. But the first book, A Room with a View of the Lights, was published by another publisher in 2000. Then they began to be published regularly, once a year, twice a year, three... In total, more than forty books were published by different publishing houses.

In 2007, films based on Natalia Andreeva’s novels were shown with great success on the Rossiya TV channel: “The Joke”, “Styx”, “Room with a View of the Lights”, “Nine Days Until Spring”. The first three of them took first place in television ratings. In recent years, 11 more Andreeva novels have been purchased for film adaptation.

AUTHOR'S BOOKS:

Room with a View of the Lights (2000) Nine Days to Spring (2000) Love and Death Are Always Together (2002) Season of the Wild Hunt (2003) The Falling Star Trap (2003) All Shades of Red (2003) Napoleon's Tomb (2004) Escort (2004) ) Black White (2004) Angle of Fall (2004) Styx (2004) Scripted Death (2004) Talk to Your Shadow (2004) Love and Death Live (2004) Love and the Irony of Fate (2004) Honeymoon Thunderstorms (2004) I was born a gardener... (2005) Joke (2005) Phobia (2005) Solo for pistol and orchestra (2005) Traffic jam (2005) On the eve of a solar eclipse (2005) Husband for an alibi (2005) Children of the White Goddess (2005) Tall blond on a white horse (2005) Age of Sagittarius (2006) Slave of the Lamp (2006) Oedipus the Prince (2006) The Islanders (2006) Ken (2006) Residence in Paradise (2006) By! (2006) Styx-2 (2007) The Queen's New Dress (2007) Nothing Personal (2007) The truth is in the wine. In Vino Veritas (2007) Excerpt (2007) Angard! (2007) Love and Death in a Crowd (2007) A Hundred Suns in a Drop of Light (2008) Try Calling Later (2008) 512 Kb Dollars (2008) Black Cat in a Dark Room (2008) Morning of the Night of Love (2009) Loser Gets Life (2009) ) Blizzard (2009) One pill is enough (2010) Lovers are mad. One Hundred Suns in a Drop of Light-2 (2010) Deceive Me Tenderly (2010) Three Steps to Heaven (2011) I Will Become You (2011) Lily of Fire (2011) Paradise for Death (2012) Ariadne's Thread (2012)

Maria Andreeva now

2016 turned out to be very successful for Andreeva in cinematic terms: she received the main role in the historical series “Sofia” and starred in the crime drama “Black Cat”. Judging by the enthusiastic reviews of television viewers, the role of Sophia Paleologue can become one of the main ones in the film career of Maria Andreeva.

Maria Andreeva as Sofia Paleolog

In 2020, the military drama “Julbars” will be released, where Maria played the role of a doctor at a service dog breeding school. Due to the rapid advance of the Germans, Maria's heroine was unable to evacuate. Border guards are trying to take her and her daughter out.

Still from the series “Black Cat”

Brief biography of Vladimir Andreev

Vladimir Alekseevich was born in Moscow in August 1930. His parents loved the theater, but did not themselves belong to the world of art. They supported the creative inclinations of their son, who from an early age studied in the theater studio at the House of Pioneers.

Vladimir Andreev in his youth

His childhood coincided with difficult war times, and after school he got up, like many of his peers, to the factory machine. After the war, Andreev entered GITIS, after graduating from which he came to the Theater. Ermolova, and played his first roles on his stage, and eighteen years later he became the main director of the troupe.

For some time, Andreev left his native team to direct the Maly Theater, but then he returned again and works there to this day.

Vladimir Andreev has roles not only in the theater - he starred in fifty films, was the director of many filmed performances, and to this day Vladimir Alekseevich continues to participate in the cultural life of the country.

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