Biography
Daria Ursulyak is no longer offended by the words that she got everything through connections. If you can’t explain to everyone that star relatives didn’t help in their profession, they won’t believe it. My father, knowing how nepotism is treated in art, warned that they would “devour him.” Dasha did not give up:
“Working with dad is worth 20 years of filming in the shit that is mostly shown on our television.”
The actress has the same critical attitude towards the concept of success - this word, Ursulyak believes, is used to describe something that is often downright bad.
Other projects
As a student at "Pike", Dasha made her debut at the Theater. Vakhtangov. Stage director R. Ovchinnikov approved her for the role of Mashenka in the play “Okaemov’s Days.” Daria Ursulyak coped with the task brilliantly. The photo of the girl then appeared on the poster for the first time.
In 2020, our heroine began collaborating with the Theater of Nations. Ursulyak (the youngest) received the main role in the production of “Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy.” The project manager was Grzegorz Jarzyna, who specially came from Poland. Dasha's character is a strange and silent girl, Yvonne. Overnight she becomes an object of intrigue among representatives of the royal family.
Childhood and youth
Daria Ursulyak's family is incredibly creative. Father Sergei Ursulyak is a director and producer who directed the TV series “Liquidation”, “Life and Fate” and “Quiet Don”, winner of the highest Russian film awards “Nika” and “Golden Eagle”. Mother Lika Nifontova is a hereditary actress, People's Artist of Russia. With such parents, the girl’s biography simply could not develop outside the stage and film set.
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Daria Ursulyak and her mother Lika Nifontova
Dasha grew up behind the scenes. At the age of 9, he made his debut in his father’s dramatic film called “Essay for Victory Day.” The girl was lucky enough to play on the same stage with venerable artists Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Mikhail Ulyanov and Oleg Efremov. Nevertheless, Ursulyak after school chose the Russian State University for the Humanities, where she studied at the Faculty of History and Philology.
At the age of 20, Daria realized that the decision was wrong, because she did not feel a sense of happiness and satisfaction from the profession. Then she entered the Shchukin Theater University, taking the course of Vladimir Ivanov.
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Alexandra Ursulyak, Sergey Ursulyak and Daria Ursulyak
According to Lika Nifontova:
“From the example of her mother, father, and sister, she saw what a difficult profession it was, but she could not help herself.”
Ursulyak herself jokes that there are no healthy people in the house:
“Everything is always very tense. There is always someone either releasing a play, or rehearsing, or simply permanently out of their depth. There is a certain degree of existence of our family, which is probably not very clear to the uninitiated, because it is very difficult to remain in such a state all the time.”
Family and childhood
In 1989 (April 2) Daria Ursulyak was born. The actress (photo above) is a native Muscovite. She comes from a creative and respected family. Our heroine's father does not need any special introduction. After all, this is a well-known director in Russia, Ursulyak Sergei. Did he make such series? like "Life and Fate" and "Liquidation". Her mother, Lika Nifontova, is a professional actress.
Dasha has an older half-sister, Alexandra (from her father’s marriage to Galina Nadirli). The girls have a wonderful relationship, see each other often, and provide each other with moral support.
Daria Ursulyak grew up as an active and inquisitive child. At school I was a good student and studied dance and music. Parents often took their daughter with them to work. Dasha liked to watch the artists rehearse.
Theater
In 2013, Daria Ursulyak made her debut on the stage of the Satyricon Theater, where she played one of the most romantic roles in the world repertoire - Juliet in Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (staged by Konstantin Raikin). In 2014, the premiere of Elena Butenko-Raikina’s play Game over (based on the play “Cruel Intentions”) took place, in which the actress played the role of Nelya.
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Daria Ursulyak in the play “The Man from the Restaurant”
During her student years, Daria appeared on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater in the image of Masha in the production of “Okaemov Days”. In 2015, she was involved in the plays “The One-Armed Man from Spokane”, “The Seagull” and “The Man from the Restaurant”, which were staged at the Satyricon.
At the Theater of Nations, the artist transforms into Yvonne in the project of the Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna “Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy.” In an interview, Daria told reporters that the casting for the role was completely unusual, and the director asked to play in a sketch format. According to her, Yvonne is a person from the tribe, a savage from an unfamiliar culture, who became the object of intrigue of the royal court, and in this image she was asked to “live” for a long time.
Career
Daria's debut on the theater stage was the role of Mashenka, the heroine of the play "Okay's Days", staged at the Vakhtangov Theater. But a student at the Shchukin Institute got a permanent job at her native Satyricon. Here, the aspiring actress also immediately got the main role, and one that many dream of all their lives: Shakespeare’s Juliet.
In a performance at the Satyricon Theater
In the following years, she played 4 more roles in the Konstantin Raikin Theater, and in 2020 she appeared on the stage of the Theater of Nations, again in the title role. She was offered to play Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy, in the play of the same name.
Immediately after graduation, Daria began to be invited to film roles. In 2014, she played 5 supporting roles, including starring in the musical film-play “Musaika” with other graduates of the Shchukin Institute. And in 2020, Quiet Don, directed by Sergei Ursulyak, was released.
Daria played Natalya Korshunova
The image of Natalya Korshunova (Melekhova), the legal but unloved wife of Grigory, is considered by many to be the most striking in the latest film adaptation of the epic. Although Natalya, in comparison with Aksinya, is a minor heroine, Daria managed to attract attention to her, win sympathy and sympathy. Viewers are surprised how the young actress managed to reveal the image of a loving and suffering woman so deeply, and believe that she was more convincing than the leading actors.
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Many people like Ursulyak’s Natalya even more than the image created by her great predecessor, Zinaida Kiriyenko.
Still from the film "Quiet Don"
After her starring role, Daria starred in the melodrama “House for Rent with All the Inconveniences,” which was released in the fall of 2020. In 2017, the premiere of the film “Safety,” shot back in 2014, took place. The actress herself returned to filming only in 2020, although she continued to play in the theater.
The break in the film actress’s work history was associated with a very important event in her personal life - Daria devoted herself to raising her daughter.
Young Daria. Still from the film “House for rent with all the inconveniences”
Movies
In parallel with the theater stage, Daria also appears on the set. The artist’s filmography is expanding slowly but surely. The supporting role in the series “Safety” based on the novels of Andrei Kivinov is one of the first in his career. Ursulyak starred with Nikita Vysotsky, Kirill Pletnev, Alexander Pashkov.
Daria Ursulyak (still from the series “Safety”)
Then the girl got the role of the daughter of the main character played by Andrei Smolyakov in the psychological drama “The Sinner”. In the detective film “Non Chance Meeting,” Dasha became the on-screen sister of Anna Chipovskaya. The artist participated sporadically in the drama “The Miracle Worker,” and the main characters were embodied by Fyodor Bondarchuk and Philip Yankovsky.
In November 2020, Ursulyak appeared on screen in the title role in the film “Quiet Don,” which was directed by her father. Daria played Natalya Korshunova, the wife of the main character of the film, Grigory Melekhov. This role was assigned to Evgeny Tkachuk, familiar to viewers from the series “The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik.” She got into the project by accident. When the auditions for “Quiet Flows the Don” were underway, the actress who was planned to be involved did not appear on the set. The director invited his daughter, who worked in a nearby pavilion.
Daria Ursulyak as Natalya Melekhova (still from the series “Quiet Don”)
Critics noted that Sergei Ursulyak wanted to show the life of the Don village, but instead the audience saw a “typical village.” Filming of the 3-part film lasted a year and 8 months. The actress played Natalya, trying to accurately convey the image, but at the same time wanted to emphasize the suffering that the heroine had to endure. This role became the main one in her career.
In an interview with journalists, Daria more than once noted that her father wanted fidelity, faith, forgiveness and love to become the main things in her life, and also accompany her during performances on stage. But on the set all this was of little help, and Sholokhov’s Natalya remained a mystery. According to Ursulyak, she is bored playing a “languid abandonment” who walks along the Don and sobs, because it is more interesting to show love and effective feelings.
Daria Ursulyak and Evgeny Tkachuk (still from the TV series “Quiet Don”)
Daria herself considers herself a theatrical person. Working on “Quiet Don” was like theater rehearsals. But theater is an art, and cinema must be fast, functional and technical.
In the spring of 2020, filming of the melodrama “House for Rent with All Inconveniences” was completed. The film adaptation of Masha Traub’s story was included in the program of the Moscow Film Festival, opened the competitive screening of “The Golden Phoenix” and closed the 27th “Kinotavr”. According to the plot, the heroines Svetlana Khodchenkova, Victoria Isakova and Irina Pegova were deceived by a cunning realtor who settled everyone under one roof. Ursulyak appeared in the minor role of the wife of Vladimir Vdovichenkov’s character.
The girl faced a difficult acting task in the detective story “Gurzuf”. Daria was required to embody 4 characters at once, since together with Pavel Chinarev she played a former artist involved in robberies. The criminals “stole cash registers” in stores and evaded capture for a long time by dressing up, changing their voices, and other tricky tricks. The film was directed by Dmitry Konstantinov, co-author of “The Thaw,” “Simple Truths” and “Family Secrets.”
Daria Ursulyak as Ksenia (still from the series “Godunov”)
At the end of 2018, the premiere of the historical drama “Godunov” with Sergei Bezrukov in the title role took place. Daria Ursulyak played the daughter of the first elected Russian Tsar, Svetlana Khodchenkova became the on-screen mother.
“Ksenia is a persistent girl: she accepts her fate, but does not resign herself, does not lose her dignity and does not forget for a second that she is a royal daughter. In general, she turns out to be a strong young lady. At the same time, she is also a symbol of faith, as if in opposition to confusion and turmoil,” this is how the actress talked about her character.
Biography and personal life
Daria Ursulyak belongs to the young generation of artists of modern Russian theater and cinema and, despite her youth, took part in several sensational and popular projects.
Dasha was born in Moscow into a family directly related to the world of art. Her mother is the famous actress Lika Nifontova, and her father is film director Sergei Ursulyak.
The girl’s favorite toys were things from her mother’s cosmetic bag, which Dasha could spend hours sorting through. The girl's childhood was spent behind the scenes and on film sets, where her parents took her with them. Dasha watched how Oleg Efremov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov got used to the characters, but she herself did not think about an acting career.
She was always an independent child, to whom her parents gave a lot of freedom. Without the knowledge of her relatives, the girl even changed schools, choosing a lyceum with a humanitarian profile.
Having received a certificate of secondary education, Daria did not try her hand at competitive selections for Moscow theater schools, but took the documents to the admissions committee of the Russian State Humanitarian University . School knowledge was enough for Daria Ursulyak to become a student at the Faculty of Foreign Languages.
However, Daria never received a diploma from this university - from course to course, the girl accumulated the feeling that she had made the wrong choice.
Ursulyak did not feel excited about her studies, and did not see herself in her future profession. Having collected the documents, Daria, secretly from her parents, went to Shchukinka. Having overcome competitive tests, she became a student at this theater school. The course in which Ursulyak studied was “supervised” by Vladimir Ivanov.
The young actress first appeared on the big theater stage in 2013; her successful debut in the role of Juliet at the Satyricon Theater took place in one of Shakespeare's main plays . After graduating from college, Daria Ursulyak became one of the permanent artists of this capital’s theater and delights audiences with her skill in performances:
- "Game over";
- "Don Juan";
- "Gull";
- "The One-Armed Man from Spokane";
- "The Man from the Restaurant"
At the Theater of Nations, the actress is involved in the production of “Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy.” In addition to participating in theatrical productions, the young actress also tries her hand at cinema.
Since 2014, Daria Ursulyak can be seen in diverse images: Vera in the crime series “Security”, based on the work of writer Andrei Kivinov and telling about the life and work of employees of one of the closed units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Yulia Nikitina in the drama “Sinner”, the plot of which unfolds around the life of Vlad, who lost his mother in infancy, and has suspected his father of her death for more than twenty years.
Daria played Lisa in the crime film “Non Chance Meeting,” which tells the story of the life of Sergei Lezhnev (Vladimir Yaglych), an inconspicuous nurse in the ambulance brigade, a former employee of the French Legion, with the abilities of an investigator.
She played in the drama “The Miracle Worker,” the plot of which introduces viewers to the confrontation between two psychics who once worked in the same special laboratory, but became blood enemies in real life. What femme fatale came between Nikolai Arbenin (Philip Yankovsky) and Viktor Stavitsky (Fedor Bondarchuk)?
Despite the fact that all the listed characters turned out to be far from the main ones, Daria Ursulyak convincingly proved her skills. Fame and recognition came to the young actress after the release of the series “Quiet Flows the Don ,” which was created by Daria’s father, Sergei Ursulyak.
In the newest film adaptation of Mikhail Sholokhov's work, the actress played the role of Natalya Korshunova, the unloved wife of the Cossack Grigory Melekhov.
Since 2020, Daria Ursulyak can be seen in the role of Natalya in the comedy melodrama “House for Rent with All the Inconveniences.” In May 2018, Channel One launched the premiere of the crime series Gurzuf, in which Daria Ursulyak plays Regina Morozova.
The actress does not want to talk about her personal life and matters of the heart. The media have repeatedly reported that Daria Ursulyak is married, but the artist prefers not to give the name of her husband. Journalists, however, managed to find out that Daria’s chosen one is actor Konstantin Beloshapka.
They met in 2011, and since 2020 they have been officially married. It is known that only the closest people were present at their wedding. In 2020, the actress became a mother, giving birth to a daughter, Ulyana. In one of the interviews, Ursulyak made a reservation that there were different moments in her relationship with Konstantin, and that both were smart enough not to slam the door when misunderstandings arose in the family.
Daria returned to the set immediately after the birth of her child , and when her daughter was one year old, she began taking her with her to filming. While the actress is busy filming, a nanny is looking after the baby. Daria jokingly calls herself a “crazy mom.” Meanwhile, Konstantin is organizing his life.
Daria Ursulyak claims that work for her is the most important thing in life. The actress often shares her work moments with fans of her work, posting photos from film sets and theater scenes on social networks.
Personal life
In her personal life, Daria Ursulyak is happy with her colleague, actor Konstantin Beloshapka, star of “Hotel Eleon”. The young people met in 2011 and got married in 2015. A year later, a daughter, Ulyana, was born, whom Kostya calls Kley, because after the birth of the baby, the couple almost divorced, and the children in some cases cement the marriage. Dasha, by her own admission, is a person with a complex character, hot-tempered and even aggressive. The husband is the complete opposite, “calm as a boa constrictor.”
Daria Ursulyak and her husband Konstantin Beloshapka / Amurskaya Pravda
Daria is on friendly terms with her half-sister Alexandra Ursulyak; she calls Sasha a close soul mate and, moreover, a tough but fair critic and viewer. And you can listen to the opinion of the owner of such talent and professionalism.
Users of the World Wide Web will have to work hard to find personal photographs of the actress, for example, in a swimsuit. Ursulyak deleted her accounts on Instagram and other social networks. Information should be filtered, Dasha is sure, and she compared regular publications to “Augean stables”, on which a lot of time is spent. It is better to spend your free minutes reading, spa, sports or thinking about useful things.
Life outside filming
The personal life of Daria Ursulyak interests almost all of her fans. However, the actress is in no hurry to share this information. Dasha is a charming girl. She is always the center of male attention. But fleeting romances are not for her. The actress always strived only for a serious relationship.
Daria Ursulyak is married. Her chosen one is actor Konstantin Beloshapka. Daughter Ulyana is growing up in a creative family. It is also worth noting that Daria has a half-sister, Alexandra.
Daria Ursulyak now
In the spring of 2020, the Rossiya channel released the film “Godunov. Continuation”, the second part of the history of the struggle for power in the Time of Troubles. Daria Ursulyak returned to the image of Ksenia, Evgeny Tkachuk starred in the role of a new character in the political arena of Rus' - the impostor Grigory Otrepyev.
Now the actress is busy in Valery Todorovsky’s production project – the drama series “Children”. She is accompanied by Evgenia Brik, Oleg Yagodin, Kirill Safonov. From the vague summaries in the media, it is still difficult to judge what the film will be about.
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Daria Ursulyak
Little more is known about the war film “Ilyinsky Frontier”, in which Ursulyak, like Ekaterina Rednikova and Lyubov Konstantinova, will play the main female role. The film is dedicated to the feat of the cadets of Moscow military schools who defended the approaches to the capital in the fall of 1941.
Daria Ursulyak, as well as Sergei Garmash, Svetlana Nemolyaeva and Alexander Lazarev Jr. expanded the cast of the detective story “Formula for Revenge”. This is the 6th part of the stories about detective Ivan Cherkasov, who investigated crimes in Mosgaz, Spider, and Operation Satan. This time Andrei Smolyakov and Marina Alexandrova are fighting drug dealers.
Another war film, “Soldier”, became one of the main May premieres of 2020. In this drama, Ursulyak played one of the main roles.
First acquaintance with cinema
Daria grew up among actors, directors and screenwriters, so from childhood she was surrounded by the magic of cinema. She spent a lot of time behind the scenes, where she repeated the movements and facial expressions of the actors. At the age of 9, she got a small role in Sergei Ursulyak’s film “Essay for Victory Day,” which tells about the exploits of Soviet soldiers. The film stars such famous actors as Efremov, Tikhonov and Ulyanov.
Education
Daria, although she grew up in a creative family, did not want to engage in acting. After graduating from school, she entered the Faculty of History and Philology in Moscow. However, having become disillusioned with the profession, I decided to try myself at something new. And since everyone in her family was involved in cinema and theater, in 2010 the girl entered the theater institute. Its artistic director was Honored Artist of Russia V.V. Ivanov. While studying at the institute, she played in major theatrical productions. For example, the actress played the role of Mashenka in the play “Okayomov’s Days”.
