Olga Kuzmina: biography, career, personal life, films

Biography

Olga Kuzmina was born and raised in the Russian capital. From an early age, the girl studied acrobatics and choreography. At the age of 11, Olya was accepted into the folk dance school-studio of Igor Moiseev, and a year later into the “School Years” ensemble. “We had a school with a creative twist: everyone danced or sang. I did acrobatics and dancing. The teachers were sympathetic to this, so they demanded little. Sometimes I was so tired that my mother read the books out loud from the program. Now I understand that thanks to physical activity, I developed character, willpower, self-organization and responsibility,” explains Kuzmina. From her youth, the girl did not face the question of choosing a future profession. After her first successful experience of filming in the TV magazine “Yeralash”, she wanted to be an actress. However, several attempts to enter theater universities ended unsuccessfully. Olga studied at the State Academy of Slavic Culture, correspondence department of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. Later she transferred to the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). The training took place in the workshop of Sergei Prokhanov. “Once the actor and director Sergei Prokhanov was recruiting actors for his film. Boris Grachevsky decided to help him and sent a bunch of guys, including me. I was approved for the role, and after that Prokhanov suggested: “Come to my course, you have potential.” I was already studying at another university and had no intention of transferring, but they persuaded me. That’s how I ended up at GITIS,” recalls the actress.

Olga Kuzmina's husband - Alexey

Olga Kuzmina’s husband, Alexey, whose last name is stubbornly not disclosed, has nothing to do with the world of theater and films.
He works as a full-time psychologist in a special police department, but never talks about his work at home. Alexey and Olga met a long time ago, when the future actress barely graduated from school and became a correspondence student at ASK. The girl says that he became her first boyfriend and only love.

Moreover, the marriage took place only in 2010; this event took place on the hot island of Bali. Olya did not want to wear a fluffy wedding dress; she put on a beautiful light cotton dress. This was very helpful, because the procedure itself took place on the beach. The guys decided to invite only a few of their closest friends and parents to the holiday.

Theater

Having received a diploma from a theater university, Olga Kuzmina began serving at the Luna Theater. Among her works on this stage: Margarita – “Old New Faust”, Snow Maiden – “Natural Extreme”, Muse – “Bullfight or Romance with a Sleepless Night”, Sybil Wayne – “Dorian Gray”, Verka – “Professional Instinct”.

The artist also collaborated with the Praktika Theater, where she appeared in the play “Vera Pavlova” directed by Eduard Boyakov. Poems about love".

Theater works

Diploma performances:

• "Ghoul. Dreams of an Ironic Man”, Dasha
• "Prosecutor's Parable", Vera

Moon Theater:

• "Old New Faust", Margarita
• “Natural Extreme”, Snegurochka
• “Bullfight or Romance with a sleepless night”, Muse
• "Dorian Gray", Sybil Wayne
• “Professional instinct”, Verka

Theater "Praktika":

• "Vera Pavlova. Poems about love"

Cinema

In 2006, Kuzmina played the role of Maya in one of the episodes of the sitcom “Happy Together”. Then she played small roles in “Lawyer-5”, in “The Adventures of Notary Neglintsev”, in “Soldiers”, in “Univer”. She also took part in such TV series as “Bachelorette Party”, “The Law of Reverse Magic”, “Beware, Children”, “First Attempt”, “Happy Together”, “Margosha”.

“At the institute, all my attention and energy were focused on learning. We rehearsed excerpts and prepared our graduation performance. But the closer graduation got, the more clearly I realized that it was time to declare myself. After all, the diploma says “theater and film actress.” I began to regularly go to Mosfilm, handed out my photographs, and registered with all acting agencies. Offers started coming in. I began to act often, albeit in small roles, but in this way I gained experience and became familiar with filmmaking,” says the actress. Olga first gained fame after her role as Lyuba in the serial film “Sleeping Area”. Then she played in such projects as: “Moscow. Three Stations”, “Waiting for Love”, “Hot on the Trail”, “Group of Happiness”, “Capital of Sin”, “Keys to Happiness. Continuation", "Made in the USSR" and many others.

"Siberia. Mon amyr"

Olga Kuzmina starred in the author’s film by Vyacheslav Ross “Siberia. Monamour", which was awarded a number of prestigious awards. Her heroine is Vera, the daughter of Uncle Yura. Plot: In the taiga, in an abandoned village, an old man lives with his seven-year-old grandson. They are waiting for the boy's father, who left a year ago. There is not a soul around, it takes a very long time to get to the nearest populated area, and wild dogs, ready to immediately pounce and tear them apart, do not allow them to go far from home.

The husband and wife are raising three daughters, and this is the only thing that still connects them.

Having survived two Caucasian wars, the captain is trying to find his place in peaceful life.

The destinies of these heroes are intertwined unexpectedly and dramatically... The artist’s partners on the set were: Pyotr Zaichenko, Mikhail Protsko, Nikolai Kozak, Sergei Puskepalis, Marianna Schultz, Sergei Novikov, Sergei Tsepov. Olga became a real star in the comedy series “Kitchen,” which was released in 2012. She created the image of the waitress Nastya, a vegetarian and animal defender.

“Kitchen” and “Hotel Eleon” greatly influenced my life. Many people even accidentally call me Nastya, but I’m already so used to this name that I respond and am not offended at all. Sometimes I think: is it my life that changes the plot of the series or vice versa? I became pregnant, and they decided to add this fact to the script. Many of the situations that my heroine finds herself in with her husband are so typical for family relationships that I just have to not repeat the mistakes of this couple. I am very grateful to fate for such a gift: an excellent role in a very successful project with wonderful partners,” admits Kuzmina. The artist speaks very respectfully of working with her colleague Dmitry Nagiyev: “If he saw that the work was not moving, he could make a harsh joke. But not in order to humiliate anyone, but so that no one relaxes. On the day when Nagiyev arrived at the site, it was necessary to film the maximum number of scenes with him. He had to film from morning to night, and there was no time to waste time. But working with Dmitry Vladimirovich is easy and interesting. He is a very generous partner, he does not pull the blanket on himself, he will always tell you how to solve a scene more interestingly, how best to say a phrase so that it is funny.

He is a subtle, sensitive person and a great professional, who cares about the overall result, and not narcissism.” During the same period, the actress was involved in the films: “Furtseva” - Anyuta Kuzmicheva, “Newlyweds” - Svetochka, “Without a Statute of Limitations” - Romanova Jr., “Karpov” - Masha, “True Love” - Anechka, “Gagarin. First in space" - Marina Popovich, "Wanted" - Nastya, "How I became Russian" - Nastya and others.

"Ghost"

Olga played the role of secretary Olenka in the mystical comedy “Ghost” directed by Sergei Selyanov. The film premiered on the Rossiya 1 TV channel in 2020. Plot: Just yesterday Yuri Gordeev, an ambitious aircraft designer and a favorite of women, was one step away from his triumph. His YUG-1 aircraft was supposed to be a real breakthrough in domestic aviation. But today no one sees or hears him, and his business competitor is freely closing his company. All because Yura crashed in a car accident and became a ghost.

Seventh-grader Vanya Kuznetsov has always been an empty place. A victim of his mother's overprotectiveness, an object of ridicule from his classmates, he is afraid to even talk to the girl with whom he has long been in love.

Yura has a week to finish his life's work and get the plane into the air. Vanya is the only one who sees him and can help him. Starring: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Semyon Treskunov, Yan Tsapnik, Anna Antonova, Ani Petrosyan, Sofya Raizman, Igor Ugolnikov, Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka, Alexey Lukin, Ruslan Sadkovsky. In 2016, the comedy “Classmates” with Olga Kuzmina in the title role was released. The actress played the girl Katya, who is going to get married. Ekaterina invites her former classmates to her bachelorette party. During the party, Katya finds out that the groom took a mistress a long time ago. She refuses the wedding, and her classmates decide to find a new groom in one night in order to save her friend’s personal life. Her friends on camera were Svetlana Khodchenkova and Ekaterina Vilkova. Kuzmina’s next works were: the melodrama “Mommies”, the short film “Alien Monastery”, the series “Hotel Eleon” and “Kitchen. The Last Battle", comedy "Grand".

"New Year's Express"

Olga received an invitation to the film “New Year's Express” directed by Dmitry Bulin, released in 2020. She was entrusted with the role of Masha. Who's on the train on New Year's Eve? Only incorrigible romantics - or... losers in their personal lives! But it was not for nothing that His Majesty Chance brought together different people with different destinies in one composition on December 31 - each of the passengers has his own plans for the coming year!

This melodrama stars: Olga Lerman, Evgeny Romantsov, Mikael Aramyan, Daria Rumyantseva, Alexander Makogon, Ivan Chuikov, Alexander Arsentiev.

Personal life

The artist is married. Her husband Alexey works as a senior psychologist in the riot police. They got married in 2010 and celebrated on the island of Bali. “We studied together at the Institute of Slavic Culture. I was 17, he was 20. He studied to become a psychologist, I studied to become a cultural scientist. My husband told me how for a long time he was afraid to approach me, because I was always and everywhere with my friend. And he thought: “I’ll come up, what if she thinks that it’s not to her, but to her friend?” But by that time I had already noticed him too. When we met at the institute, we exchanged glances. He plucked up courage and spoke to me on the trolleybus... We were poor students. This significantly shortened the romantic period: you can’t walk for a long time in the park holding your hand. The most we could afford was some kind of morning movie session. Pretty soon Alexey came to our house and stayed. That is, we almost immediately began to live together,” says Kuzmina. In the summer of 2013, the couple had a son, who, on the advice of his sister Olga, was named Gordey. Soon after giving birth, the artist returned to work in cinema and theater. In one of her interviews, she admits that family is the most precious thing in her life: “This is what makes life worth living. But you need to strive to find a balance, not to spit in the face of fate, which presents you with such gifts as your favorite profession, being in demand, and the love of the audience. After all, when you have this, you want to return home even more, to your family, where you are loved and expected.”

Son of Olga Kuzmina - Gordey Kuzmin

Olga Kuzmina’s son, Gordey Kuzmin, was born in 2013; his father was the actress’s husband, Alexey. The guy was present at the birth, as the labor process lasted eighteen hours. Olya said that she had a hard time with toxicosis during the filming of the TV series “Kitchen,” but the birth of her first child was incredibly difficult for her.

They wanted to name the baby Matvey, but Olga’s sister set the record straight; she said that a boy with a beautiful Russian name, Gordey, had been brought to her for training. It was unusual and at the same time close and somehow familiar.

Currently, Gordey attends a regular kindergarten, he goes in for swimming, but the woman is not going to bring him into the world of cinema. Olga says that her son and husband are best friends, they often travel, go to the dacha together, make and repair a car. The boy loves the beaches of Bulgaria, where his parents often take him.

Interview

“Talent, if you have it, will not be lost”

“You won’t understand it yourself. Someone from the outside, not close, should notice. Sometimes the stars align in such a way that even if you resist, they will bring you back to it. Talent, if there is one, will not be lost. We, actors, understand that only fifty percent of success depends on us: whether you are lucky or not, whether the road leads to something or whether you stay in place. Everything has its time! But water does not flow under a lying stone either. You still have to try, take a step, work on yourself. At one time, I constantly went to Mosfilm as if it were my home: I handed out photographs, looked for acting agencies. And it bore fruit! I just realized at some point: since I became an artist, I need to go everywhere and remind myself of myself.”

About fans

“Fans are different. Someone will come up and impudently say: “Let’s take a picture, or something!”, “Stand up normally!”, “Can’t you even take off your glasses?”, “Make your face simpler.” You feel like a giraffe in a zoo. Fortunately, there are others - well-mannered and pleasant people who will quietly approach and respectfully say a few kind words. I often hear: “Wow, you’re even cuter in real life than on the screen.” It is very nice. But the most popular reaction is, of course: “Oh, you’re so small, but we thought you were bigger.”

About hobby

“Hang out with friends. I first heard about this on the set of “Kitchen,” and tried it when my friend and I decided to combine our birthdays into one holiday. We were amazed! I recommend to everyone. Such a fun time! For example, you need to get out of a room in an hour, and to do this you need to solve a bunch of different riddles. Here natural instincts come into play: leadership qualities that no one had noticed before suddenly appear in a loved one. This is cool".

Filmography: Actress

• Front (2019)
• Seize the moment (2019)
• Idol (2019)
• For the first person you meet (2019)
• New Year's Express (2018)
• Grand (2018)
• Odnoklassniki: New twist (2017)
• Kitchen. The Last Battle (2017)
• Two Wives (2017)
• Hotel Eleon (2016-2017), TV series
• Alien Monastery (2016)
• Odnoklassniki (2016)
• Mommies (2016), TV series
• Ghost (2015)
• How I became Russian (2015)
• UGRO. Simple guys-5 (2014), TV series
• Kitchen in Paris (2014), TV series
• Wanted (2013)
• Pasechnik (2013), TV series
• Gagarin. First in Space (2013)
• Kitchen (2012-2015), TV series
• True Love (2012)
• Karpov (2012), TV series
• I'm going out to look for you-2 (2012), TV series
• No statute of limitations (2012)
• Newlyweds (2011-2012), TV series
• Furtseva (2011), TV series
• Porcelain Wedding (2011)
• Siberia. Monamour (2011)
• Made in USSR (2011)
• Reckoning (2011)
• Reflection (2011)
• The Man in Me (2011)
• The Best Summer of Our Lives (2011)
• Keys to happiness. Sequel (2011), TV series
• The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (2011), TV series
• Group of Happiness (2011), TV series
• Waiting for Love (2011), TV series
• Capital of Sin (2010)
• Hot on the heels (2010), TV series
• Moscow. Three stations (2010), TV series
• Garages (2010), TV series
• It's snowing in Russia (2010)
• Sleeping area (2009-2010), TV series
• Happy Together (2009), TV series
• Being Gena Bukin (2009)
• Suggested Circumstances (2009), TV series
• First attempt (2009), TV series
• Be careful, children! (2009)
• Law of Reverse Magic (2009)
• Bachelorette Party (2009)
• Galygin.ru (2009)
• I'm going out to look for you (2009)
• Univer (2008-2011)
• Margosha (2008-2010), TV series
• Soldiers-15. New call (2008), TV series
• The Adventures of Notary Neglintsev (2008), TV series
• Lawyer-5 (2008), TV series
• Theater of the Moon, or Space Fool (2007)
• Happy Together (2006), TV series

Star

After university, she became an actress at the Luna Theater and began acting first in very small roles in not the most popular films and TV series, then in auteur films. In particular, Kuzmina appeared in the critically acclaimed film “Siberia. Mon amyr".

Filming of the TV series “Kitchen”

Well, the series “Kitchen” and its continuation of sorts, “Hotel Eleon,” brought real fame to the actress. There Olga played the cheerful and positive Nastya, a convinced vegetarian who loves animals and fights for their rights. Her Nastya carefully monitors her figure and remains fragile and charming.