Actress Daria Ekamasova: “Thank God I didn’t become a police officer!”

Childhood and youth

Daria Nikolaevna Ekamasova is a Muscovite, the nationality of the actress periodically raises questions, although without clear theories. She was born into the family of a kindergarten manager and an engineer in May 1984. There was always music in the Yekamasovs' house. The head of the family played and sang in the group “99%” in the late 1970s.

At an early age, discovering musical abilities in their daughter, her parents took her to a music school, from which Daria Ekamasova graduated in piano. She did not stop there and decided to continue her musical education, so she entered the school. During her studies, the girl worked part-time as an assistant manager in one of the Moscow modeling agencies.

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Daria had a dream about cinema at the age of 5, after she saw the film “Guest from the Future.” In the early 2000s, Ekamasova accidentally appeared on the screen. It was an extra for the video “Dawn” by Valery Meladze. The girl enjoyed filming so much that she sent her photo to the Mosfilm studio.

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Personal life

The personal life of Daria Ekamasova is a closed topic. For a long time, the actress remained silent when asked about her husband and children, or spoke vaguely and abstractly to reporters about the criteria for choosing a life partner. She also did not share details of her personal life either on Instagram or other social networks. Daria was credited with many affairs, for example, with Ksenia Sobchak’s ex-husband Maxim Vitorgan, but she did not comment on such rumors.

In 2020, the actress finally declassified her relationship. Daria's husband is television producer Denis Freeman. In 2020, the couple became parents - their daughter was born at the Lenox Hill Clinic in New York.

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Artem Aksenenko, Agata Mutsenietse, Egor Koreshkov, Denis Freeman, Daria Ekamasova and Evgeniy Pronin
The actress does not have model parameters (Daria’s height is 170 cm and her weight is 60 kg), but she rightly considers this her advantage and is not shy about posing for photos in a swimsuit and open outfits.

Movies

In 2002, Daria Ekamasova received an offer from Mosfilm to participate in the casting. Director Andrei Proshkin was just recruiting the cast for his film “Spartak and Kalashnikov.” Dasha passed the audition and starred in this film in a small role - she played a homeless girl named Cicciolina.

Later, in the program “My Hero,” she, recalling her acting debut, told how difficult it was to cry in front of the camera for the first time. The director waited a long time for the young actress to get ready and tried to evoke tears with the help of sad stories, but to no avail. As a result, Daria burst into tears of shame, it was so awkward for her to make the entire film crew wait.

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After graduating from music school, Ekamasova became a 2nd year student at GITIS, where she studied in the workshop of Alexander Porokhovshchikov. At this time, she continues to act in episodic roles in the films “Games of Moths” and “A Soldier’s Decameron”, where Daria was again invited by Andrei Proshkin.

In her final years at GITIS, the young actress appears on screen in new projects. She starred in the films “Doctor Zhivago” and “Live and Remember,” as well as in Boris Khlebnikov’s film “Free Swimming.” All these films were warmly received by viewers and critics and opened the name of a new artist.

The creative biography of Daria Ekamasova began to quickly gain momentum. Soon she was invited to popular TV series, the most famous of which are “Moscow. Three Stations" and "Ballad of a Bomber". Dasha herself singles out one of all the roles she has played - the secretary in the comedy film “Figa.Ro” directed by Rano Kubaeva. In this project, Ekamasova met Ivan Okhlobystin, who made an indelible impression on her.

Real fame came to the artist in 2011. Ekamasova appeared on domestic screens in the title role of the film “Once Upon a Time There Was a Woman” directed by Andrei Smirnov. The actress played the role of a simple village woman, Varvara, who lived in Tambov during the era of revolutions and two wars (World War I and Civil War), extremely convincingly. The film adaptation of Leskov’s story of the same name brought the artist to the top of her popularity. For this work, Ekamasova was awarded the national White Elephant prize.

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In 2012, Daria appeared in the films “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari” and “Till Night Do Part.” In the same year, filming began on the film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...”, where Daria played Lisa Brichkina. Viewers remembered her work in the film “Legend No. 17,” where Ekamasova played the role of Tatyana, the sister of Soviet hockey player Valery Kharlamov.

In 2013, the premiere of the film “The Peddler” took place in Rotterdam, and in the summer of the same year, “May Tapes” by Valeria Gai Germanika with the participation of the actress was released on domestic screens. In 2015, viewers saw the melodramas “Ugly Love” and “Money,” where the actress played the main role, as well as the dramatic thriller “The Witch,” based on the story of the same name by Tamara Kryukova.

Also in 2015, the actress played the main role in the melodrama “Women in Love,” which shows the life and relationships of four childhood friends. The remaining roles in the series were played by Ekaterina Volkova, Ekaterina Klimova and Ravshana Kurkova.

Ekamasova not only films a lot, but also appears on stage. She made her theater debut in the role of Lyubov Mendeleeva in the production of “Captives in the Spirit” by Vladimir Ageev. For her work in the play “Life is a Good Thing,” the girl received the Golden Mask theater award.

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Daria Ekamasova is a member of two film academies - the Russian Niki and the Academy of the Asia-Pacific Region.

In 2020, the actress played a number of minor roles, in particular Daria Shmeleva, the wife of swimmer Alexander Popov in the sports drama “Champions. Faster. Higher. Stronger". The film consists of three independent, non-intersecting parts. These are stories about the lives of wrestler Alexander Karelin, gymnast Svetlana Khorkina and swimmer Alexander Popov, who are the main characters, each in their own part.

During the same period, Daria Ekamasova reincarnated as the pregnant bride Dunya in the surreal melodrama “From Five to Seven.” In this film, the role of a voodoo doll is played by a rubber woman, and the plot organically combines immersion in parallel worlds, a women's fight among Viennese chairs, a bank robbery, a wedding with an accordion player, premature birth and a shell-shocked tank driver with a talent for folk crafts.

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Daria Ekamasova and Ekaterina Guseva
In 2020, the actress plays the role of Lolita in the comedy “Graphomafia” about a group of graphomaniacs who become hired killers.

Another major role was the image of Nadezhda Krupskaya, the wife of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, in the drama “Demon of the Revolution.” The film tells about the socialist revolution and the events that preceded the change of power and system in the Russian Empire. The film begins in 1915, when the German government allocated money for the revolution in Russia.

In addition, in 2020, the actress appeared in three more films: in the tragicomedy “Doctor Richter,” the Russian adaptation of the popular medical series “House,” in the series “The Americans” and the film “Test.”

Notes

1. Daria Ekamasova: “The acting profession is like being in a whirlpool…” “Private Correspondent”, October 14, 2011
2. Time machine
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   About the film anthology “The Fourth Dimension” (unspecified)
   . Kinonote.ru. (March 22, 2012). Retrieved April 30, 2012. Archived September 15, 2012.
3. Actress Daria Ekamasova broke her leg on the set of the program “Without Insurance” (unspecified)
   . New news (February 10, 2016). Retrieved March 30, 2016.
4. The intelligentsia calls for the release of Pussy Riot (undefined)
   . Echo of Moscow (June 27, 2012).
5. More than a hundred cultural figures signed a letter in defense of Pussy Riot: from Bondarchuk to Khamatova (unspecified)
   . NEWSru.com (June 27, 2012).
6. Asia Pacific Screen Awards: Academy Members A – Z (undefined)
   . Retrieved December 30, 2012. Archived January 6, 2013.
7. Daria Ekamasova showed her beloved man (unspecified)
   . star-town.net. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
8. Daria Ekamasova hid her wedding for six months (Russian). 7Dney.ru (July 10, 2017). Retrieved January 19, 2020.
9. Unexpectedly: Daria Ekamasova became a mother for the first time and showed a selfie with a huge belly (Russian). www.wmj.ru. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
10. Theater.doc “Life is good”
11. National Theater Award "Golden Mask" - 2010
12. National Award of Film Critics and Film Press "White Elephant": Nominees and winners (1998-2011) (unspecified)
    (inaccessible link). Retrieved March 19, 2012. Archived April 3, 2011.
13. APSA is proud to announce the 2012 Official Nominations listed below: (unspecified)
    . Retrieved October 14, 2012. Archived October 27, 2012.
14. Winners of the Sixth Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards Announced (unspecified)
    (November 23, 2012). Retrieved November 20, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
15. Daria Ekamasova and Alexander Pal were recognized as the most talented. The actors became laureates of the special Chopard Talent Award as part of the MIFF 2016 (unspecified)
    . WomanHit.ru (June 30, 2016). Retrieved October 17, 2016.

A television

In 2012, the actress took part as a guest in the filming of the show “Polyglot,” dedicated to foreign languages. Together with Vladimir Epifantsev, Anastasia Vedenskaya and other colleagues, Daria tried to revive the meager information in the English school curriculum.

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In 2016, Ekamasova starred in the show “Without Insurance,” where she mastered and demonstrated to the audience breathtaking stunts under the circus big top. Despite hard work and fearlessness, the artist never reached the finals.

Daria Ekamasova now

In 2020, the actress received one of the main roles in the American comedy Give Me Liberty. The film was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received high marks from critics. The filming process was not easy for Daria: at that time she was 4 months pregnant. Director Kirill Mikhanovsky chose the crime-prone area of ​​Milwaukee as the main location; the film crew, along with the actors, suffered from lack of sleep and bad weather, but in the end Daria found the result of her work interesting and thanked her for the invitation to the project.

In June 2019, the television series “A. L.Zh.I.R.” - a television drama about the harsh life of a women's camp in Stalinist times, in which Ekamasova played with Ekaterina Guseva. The name stands for “Akmola camp for the wives of traitors to the Motherland.” Daria got the role of Olga Pavlova, the wife of the disgraced aircraft designer. Ekamasova took her work very seriously; before filming began, she read the memoirs of real Gulag prisoners and studied historical materials in museums. For the role, she also had to cut off her hair and dye her hair brunette.

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Also in 2019, Ekamasova took part in the 2nd season of the serial film “Occupied”. This is a Norwegian production with an international cast. The premiere of the new episodes took place on the Netflix streaming platform. In addition, Daria appeared in the military drama “Corridor of Immortality,” which began filming in 2020.

Now Ekamasova is busy mainly in projects of Russian directors. She is involved in the biopic “White Snow”, dedicated to the Soviet athlete Elena Vyalba. The premiere was planned for April 2020. Among the news from the artist is participation in a charity photo shoot for the “Step Together” foundation, which helps children with cerebral palsy.

Filmography

• 2002 — “Spartak and Kalashnikov”
• 2004 — “Games of Moths”
• 2008 — “Live and Remember”
• 2009 — “Fig.Ro”
• 2011 — “Once upon a time there was a woman”
• 2011 — “Moscow. Three stations"
• 2012 — “Heavenly wives of the meadow mari”
• 2013 — “Legend No. 17”
• 2014 — “Priest-san”
• 2014 — “Angels of the Revolution”
• 2014 — “Kuprin. Pit"
• 2014 — “The Seventh Rune”
• 2015 — “Ugly Love”
• 2015 — “The Witch”
• 2015 — “Heaven Knows”
• 2016 — “Champions. Faster. Higher. Stronger"
• 2017 — “Demon of the Revolution”
• 2019 - Give Me Liberty
• 2019 — “A. L.Zh.I.R.”
• 2019 — “Occupied”
• 2019 — “Corridor of Immortality”

Awards and nominations

• 2011 - National Award of Film Criticism and Film Press "White Elephant" - Best Leading Actress
  ("Once Upon a Time There Was a Woman")[12].
• 2012 - Nika Award - Best Actress
  (“Once upon a time there was a woman”).
• 2012 - Nomination for the Asia-Pacific Film Academy Award for Best Actress
  (“Once Upon a Time There Was a Woman”)[13]. Award - Special praise from the jury (High Commendation)[14].
• 2016 - Moscow International Film Festival - special Chopard Talent Award
  - to the most talented and promising young actress[15].