Ekaterina Vilkova, biography, news, photos

Biography

Ekaterina Vilkova was born into a simple, working-class family. Parents worked at the factory. The girl went in for sports from an early age. Having devoted eleven years to rhythmic gymnastics and becoming a candidate for master of sports, Katya switched to stage activities.

Even as a teenager, she began attending acting classes in Bogomazov’s workshop, which worked at one of the schools in Nizhny Novgorod. While studying, she played Ophelia on the stage of the local drama theater. Having graduated from college with honors, Vilkova decided not to stop there and set off to conquer Moscow.

Ekaterina recalls: “Since childhood, I loved to bring people a good mood, I liked to laugh, I wanted people around me to smile. She was in the center of bright events, often hooligan... When something happened and a “debriefing” took place, she always boldly came forward and was the first to confess. This is how the desire to become an actress appeared. I went from my Nizhny Novgorod to enroll in Moscow, applied to all theater universities and began to try. Then I found out that the second-year directors of the Moscow Art Theater School, Zolotovitsky and Zemtsov, would be able to watch me. I came, read and was enrolled.”

VILKOVAEkaterina Nikolaevna

Ekaterina Vilkova is a famous actress of Russian cinema and theater. She gained popularity after participating in the vibrant musical “Hipsters,” the romantic comedies “Hotel Eleon” and “Exchange Wedding” and the television series “Palm Sunday.” The public fell in love with the actress thanks to her acting charm and bright appearance. From year to year, several films with her participation are released on the screens, and, as a rule, all these films are very warmly received by the public.

Childhood and adolescence of Ekaterina Vilkova

Vilkova Ekaterina was born in the village of Nizhny Novgorod in the summer of 1984 into a working family. The father of the future celebrity of Russian cinema worked as an electrician, and his mother worked as a watchman. The girl’s family, like all ordinary Soviet people of that time, suffered from shortages, so the girl was forced to wear her brother’s clothes. Nevertheless, little Catherine still grew up as a very cheerful, cheerful girl who dreamed of a beautiful future, discussing all her plans with her friends.

Parents sent Ekaterina Vilkova to rhythmic gymnastics quite early. In this sport, the future television star made great progress, receiving the title of candidate master of sports. However, her sports career still did not work out.

While relaxing at a summer camp, a student from a general education institution enrolled in a local drama club and began to get very seriously interested in theater. A passion for the big stage led the young artist to the fact that after receiving a school certificate, Vilkova without hesitation submitted documents to the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School named after Evstigneev and was enrolled in the acting department on the first try. The future artist’s mentor was Vasily Bogomazov, who at one time was a student of the legendary teacher Georgy Tovstonogov.

While studying at Evstegneevka, the talented student was already actively playing on the stage of the drama theater. Vilkova's theatrical biography began at the age of 17, a year before coming of age.

The actress received her diploma in 2003. Then the young girl decided not to stop at the achieved results and went to Moscow. Ekaterina submitted documents to all theater universities in the capital, three of which she completed the competition program. Vilkova, having considered the current situation, decided to choose the Moscow Art Theater School, where she was immediately enrolled in the second year. The actress’s graduation production was the play “Don’t Part With Your Loved Ones,” where Volkova received the main role. Despite the enormous success of the play, the artist still decided to connect her career with cinema.

Films with Ekaterina Vilkova

Ekaterina Vilkova’s film debut took place while still studying at the university. In 2005, the future star of Russian cinema successfully passed the qualifying round and received the role of Sophia Golitsyna in the historical television series “Satisfaction”, where she took part in filming together with such stars of Russian cinema as Marat Bashirov, Viktor Sukhorukov and Alexander Domogarov. Such collaboration inspired the artist, and immediately after receiving her diploma, she began auditioning for leading roles.

The perseverance and perseverance of the aspiring actress did the trick. In the five years after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater, Ekaterina Klimova took part in 15 films. At the same time, all the roles were diverse, but the actress managed to reveal them to the fullest, and the artist herself showed the public the versatility of her own acting talent. Thus, the actress took part in such films as “The One Who Turns Out the Lights,” “Hipsters,” “Black Lightning,” “Golden Eagle,” etc.

In 2010, the actress starred mainly in comedy films. Vilkova played the main roles in the comedy melodramatic film “Female” and the humorous film “Supermanager, or the Hoe of Fate.” Ekaterina Vilkova also starred in the New Year’s project “Christmas Trees”. The comedic role attracted a huge number of offers, so from that moment on the actress began to take part in filming processes, mainly in films of the entertainment genre. The creators of television series began to invite the artist to filming very often.

Of the actress’s latest works, viewers note the role of Shurochka in the television series “Kuprin”, where Ekaterina Vilkova played together with Mikhail Porechenkov. Catherine’s filming schedule is planned literally years in advance; the creators of a huge number of films want to see this particular actress in their works.

Personal life of Ekaterina Vilkova

Ekaterina Vilkova is in an official relationship with her colleague. Ilya Lyubimov and Ekaterina Vilkova met at a gas station. A romantic relationship broke out between the actors almost immediately, which soon ended in an official marriage. In 2011, the public learned that Ekaterina and Ilya got married. During the wedding celebration, during the ransom of the bride, the groom was forced to climb to the fourth floor of his beloved’s house.

Ilya Lyubimov, the actress’s husband, is Orthodox and honors all traditions, so the couple did not limit themselves to getting married in the registry office, but also entered into a relationship before God.

Ekaterina Vilkova and Ilya Lyubimov are raising two heirs: a daughter, whom the happy parents named Pavla, after a character in the television series Palm Sunday, and a son named Peter. Rumors regularly appear in the media that parents chose names for their heirs according to the calendar. The spouses very often communicate with journalists, so the personal lives of the actors are under close attention of the press.

Ekaterina is incredibly glad that she met just such a man as Ilya. She does not hide the fact that her husband has completely limited the artist from household chores, so she has more time to relax. At the same time, the actress tries to spend all her free time with her husband and heirs. When the artist works, a nanny looks after the children, and the housekeeper is responsible for the cleanliness and comfort of the house. As Ekaterina Vilkova herself says, she is not at all alien to household chores, she just sometimes doesn’t have enough time for it.

On the Internet, people are constantly discussing the personality of the actress, her photographs, family, etc., claiming that Catherine has recently lost too much weight. Many users of social networks know that it is work that greatly influences the life of Ekaterina Vilkova, since she has practically no free time due to constant filming processes.

It is interesting that Taisiya Vilkova, another very popular representative of Russian cinema, is considered Catherine’s sister. Be that as it may, contrary to all stereotypes, Ekaterina Vilkova and Taisiya Vilkova are not sisters. The artists are simply namesakes, and there are no family ties between them.

Ekaterina Vilkova currently

In 2020, the comedy multi-part project “Hotel Eleon”, a spin-off of the humorous film “Kitchen,” was released on television screens. The film tells about dramatic and comic situations within the restaurant and hotel teams. In this film, Ekaterina Vilkova showed herself brilliantly, playing the role of Sofia Yanovna. The public and critics believe that this picture was the best in the actress’s career.

In 2020, Ekaterina Vilkova revealed some secrets of her personal life during a conversation with representatives of the media. The actress then noted that everything in her family is not as smooth as we would like.

According to Ekaterina, she has a complete idyll with her husband only at home, but on the set, when a married couple needs to play together as part of a specific project, the actress cannot relax and feels uncomfortable.

“It’s so good that in Hotel Eleon Ilya got the role only in the first season of the project. As a result, we did not meet each other on the site. I should feel like a queen, and this is only possible when I work alone, without a spouse. In general, it’s not very easy for me to play together with Ilya,” the artist shared.

2017 was also an equally successful continuation in the actress’s career. In February of the same year, a new project, “Classmates: A New Turn,” appeared on television screens, in which Ekaterina Vilkova played the main role of Svetlana. In October of the same year, the actress took part in the filming of the television project “The Last Hero”.

Cinema

During her studies, Ekaterina made her screen debut with the role of Sofia Golitsyna in the historical adventure drama directed by Mikhail Shevchuk “Satisfaction”.

As the young actress admitted, she felt insecure while filming: “My first filming was a historical film. I was terribly afraid and did not understand anything at all what to do. Thank God, I came across a wonderful director, Mikhail Shevchuk: he was the one who figured out where to hide my hands in every scene. A scarf, a shawl, a scarf - it doesn’t matter, as long as your hands don’t dangle idle...

I wore corsets there, and, as I was told, one of them was worn by Julia Ormond in The Barber of Siberia.

In 2007, Vilkova played a prisoner nicknamed Pump in Ilya Shilovsky’s thriller film “You Can’t Catch Us.” The actress received her first award - the award for Best Actress at the Spirit of Fire festival in Khanty-Mansiysk.

A real test of professionalism for any actor is participation in film adaptations of classics. And here Catherine rose to the occasion, playing Dasha in the film “Demons” based on the novel of the same name by Dostoevsky and Fenechka based on Turgenev’s work “Fathers and Sons”.

The actress's role as Betsy in Valery Todorovsky's musical film "Hipsters" brought widespread fame to the actress. Although her heroine does not utter a single word throughout the entire film, but only sings and dances. Due to a break in the production of this film, in order not to dismiss the actors, the director took almost the entire main cast of "Hipsters" in his other project - "Vise", where Vilkova played the girlfriend of a drug addict Masha.

After the release of Todorovsky’s acclaimed musical and youth drama, the demand for the young artist increased sharply. In 2009, Ekaterina Vilkova played the superhero's lover Nastya in the science-fiction film Black Lightning, which was nominated for the MTV Awards and the Golden Eagle.

The 8-episode drama “Palm Sunday” was a great success among viewers. The actress played the role of journalist Pavla Kochetkova, who decided to avenge her mother, a once rising ballet star, whose fate was ruined many years ago by the son of an influential man.

Next, Ekaterina appeared in the top-rated New Year’s anthology “Yolki” (saleswoman Alina), played theater student Marina in the comedy melodrama “My Favorite Goofball,” and Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya in the historical and biographical film “Dostoevsky.” And in the funny comedy “On the Hook!” its heroine was children's figure skating coach Rita Nechaeva, who was abandoned by her fiancé, and in revenge she decided to get the oligarch.

In 2011, several films with the participation of Ekaterina Vilkova were released: the serial biographical film Furtseva (Furtseva’s daughter Svetlana), the comedy Supermanager, or the Hoe of Fate (Nastya), the romantic comedy Exchange Wedding (top model Sonya Olkhovskaya), crime drama “PiraMMMida” (Vera), comedy “What else do men talk about” (oligarch’s friend Angela Viktorovna).

The actress is also remembered for her role as a caring mother and talented teacher Anya Nemchinova in the melodrama “I Believe”, and the chief technologist of the chocolate factory Marina in the comedy “One, Two! I love you!”, the brilliantly embodied image of the squadron commander Lydia Litovchenko in the military drama “Fighters”, Katya in the film “Fallen Sky”, Milady in “The Three Musketeers”, the coach of the women’s snowboard team in the film “Only Girls in Sports”, Polina Serebryakova in the detective story “Kill Stalin”, Senior Sergeant Kiryanova in the remake of the popular war film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...”, Sveta in the comedy “Odnoklassniki”, which tells about the adventures of three friends who went to Sochi for a bachelorette party.

Ekaterina gained enormous popularity from the series “Hotel Eleon” (a spin-off of the sitcom “Kitchen”), where she played one of the main roles. Her heroine Sofia Yanovna, the hotel manager, is an imperious girl who is used to working according to Western standards, she wants to turn Eleon into an exemplary establishment.

"Doctor Richter"

In 2020, the long-awaited premiere of the film “Dr. Richter”, an adaptation of the cult American series “Dr. House,” will take place on the Rossiya TV channel.

The action takes place in city clinical hospital No. 100. The head of the diagnostic and treatment department, Andrei Aleksandrovich Richter (Alexey Serebryakov), together with his team, investigates complex medical cases that other doctors could not cope with.

In the film, Ekaterina Vilkova got one of the leading roles. Along with Alexey Serebryakov, her ensemble consisted of: Anna Mikhalkova, Vitaly Khaev, Polina Chernyshova, Pavel Chinarev, Dmitry Endaltsev, Maria Mironova, Mikhail Porechenkov, Alexander Galibin and other popular artists.

In total, the actress’s filmography includes more than fifty diverse works.

Vilkova Ekaterina

Ekaterina Nikolaevna Vilkova is a Russian theater and film actress.

She was born into a working-class family on July 11, 1984 in Nizhny Novgorod. There is an older brother. Since childhood, the girl has been involved in rhythmic gymnastics. And later she even received the title of candidate master of sports. But sports still faded into the background.

At summer camp, the girl started going to a theater club and from that moment her life changed. She loved the stage and theater very much. After graduating from school, Ekaterina went to study at the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School. Evstigneeva. Then the actress began to make progress at the Nizhny Novgorod Drama Theater. In 2003, she successfully graduated from the acting department.

Having gone to Moscow, the actress entered the Moscow Art Theater School. Success in theatrical productions did not bring her much joy and Catherine wanted something more. Therefore, after graduating from a higher educational institution, Vilkova decided to try herself in cinema.

Ekaterina made her film debut while still a student. In 2005, she received the role of Sofia Golitsyna in the series “Satisfaction.” Later, she starred in many films that opened the young actress as a professional for many directors: “The One Who Turns Out the Lights,” “Hipsters,” “Black Lightning,” “Female,” “Christmas Trees,” etc.

All photos: still from the film

In 2011, the actress had a successful breakthrough. Several projects came out at once that became successful for Ekaterina: “What Men Talk About,” “PiraMMMida,” “Exchange Wedding,” “Furtseva,” “Supermanager or the Hoe of Fate.”

The actress herself carefully chooses scripts and roles. She never plays in sex scenes, and also tries not to transform into the heroines she has already played. Ekaterina is in demand in her profession and every year she is presented with several successful projects. At her age, she has already played in more than 60 films. Directors want to work with her, and viewers are eager to see their favorite actress on the screens.

One of the successful and extraordinary works was the image of Ksenia Baskakova, where the actress played in the TV series “Hotel “Russia”. Many realized that Catherine could play more serious roles, since most often before she could be seen in comedy projects.

In 2020, the actress reincarnated as hotel manager Sofia Yanovna. Film critics called this role the best in Vilkova’s career. And in 2017, the actress appeared in the film “Classmates: A New Turn,” where she plays the role of Sveta, a loving mother and wife, but who so wants to break away from the routine and go to the wedding of her beloved friend. But unforgettable adventures await all four girls there...

The actress is working hard on new projects that will be released in 2020: “Moms of Champions,” “Cold Shores,” “Black Sea.”

Catherine’s personal life is also developing successfully. She has been happily married to actor Ilya Lyubimov for 8 years. They got married in 2011 according to all the canons and traditions, and also got married. It is known that the actress’s husband is a very religious person. Now the couple are raising two children: daughter Pavel and son Peter.

The actress loves to share personal and creative photos on the social network Instagram. Despite the fact that Ekaterina spends all her free time with her family, she also devotes a lot of time to work and they say that even because of this she has lost a lot of weight, since she simply does not have time and energy left for herself.

Full biography can be read on Wikipedia.

Projects

In addition to actively participating in the filming of films and TV series, Ekaterina Vilkova appears in video clips and appears in television programs.

In the 2010-2011 season, she participated in the Channel One project “Ice and Fire,” where her partner was Maxim Shabalin.

The artist also took part in such popular shows and programs as: “Big Difference”, “ProjectorParisHilton”, “Comedy Club”. In 2010, she starred in Alexander Lominsky’s video for the song “You knew,” and in 2012, in Dan Balan’s video for the song “Love.”

Filmography: films starring FI

He made his debut in cinema in 2005 in the film “Satisfaction”, and then the filmography quickly expanded with works in the films and TV series “Fathers and Sons”, “Vise”, “Palm Sunday”, “Hipsters”, “The Book of Masters”, “Black Lightning” , “Furtseva”, “Hotel “Eleon”, “The Last Hero”, “Classmates”. At the same time, four films have been released or are about to be released this year, including “White Shaman” and “Poor Girl.”

Katya considers “Hotel “Russia” (TV series) to be one of the main works in her work, in which she played the role of Ksenia Baskakova. This young girl got caught up in the whirlpool of events associated with the life of a prestigious Soviet hotel, became pregnant by a Nicaraguan citizen and was able to get out of this situation with honor.

In 2010, she tried her hand at the “Ice and Fire” project, and also starred in videos for young artists. Katerina Vilkova's personal life was incredibly stormy, since the beautiful and bright actress often fell in love and was never a nun. Katenka’s first love was Anton Belov, who was a couple of years older than her and studied at the same university, but in the puppet department. They first met at the entrance exams, but Anton didn’t pay attention to the ugly duckling, since Katya didn’t even have breasts.

However, in her second year, Katyusha blossomed, so the first handsome men began to pay attention to her. At this time, Denis Frolov fell in love with a beauty with size four breasts, who behaved imperiously towards her, forbidding her from acting in certain films and wearing open dresses. When Vilkova moved to the Moscow Art Theater following Denis, her feelings had already cooled down.

After this, Catherine’s new passion became the young and handsome womanizer Petya Kislov, but their romance lasted three months. Director and screenwriter Mikhail Shevchuk was twenty years older and terribly jealous, so he appeared in the beauty’s life in 2005 and in the same year and stopped due to the fact that the girl became famous.

Katya’s relationship with Dmitry Lipskerov, who was not only a restaurateur, but also a writer, ended in a scandal, so after the breakup, he wrote a frank book about life with Vilkova, showing her not in the best light.

Before marrying Ilya Lyubimov, Katya met with a rich and influential politician and businessman who showered her with gifts and patronized her.

Personal life

Ekaterina met her future husband, actor Ilya Lyubimov, under rather interesting circumstances. The actress recalls:

“Once my friend invited me to take part in a photo shoot that was supposed to take place outside the city. We went in two cars. A friend said: “Do you know that the famous artist Lyubimov, who serves in the church, is driving that car over there?” This seemed a little strange to me. After the photo shoot, we all went to see Ilya in his theater dressing room. We had many questions for him. We talked for about an hour about faith, about the Church. Saying goodbye, I entered his number into my phone and signed it: “Father Ilya.” Well, how could it be otherwise? If in church, it means “father.” All the “fathers” are there. That's what I thought..."

A couple of weeks later, Catherine went to church for Easter, attended the service and met Ilya Lyubimov again at communion. And soon after Easter, Ilya called and invited the girl on a date. On the Red Hill holiday, the lovers confessed their love to each other, and on May 1, 2011, their wedding took place. On February 11, 2012, the couple had a daughter, Pavel. Two years later, on April 6, 2014, the happy parents were congratulated on the birth of their second child, their son Peter.

Ekaterina Vilkova about her husband: “Ilya allows me literally everything. I can buy anything, go or travel anywhere. I can consult with him on any issue, but do it my own way. I can work as much as I want. Ilya, of course, worries that I get tired, that sometimes filming can be very difficult. He feels responsible for me. In our family, he is the head. And that's great! I don’t have to make important decisions; I can rely on my husband in everything. I have no prohibitions - complete permissiveness. Maybe it’s true, it’s because I don’t want anything so forbidden...”

“I dream at the age of 90 to look back, to see my 97-year-old husband next to me, to understand that I have loved him all my life, that we are together and our paths have not diverged, and our views have not changed. And then, apparently, it will be possible to consider that a certain life plan has been fulfilled,” notes the actress.

“I love to work,” explains Ekaterina, “but family is the most important thing for me!”

Ekaterina Vilkova's husband - Ilya Lyubimov

Ekaterina Vilkova’s husband, Ilya Lyubimov, is the most mysterious and unpredictable person in Russian cinema. He was not a very popular actor and not at all rich, so he often sat behind the wheel of a woman’s car and allowed the girl to pay for dinner in a restaurant.

The young people met by chance in 2010, after Vilkova participated in a photo shoot for a famous magazine, and Ilya watched her lovingly from the sidelines. The guys talked about nothing, and then exchanged phone numbers, but simply forgot to call each other.

Previously, Ilya had a very bad image, he was called a womanizer who did not disdain casual relationships, was an alcoholic and drug addict, and he did not believe in God. Later the guy believed, he repented, served as a sexton in the church and began to look for a worthy, pious life partner.

Catherine also did not fit the parameters of a pious and flexible wife, but on Christmas Day they met at a church service. Ilya decided to conquer the girl and become her loving husband, so he asked for a blessing from his confessor, who advised him to wait.

Before the wedding, young people simply hugged and did not allow intimacy. In a wedding photo in 2011, Ekaterina parades in a closed snow-white dress, and her husband wears a strict black suit.

The photo of Ekaterina Vilkova with her husband and daughter evokes only tenderness, since from it a golden-haired angel looks at the audience in the arms of her beautiful and pure-hearted parents.

Interesting Facts

• The actress’s film idols are Oleg Efremov, Oleg Yankovsky and Alexander Abdulov.
• Ekaterina Vilkova does not like nightclubs and social events. Considers himself a shopaholic.
• Recognized as "Woman of the Year" by Glamor magazine (2011).
• The assumption that actress Taisiya Vilkova is the sister of Ekaterina Vilkova is unreliable.
• Catherine is often compared to Hollywood actresses. After many successful roles, she began to be credited with resemblance to Uma Thurman and Amanda Seyfried.

Interview

About my work:

“I try to be honest. You have to work and always do the best you can. Constantly learn and don’t mess around, don’t deceive yourself.”

“So that you don’t disappear in this world, you need to become necessary for it. I still feel like every movie is my last. I want to see the result of my work, but the process itself is no less interesting. It’s not interesting to just receive, it’s interesting to achieve everything on your own.”

“Having tried myself in the roles of positive young ladies, I understand that the further the character of a particular heroine is from me, the more interesting it is to understand it. You delve into yourself and find something you didn’t suspect before. If it works out, great!”

About Valery Todorovsky:

“Valery Petrovich is a wonderful director, he always knows and achieves what he wants. He sees the big picture and very skillfully guides you in the right direction. You don’t even notice when he managed to plant this or that information in you. You can trust him. He will not deceive and will always help. Working with him is a joy and a great success.”

About your hobby:

“At one time I took up beadwork. I bought everything I needed for this: a bunch of beads, beads, books on beading, all sorts of tools for this, various tweezers. And for about six months, every evening I sat, weaved, made jewelry that I sometimes wear, it was a pity to give something, it was very painstaking work, but I gave it.

Then I somehow lost interest in this matter and began to knit madly. Moreover, when I started filming “Panther” in Minsk, I saw a huge number of yarn stores there. And that’s it, now the house is littered with this yarn, knitting needles, and various row counters. On the set, they call me to the set, and I knit like a grandmother, now, I say, I’ll finish the row. I couldn’t tear myself away, I wanted to see the result. Apparently, I love activities that give immediately visible results, so I’m periodically drawn to something like that.”

About life priorities:

“I just know for sure that the main thing for me is family. I wouldn't like to someday wake up surrounded by boxes of my films and dusty awards. It’s much more pleasant to find yourself surrounded by your children. Without a couple of films, without any outfits, but with dear people.”

Role-playing games

Cotton bustier with lace and velvet skirt, all Dolce & Gabbana ; gloves, Bottega Veneta ; gold necklace with pearls, Mikimoto .

Katya studies the menu for a long time, as if it were a script: “I’m reading it and I can’t even roughly imagine what it means, what it looks like. Besides, today is Friday, a fast day, and I want to find something fishy and without sauces.”

We are sitting with her in a Moscow-style, expensive and pointless restaurant. In the end, a business lunch with red mullet is found on the menu. Having placed the order, Katya lights up a gray Kent with relief: “In general, the further you go, the less interesting you become as an actress. When I started, it seemed like the world was about to turn upside down, and then you realize that, by and large, people don’t care about each other.”

I remember how three years ago my good friend Dunya Smirnova described to me the new actress starring in her television series “Fathers and Sons” as a beauty and a future star. We even all had dinner together at another pointless Moscow establishment, but, as Vilkova rightly notes, people don’t care about each other - and I didn’t really believe in the future star then. A year later, I saw Vilkova again - at the Golden Eagle ceremony. She professionally lavished smiles in a delightful evening dress, and there were not much fewer reporters hanging around her than around N.S. Mikhalkov. It dawned on me that Dunya was not mistaken, but it was too late.

Katya takes a sip of Americano and continues: “You try to do your job well - but it’s not like you’re going to “create.” Just work. You're definitely trying to say something. However, if they don’t hear you, that’s normal. You come, you get money."

Cotton bustier with lace and velvet skirt, all Dolce & Gabbana ; gloves, Bottega Veneta ; velvet belt, Louis Vuitton ; tights, Calzedonia ; gold necklace with pearls, Mikimoto .

Katya, I must say, generally expresses herself quite casually: “money”, “great”, “tasty” in the sense of “good”, etc.

I interrupt - what kind of “money” can a modest Russian actress have? Katya explains: “I don’t mean money as such. It’s just that, for example, my dad goes to work every day. And over time, I begin to feel about my work in much the same way. I get nervous before every role, I don’t sleep, it can’t be taken away, psychophysics kicks in, it’s impossible to approach what you do with a cold nose. But I don't think about what I want to say with this or that role. I don’t know how to build an image from beginning to end, as, for example, Zhenya Mironov does.”

Katya’s dad, who goes to work every day, is an electrician. She was born and raised in Nizhny Novgorod, two families lived in an apartment. I just can’t figure it out - is it a communal apartment, or what? Katya: “No, just a three-room apartment for two families. Two rooms are ours, and the third is another family's. A long time ago they gave me such an apartment. My neighbor's TV had to be switched with pliers, but ours was a push-button TV - you could use a match. I was very loved as a child. Nizhny Novgorod is a wonderful city; I associate it with a feeling of happiness. I didn’t have a super bike or super roller skates, I wore my brother’s jeans, but I didn’t envy anyone. I didn’t notice at all that it was a terrible time, that the White House was burning. I don’t remember that there was an acute shortage of money, although there was none at all. And there was no envy towards anyone. Previously, I probably would have been embarrassed to enter such a restaurant. I wouldn’t come in even now, just come here for lunch - why the hell should I? I have places where I feel calmer and more comfortable, and I understand what the menu says and can ask for what I want. Sometimes, of course, you want to go to dinner in a beautiful dress and shoes. But I just like to play it - and in life I want to slouch. Because I'm slouched!"

She graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School and entered the Moscow Art Theater School. In 2005, the first movie happened - “Satisfaction” by Mikhail Shevchuk. “That was the first time I got a taste that boring studies can be interesting if you start to develop in this way.” Then there were “Hipsters”, “Black Lightning” and the status of one of the most interesting new actresses.

Mink fur cape, Louis Vuitton ; silk bustier, Obsidian ; white gold necklace with diamonds, ChanelJoaillerie ; white gold ring with pearls and diamonds, Mikimoto .

Vilkova looks a bit like Amanda Seyfried. The only difference is that Seyfried is given the opportunity to play something worthwhile (as in Egoyan’s “Chloe,” for example) and she does not have to utter outright nonsense, as sometimes happens with Vilkova at the behest of the screenwriters. As it was sung in the song - isn't it offensive? It turns out that no, it’s not offensive: “Yes, yes, I sometimes saw Seyfried on the cover and took her for myself - I think, why was I filming? I periodically scolded both our country and our cinema. And then I realized - well, yes, they don’t film “Chloe” here. But they are filming something else here. If I were in Hollywood, it’s not a fact that I would even give interviews now. I have no aspirations to conquer the world or win an Oscar, I just want to work. Of course, you want to be known. But nothing more. It seems to me that it is more important to have a family, children, so that everything is fine with the parents. I would like to earn enough money to be able to send it abroad on vacation. Sometimes I wish there was a director who would pull something out of me that I wouldn’t even suspect. What if there is nothing else inside? I have enough work - thank God, I can still choose from three paintings, sometimes. Or, out of greed, you grab all three, go crazy, stop sleeping, and throw yourself at people.”

As if to confirm these words, the phone rings, and I hear Katya answering someone: “Oh, forgive me, now I don’t have the energy for the theater at all and won’t have it in the near future.”

Vilkova is obviously lucky - at twenty-six she can choose, and her future seems quite crowned. What if you were unlucky? “Well, I could become a rhythmic gymnastics coach, I did that. Or I would go into the advertising business. That’s how I earned money when I was studying—I was a promoter, that is, I handed out invitations in stores. Or I would go into trade. My friend became a salesperson, I could do it too. In Mango, it was cool for Nizhny. There would be a cashier salesperson, then a senior cashier, then who else is there... a manager, an administrator? I always wanted to sing, but I couldn’t sing, well, somewhere around here I became an actress. Now I’m skating - I went to the “Stars on Ice” project. For what? Conquer yourself - learn to skate, take a couple of Pugacheva’s songs and skate beautifully to them.”

Vilkova has a very unmodern approach to life - she has neither LiveJournal, nor Facebook, she does not know how to download a movie or an album, preferring instead to go shopping for half a day in search of the necessary media (by the way, she drives a car, and not bad). “It was interesting for me to study in Nizhny Novgorod - just as children are born premature, we all entered there a little premature. And they tried to raise us in greenhouse conditions. It’s not like that in Moscow - here you either completely break down or grow up crooked.”

*Cotton corset, Louis Vuitton ; silk skirt, Dolce & Gabbana ; leather shoes, Christian Louboutin ; pony skin belt, Balmain ; stockings, Calzedonia ; white gold and diamond earrings, Harry Winston; yellow pearl necklace, Mikimoto ; white gold ring with diamonds, **Chanel Joaillerie.***Car: Mercedes Benz 540K, 1936.

Katya, of course, is lying. Vilkova, in a word, is easy-going. She accepts life circumstances as roles. Nizhny, the film adaptation of “Demons” (where she played Dasha), handing out flyers, gatherings in a restaurant, Seyfried style - all this is nothing more than mise-en-scène in which she finds herself for the time being.

In order to somehow break up this accommodating attitude, I pose the question bluntly: “You, Katya, are young and beautiful now, but this will not last forever. Aren’t you afraid that you’ll bite your elbows later because you didn’t have time to act, for example, in erotic thrillers, and in general?” Katya smiles: “Let’s start with the fact that I myself don’t know how to act in erotic scenes.” “Well,” I say, “but in Todorovsky’s “Vise” you appear completely naked.” Katya: “And that’s not me. This is a double."

I probably couldn’t hide my disappointment at that moment, and Vilkova laughed: “So many times I’ve already made a discovery for everyone!”

Watch two new films with Ekaterina Vilkova in the title role: “Christmas Trees” in theaters from December 16 and “Exchange Wedding” – from February 10.

The editors thank Kulturny on Frunzenskaya for their assistance in organizing the shooting. (interiors of the vintage car museum and the Moskvich restaurant)

Photo: James White. Style: Lyudmila Zaichkina. Hair: Roberto Pagnini/Freelancer. Makeup: Tatiana Makarova/Marie-France Thavonekha. Manicure: Orly. Photographer's assistants: Neal Jackson, Linus Morales, Yuri Boldenko, Dmitry Kolomiets. Makeup artist assistant: Alena Moiseeva. Producer: Elena Serova. Producer assistant: Ekaterina Zolotrubova.

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Filmography: Actress

• The Last Hero: Root of Evil (2019)
• Black Sea (2019), TV series
• Cold Shores (2019), TV series
• Doctor Richter (2017), TV series
• White Shaman (2017 – ...), TV series
• Poor Girl (2017)
• The Last Hero (2017)
• Odnoklassniki: New twist (2017)
• Villainous Fate (2016)
• Cuckoo (2016), TV series
• Hotel "Russia" (2016), TV series
• The Chicks (2016)
• Hotel Eleon (2016-2018), TV series
• Odnoklassniki (2016)
• Next to Us (2015)
• And the dawns here are quiet... (2015)
• Capsule (2014)
• Kuprin. Duel (2014)
• Battalion (2014)
• Sky of Fallen (2014)
• Only girls in sports (2014)
• One, two! Love you! (2013) TV series
• Kill Stalin (2013), TV series
• Three Musketeers (2013)
• Fighters (2013), TV series
• Once upon a time in Rostov (2012), TV series
• I Believe (2012), TV series
• White Guard (2012), TV series
• Dostoevsky (2011), TV series
• Furtseva. The Legend of Catherine (2011), TV series
• Supermanager, or the Hoe of Destiny (2011)
• Exchange Wedding (2011)
• Raider (2011)
• PiraMMMida (2011)
• What else do men talk about (2011)
• Love.OFF (2011)
• White Guard (2011), TV series
• A Link of Times (2010)
• Female (2010)
• On hook! (2010)
• Christmas trees (2010)
• The Chicks. A Tale of False Love (2010)
• Black Lightning (2009)
• Suggested Circumstances (2009)
• Killing Game (2009)
• Wedding (2009)
• White Lilies (2009)
• Rich Heir (2009)
• Book of Masters (2009)
• Desire (2009)
• Palm Sunday (2009), TV series
• The One Who Turns Out the Lights (2008)
• Hipsters (2008)
• Fathers and Sons (2008)
• Kamenskaya-5 (2008), TV series
• Posthumous image (2008)
• Zastava Zilina (2008)
• Dumplings with cherries (2008)
• Vise (2007)
• Full Breath (2007)
• Panther (2007)
• You Can't Catch Us (2007)
• Main Caliber (2006)
• Demons (2006)
• Satisfaction (2005)