Olga Smirnova: from the dance stage to the theater

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:54

Actress Olga Smirnova was born in early October 1983 in Yekaterinburg. As a child, she was seriously fond of sports: figure skating, acrobatics. However, her real passion was ballroom dancing.

At the age of thirteen, her parents brought the girl to the Yekaterinburg Center for Contemporary Art, where she studied modern dance. After receiving a diploma, the girl decided to enter the Institute of Physical Education. However, studying was so uninteresting that after the 2nd year she left the university. All this time, dancing was present in her life: she went with the team to international competitions, performed both classics and modern types of dances. Olga seriously thought about linking her career with dancing.

How it all began

But fate decreed otherwise. Once Olga Smirnova, along with a dance group, was invited to take part in the Golden Mask festival. The performance was accompanied by dancing. Afterperformances, the troupe left for Yekaterinburg, and Olga remained in the capital, she set herself the goal of entering the theater institute by all means. And she did. The future actress was admitted to GITIS at the directing department. The girl got into the workshop of Oleg Kudryashov. There she met her future husband. A year after receiving her diploma, Olga began acting in films.

Her film debut was as Bob's girlfriend in the acclaimed 2007 film Stilyagi. But this is a cameo. But recognition came thanks to her role in Dostoevsky, a multi-part film directed by Vladimir Khotinenko. Olga Smirnova played in it the beloved of Fyodor Mikhailovich - Apollinaria Suslova. The image of the girl turned out to be ambiguous. Critics argued: was it acceptable to expose the breasts in the frame, was Suslova really such a fatal woman as she appeared before the viewer in the series. The creators of the picture assured at press conferences that the image was recreated as authentically as possible from historical sources.

Filmography of Olga Smirnova

After "Dostoevsky", the actress took part in the project "Diamond Hunters" by Alexander Kotta, where she again appeared as a femme fatale. Yevgeny Mironov himself invited her to shoot the film. After working on the picture, the actress recalled that the image of the fatal beauty was created thanks to outfits in flashy shades.

Another notable work by OlgaSmirnova in the movie was the role of Irina Krug in the film "Legends of the Circle". The actress admits that she did painstaking work before filming - she personally called up the widow of the chansonnier, carefully studied information from reliable sources.

Private life of an actress

One of the last works of the actress in the cinema was the role of Inga in the serial "Investigator Tikhonov". The series was released in 2016 and is still being filmed.

Currently, Olga is filming in the film "Dancing on High" as Lily. She is also involved in two more projects.

The actress is married to Alexei Filimonov, who studied with her on the course. After marriage, Olga changed her surname. The couple has two children - daughter Vasilisa and son Fedor.