Olga Chursina: actress and ballerina

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

Olga Chursina is one of the actresses who equally amaze the audience with their appearance and creative abilities. A former ballerina, she stands out among her colleagues with her plasticity and grace, and brings the atmosphere of the Bolshoi Theater with her to any film.

Choreographic and sports past

Olga Chursina was born in Moscow in 1984. The girl was brought up in an ordinary family, her parents had no connections in the art world. A flexible, mobile girl, she was engaged in gymnastics from an early age, but at some point she decided to change the gym to a dance studio and switched to ballet.

Up to a certain point, the biography of Olga Chursina developed in a strictly defined direction. After school, she successfully entered the Choreographic Academy at the Bolshoi Theater, it seemed that her future was firmly connected with the world of classical productions.

Many teachers noted Chursina's natural plasticity, flexibility, her amazing sense of music and rhythm, predicting her a great career as a ballerina.

After graduating from the academy Olga Chursinabegan to work on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, the aspiring ballerina took part in the productions of The Nutcracker, Vain Precaution, Sleeping Beauty. In addition, the energetic girl managed to combine work in the theater with employment in the Todes show-ballet.

Movie actress

Despite the bright prospects at the Bolshoi Theater, like any young girl, Olga Chursina dreamed of becoming a famous film actress. Already at the age of eighteen, she had the chance to try herself in this capacity. Director Nurbek Egen was filming a film about the behind-the-scenes side of the life of ballerinas and, in order to give more credibility to his project, he invited a real dancer, Olga Chursina, to play the role of young Lena Ilyinskaya. The film "Willis" became Olga's debut on the big screen.

Feeling a lack of theoretical training, she decided to get a serious dramatic education and entered the acting department of the RATI. At the same time, she continues to act in films, the next work of the young student and actress was the heroic action movie March, where Olga played the role of Masha Fedotova, the ideal of female beauty.

From 2004 to 2006 the actress took part in a number of television projects, but they all went unnoticed by the public.

In 2007, Olga Chursina got the main role in the 160-episode television melodrama "You Can't Command Your Heart", providing herself with a job for a long time. While working on her role, she also met her future first husband on set.

At the same time youngthe actress joined the cast of the sitcom Top Three 2. Charming and groovy Julia, performed by Olga, became a real favorite of the audience, and increased the audience of the series. It was then that the actress became popular and recognizable, photos of Olga Chursina began to appear on the pages of fashion publications and magazines.

Recent works

At the height of her popularity, the former ballerina never slowed down and jumped at every job offer. In 2009, she took part in the filming of the next crime series City of Temptations, in addition, the actress was involved in the creation of the film Watchmen.

After Watchmen, the girl realized that she was insanely tired of the exhausting rhythm of ten-hour work shifts in television film sets and took a break from her career.

The next work of the actress dates back to 2012, Olga Chursina got a role in the mystical series about ancient artifacts and the fight against dark forces - "Dragon Syndrome".

In 2013, she again plunged into the atmosphere of mysticism, starring in the detective-fiction series The Fifth Watch.

In 2017, the release of the film "Alexander Peresvet - Kulikovo Field" was expected, which became a free interpretation of genuine historical events. Olga was also involved in one of the main roles, however, due to financial problems, the premiere of the film was postponed to 2018.

Personal life of Olga Chursina

The first husband of the charming actress was the actor Alexei Nagrudny, whom she met on the setsite of the series "You can't order your heart." Despite the fact of the wedding in the church, they did not live together for long, formalizing their final break with a divorce.

The next choice of Olga Chursina was the actor Sergei Druzhko. This attempt was more successful, they lived together for several years, and in 2014 they became the parents of a son named Plato.