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Darya Moroz

Russian actress and screenwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4302852
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Darya Yurievna Moroz (Russian: Да́рья Ю́рьевна Моро́з; born 1 September 1983) is a Soviet and Russian screen and stage actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2015). She is a two-time winner of the Nika Award (2009, 2015). She is best known for starring in the TV series Gold Diggers.

Biography

Darya Moroz was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). Darya grew up in a family of actors, she started acting at an early age. She made her debut at the age of three months in the movie Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique.... As a child, Darya engaged in artistic gymnastics, but the coach did not see in her a talent for gymnastics. Then, there was a period of training in figure skating, and Darya even ranked second in the same competition. There were other children's interests: animation studio, painting, and theatrical studio.

In the years of study at the school, Daria continued to act in films, starring in five films: The Family Man, Black Square, Russian Ragtime.

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The public source identifies “Darya Moroz” as russian actress and screenwriter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Darya, Moroz and Russian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2015, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-09-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Darya, Moroz and Russian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4302852. VIAF identifies the subject as 166145214. The Library of Congress control number is no2011014438. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2015 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Darya Moroz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.