Marina Zudina
Soviet and Russian actress
Marina Vyacheslavovna Zudina (Russian: Марина Вячеславовна Зудина; born 3 September 1965) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theatre and cinema.
Biography
Early life and education
Marina Vyacheslavovna Zudina was born on 3 September 1965 in Moscow. Her father was a journalist and her mother was a music teacher. As a child, Marina took dancing, singing and ballet lessons.
In 1986, she graduated from GITIS (course of Oleg Tabakov and Avangard Leontiev).
Career
Immediately after GITIS, she was admitted to the Theater studio of Oleg Tabakov. Some of the plays she performed were "Ordinary Story" (Elizaveta Alexandrovna), "Nord Ost" (Olga), "Overstuffed Bochotara" (Sylvia), "Matrosskaya Tishina" (Tanya), "The Myth of Don Juan" (Elmira), "Mechanical piano" (Sofya Egorovna), "Last" (Love) and "Farewell ... and applaud!" (Madalena).
Zudina began to act in cinema as a student. One of her first roles - Valentina in Georgy Natanson's melodrama Valentin and Valentina (1985) based on the play by Mikhail Roshchina - she played while in her third year of studies.
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