Refined foreign beauty, a unique charm, a calm restrained manner of playing made actresses from the Baltic countries popular with the Russian cinema audience. We present a small list of popular movie stars of different generations from these countries.
Muceniece Agatha (1989)
Born in Riga, father was a bartender, died early when Agatha was a child, mother worked as a cook. In school, she was engaged in a theater studio. After school, she worked as a model in Europe. Then she studied at the University of Latvia, majoring in Chinese philology. In 2008 she entered VGIK, which she graduated in 2012. Agatha starred in many commercials, including Nescafe, MegaFon, Jardin, Sberbank. In 2011, she married actor Pavel Priluchny, the couple has two children: son Timothy and daughter Mia.
The actress made her debut in the series "Trace" and "Stroybat". The role of Dasha Starkova in the mystical thriller Closed School brought fame to Agate. In 2017, she received the main role of Sasha in two seasons of the crypto-historical series Quest.
Ditkovskite Agnia Olegovna (1988)
The Baltic surname of the actress was inherited from her father Olegas Ditkovskis, until the age of 15 Agnia lived in Lithuania. Then, together with her mother, actress Tatyana Lutaeva and her brother moved to Moscow. At VGIK, she studied only one course, which did not interfere with her acting career. I met with actor Alexei Chadov (from 2006 to 2009), then they broke up, and in 2012 they got married. In 2014, the couple had a baby, a year later the couple broke up again. In 2017, Agnia gave birth to a second child.
The very first film "Heat", in which she played the girl of the protagonist, brought Agnia wide popularity. The actress has starred a lot, among the well-known works are the films “Lucky Island”, “Boris Godunov” and “Viy”, the television series “Heter of Major Sokolov”, “Family Business”.
Breast Agne (1986)
Baltic film actress was born in Šiauliai. From an early age she began to practice singing, she was accepted into the oldest children's musical group En-den-du. In addition, Grudite learned to play the piano and kankles. After leaving school, she entered the faculty at Šiauliai University, where she graduated with a degree in Pop Art. The first time she got married early, at 22, the marriage broke up when her daughter was six months old. After a year and a half she got married a second time. Agne was recognized several times as one of the most beautiful women in Lithuania. Photos of Baltic actresses graced the covers of the most popular magazines in different countries.
In 2010, having started work on the Lithuanian television channel TV3, she received an offer to star in one of the main female roles in the series “Summer in Naisiai”. In this popular series, Agne starred for five years, the audience noticed a beautiful girl. In 2012, she starred in the film "Valentine's Day", in which there were several explicit scenes. The Russian audience saw the Baltic actress in the Ukrainian TV series “Sniffer” and the Russian film “Crew”.
Sexte Jan (1980)
Yana Viktorovna was born in Riga, after school in 2002 she graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. For three years she worked at the Riga Russian Theater, where she was recognized as the best young actress. Since 2005, he has been working in the theater studio of Oleg Tabakov. In 2013, she married the composer Dmitry Marina for the second time, the next year she gave birth to her daughter Anna.
The first notable films in which Yana took part were the television series Counterplay and Heavenly Court. In the popular series "Thaw" Valery Todorovsky Yana got the role of cameraman Lucy Polynina. In 2017, she played the ballerina Svetka in the drama Big.
Ingeborga Dapkunaite (1963)
The most popular Baltic actress in Russia was born in Vilnius, in the family of a diplomat and meteorologist. A girl was brought up in early childhood, a grandmother and grandfather, since parents worked for a long time in Moscow. While studying at school, the girl was fond of sports, for 3 years she was engaged in a theater studio. After graduating from school, Ingeborg entered the Lithuanian Conservatory. In 1985, she began working as an actress in the Kaunas Drama Theater, and then in the Vilnius Youth Theater of Eymuntas Nyakroshyus. In 1991, she made her debut at the London Theater, where she played with John Malkovich. Ingeborg was married three times, in 2017 gave birth to a son, Alex.
The most famous works in Russian cinema in the films "Burnt by the Sun" by Sergei Mikhalkov, "War" by Alexei Balabanov, "Moscow Evenings" by Valery Todorovsky. In the extensive filmography of the Baltic actress, there are paintings with the most popular Hollywood actors - "Mission Impossible" with Tom Cruise and "Seven Years in Tibet" with Brad Pete, "Shadow of the Vampire" with John Malkovich. The latest work of the actress - the Russian film "Matilda" in 2017 and the American "Red Sparrow" in 2018.
Grazina Bajkstyte (1951)
Soviet Baltic actress was born in Vilnius. After leaving school, she did not even think about her acting career and decided to study English. Having failed in exams, in 1970 she went to work as a fashion model in the Vilnius Model House. At the same time, Grazhina began acting in films of national studios in Moldova, Belarus and Estonia. In 1972 she entered the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, in the third year decided to try to enter the VGIK. She studied on the course of Sergei Bondarchuk, where her best friend was Natalya Andreichenko. After graduation, from 1978, Grazhina began working in the Kaunas Drama Theater. The actress has been married to cameraman Mikutenas A. for more than forty years, whom she met at VGIK. She has two daughters, Maria and Victoria, after the birth of her second child, she interrupted her acting career in order to pay more attention to the family. She began to write articles for magazines, wrote several books.
Grazhina’s first truly significant role was in 1974 in Anatoly Efros’s film “On Thursday and Never Again”. Where the director even changed the name of the heroine when he approved her for the role - from the Georgian Nana to the Baltic Grazhina. Among the famous works are paintings "The Tale of the Star Boy", "Millions of Ferfax" and "Woman in White". In 2008, she starred in the role of Christina in the Russian TV series Ermolovy.
Elsa Radzinha (1917)
The famous Baltic actress of Soviet cinema, nee Elsa - Katrina Podniece, was born in Kharkov in the family of Janis and Liba Podnieks. Father was a worker, mother was a seamstress. After graduating from school in 1936-1941, she worked as a salesman, assistant librarian, chorus girl and dancer in the theater. In 1942 she began her studies at the theater studio at the city drama theater. After the war, she began working in the Jelgava, then the Valmiera Drama Theater. Since 1954 she worked at the State Drama Theater of Latvia in Riga, now the Latvian National Theater. She was married three times, the surname and daughter of Inara Aina from her second husband - actor Karlis Radzins. Elsa often performed poems by Aria Elksne, Rabindranath Tagore and Omar Khayyam,
The debut three roles (in 1949, 1959 and 1961) were small in the films of the Riga film studio. The first big role was Queen Gertrude in Hamlet (1964) by the famous director Grigory Kozintsev, which also featured popular actors Innokenty Smoktunovsky and Anastasia Vertinskaya. After the premiere of the film, Elsa became the most famous Baltic actress in the country. In 1974, she received one of the main female roles in the "King Lear" of the same director. In 1976 she received the title of People's Artist of the USSR. In subsequent years, she continued to act in films, the most famous works - The Secret of Blackbirds, Death under the Sail, Favorite.