The Latvian actress Aurelia Anužite (Zuperskaite, and after the second marriage, Anužite-Laucina) was born in August 1972 in the town of Panevezys in the north of the Lithuanian SSR. The small Lithuanian town in Soviet times was a developed production center. Dad actress worked as an engineer.
Study
Aurelia Anujite graduated from Panevezys evening school in 1990. Then she entered the theater department of the Lithuanian Conservatory, now the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, where she studied until 1991. She continued her education at the Latvian Academy of Culture at the department of theatrical cinema from 1993 to 1997.
Actress career in theater and cinema
After graduating from the Riga Academy of Culture, Aurelia Anužite served in a young creative team - the New Riga Theater, founded in 1992. At the same time actively starred in the movie.
Theatrical roles
- The role of Nina Zarechnaya in the classical theatrical production of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's play The Seagull (1997).
- The role of Cristina in the play “Maiden Cristina” based on the novel of the same name by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade (1997).
- Malvina in a children's fairy tale based on the work of Pinocchio by Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1998).
- Pindatsisha in the cult play of the famous Latvian playwright Rudolf Blaumanis “Days of tailors in Silmachi” (1998).
- The role of Chloe Coverly in the comedy "Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard (1998).
- Shen in the production of the parable play "Good Man from Sichuan" by Bertolt Brecht (1998).
Kinoroli
Aurelia’s film career began in 1992. She starred in the starring thriller Spider, directed by Vasily Mass, directed by Vladimir Kayyaks. Erotic episodes of the film allowed viewers to appreciate the impeccable beauty of the young actress. In the same year, she played a small role in the musical melodrama "Nocturne Chopin" by Efraim Sevel. The popularity and love of the audience brought the actress the main role in the television two-part drama “The Secret of the de Harshan Family”, based on the novel “Stepmother” by Honore de Balzac, directed by Ada Neretniece.
In 1993, Aurelia Anuzhite starred in the film parable "And I saw in a dream" by Kazakh director Leyla Aranysheva. A dramatic film produced jointly by Finnish and Estonian filmmakers with the participation of the Latvian actress “Gray Light of November” directed by Anssi Mäntäri was released the same year.
Three years later, in 1996, the actress played a major role in the crime drama Riga Maidens, a joint film project of the Latvian and Norwegian film studios. The director of the tape is Emil Stang Lund.
Drama Follow me! (1999) filmmaker Una Tselna became the next step in the film career of the actress. In the same year, she got the main role in the Russian film "Flowers from the Winners", filmed by director Alexander Surin based on the famous novel by Erich Maria Remarque "Three Comrades."
In 2000, in the drama Mystery of the Old Council, Aurelia Anujite played a major role. The film was shot at the Riga film studio by the Latvian film director Janis Streich.
The following year, the actress played in the Lithuanian series “Waltz of Fate” (2001), playing the main female role. And she also got the main role in the Latvian drama “Sweet Taste of Poison” directed by Inta Gorodeck, based on the work “The New Host and the Devil” by the Latvian writer Janis Jaunsudrabins.
The Russian-Latvian multi-part historical film about the work of scouts during the Second World War “The Red Chapel” by Alexander Aravin, released in 2004, brought the actress recognition of film critics and a new wave of interest from the audience.
In 2005, Aurelia starred in the English film adaptation of Robert Harris’s detective novel Archangel. And a year later she participated in the filming of the Latvian melodramatic series “Not Knowing the Prices”, directed by Inta Gorodets.
The appearance of the actress harmoniously changed if, at the beginning of her career, a naive, pretty girl, who blows in the spring and the sun, looks at the viewer. In later photographs, Aurelia Anujite embodies the classic image of feminine North European beauty.
In 2007, the actress starred in the comedy melodrama of her compatriot Roland Kalnins “Bitter Wine” and the arthouse comedy “Young Night” (“Summer Madness” is the second name for this tape) by the Austrian director Alexander Khan. At that, Aurelia’s acting career ended - until a certain time or forever, time will tell. The actress herself did not give any comments regarding her further artistic fate.
The personal life of the actress
Aurelia Anuzhite never unnecessarily advertised her personal life. Her first husband was the famous Latvian theater and film actor Ivar Kalnins. Their fateful meeting took place on the set of the film "Secrets of the de Harshan Family" produced by the Riga Film Studio in 1992. At that time, Ivar had been married for about 20 years and had two daughters. But a strong love for the young red-haired beauty from Lithuania changed all the future life plans of the artist. Aurelia is 24 years younger than Ivar, but the big difference in age did not stop the deep love relationship, which subsequently led to marriage, to begin. Kalnins divorced his first wife and married Aurelia, the same age as his eldest daughter.
The civil union of Ivar and Aurelia was sealed by the ceremony of the church blessing of marriage - a wedding in the Catholic Church. Spouses settled in Riga. At that time they were rightfully considered the most beautiful famous couple in Latvia. Aurelia received Latvian citizenship and work at the New Riga Theater. In 1994, the couple was born a son, Mikus. But their life together lasted only 7 years. In the late nineties, the couple broke up.
The second husband of Aurelia Anujite was businessman Andris Laucins. After marriage, the actress took a double surname: Anuzhite-Laucina. In this marriage, Aurelia gave birth to three more children: the son of Yazep and two daughters (Agatha and Mary). Andris has two more children from a previous relationship. Now the mother of many children Aurelia devotes all her time to raising children and caring for the family.