Smolnikova Maria Alexandrovna, Russian theater and film actress, was born in Sverdlovsk (currently Yekaterinburg) on December 17, 1987. Masha’s childhood passed in an atmosphere of love and mutual understanding. Parents loved theatrical art and tried to instill this daughter's love.
Maria Smolnikova: biography
Thus, Masha grew up a creative, artistic child, even her dolls were characters in the home theater scene, and she herself put on impromptu children's performances, sitting on the living room floor.
When Masha was eight years old, she began to attend a theater studio. Studying at school was easy for the future actress, and the girl devoted all her free time to the stage and ballroom dancing. Before the final exams, she took part in the production of the play West Side Story, in which the dancer Maria Smolnikova performed one of the main roles. The classic musical of Leonard Burstein decided the fate of Masha, she went to Moscow and submitted documents to GITIS. However, the first attempt failed, the girl was not accepted.
Nizhny Novgorod
The following year, Maria Smolnikova again tried to enter the capital's theater university, and again to no avail. Then the young Smolnikova decided to enter the school of culture in Yekaterinburg, and she succeeded.
At that time, the artistic director of the Sverdlovsk Youth Theater, Vyacheslav Kokorin, who knew Masha and considered her a promising actress, already worked in Nizhny Novgorod. He invited Maria to his theater to play several performances.
Admission to GITIS
However, Maria Smolnikova continued to dream about GITIS, a year later she again went to Moscow and she finally managed to enter the course of Dmitry Krymov. Since the group was recruiting an experimental one, at the entrance exam, Masha was offered to depict, no less, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, and she coped with the task.
In 2011, Maria Smolnikova graduated from GITIS and began working in the theater "School of Drama Art", led by Dmitry Krymov. Maria’s roles were sometimes the most unexpected, for example, in the play “Gorki-10,” she played Lenin. The experiments on the ShID stage are off the charts, but the creative atmosphere is such that any Moscow theater will envy it.
Maria Smolnikova: filmography
As usual in the acting environment, Masha occasionally acts in films.
List of films with the participation of Maria Smolnikova:
- "Daughter" - year 2012.
- “God has his own plans” - year 2012.
- "Melisenda", short film - year 2012.
- "Stalingrad" - year 2013.
- "Kuprin", the series - year 2014.
The film "Daughter" directed by Natalia Vadimovna Nazarova and Alexander Kasatkin is the first dramatic experience of Smolnikova. Her character is sixteen-year-old Inna, who fell into a difficult life situation. The girlfriend of the girl dies at the hands of a maniac, which becomes a real shock for the heroine. Then she meets Ilya, the son of a clergyman, and finds out that the same maniac killed his sister. General grief brings young people together, but the girl still does not know what a cruel blow fate prepared for her ...
In 2012, Maria Smolnikova played the role of Vicki in the film "God Has His Plans" directed by Dmitry Tyurin. This is a picture of the tragedy of a 35-year-old woman who made a living by surrogate motherhood.
In the same year, the actress participated in the filming of the short film "Melisenda" directed by Natalia Taradina.
The main role in the creative life of the actress
The whole of 2013 passed for Maria Smolnikova under the sign of the film "Stalingrad", in which she played her main movie role today. This is the role of Katya, a girl living in a house on the banks of the Volga, which the horrors of war did not pass. The psychologism of her character fully fits into the creative plan of the director Fedor Bondarchuk.
October 1942, the offensive of the 6th Wehrmacht army, and love, over which death is not in power. This is the plot of the painting "Stalingrad", the highest grossing film in the history of Russian cinema.
Fedor Bondarchuk in the fate of Maria Smolnikova
The young actress Maria Smolnikova had, in fact, only one characteristic role in the film “Daughter”, and the deeply psychological picture “Stalingrad” required the highest acting skills. But Smolnikova did not doubt for a second that she would cope with the task. The euphoria experienced by the young actress, learning that she was approved for the role of Katie, was already the key to success, as she gave confidence in her abilities. Maria rushed to the phone, she wanted to share the joy with her mother.
The actress endlessly re-read the script of "Stalingrad", trying not to miss a single detail. She understood that she got one of the main roles of the future film, the role of a Russian woman of war, whose tragic fate not only did not break her, but even gave her love. It's one thing to play a high feeling in a peaceful life. And quite another - to love in a situation of deprivation and constant danger. The task is arch-complicated, but noble. And Mary ultimately coped brilliantly with her.
On the set, Smolnikova was nervous, she was literally shaking from the consciousness of her responsibility. Fortunately, the director Fedor Bondarchuk noticed Masha’s condition on time and reassured her very tactfully. The entire crew, consisting of experienced filmmakers, actors and directors, unanimously supported the young actress in a difficult moment for her. "Stalingrad" became her finest hour, Maria Smolnikova gained popularity. In the future, she will have the main roles, universal recognition and love of a grateful audience.