Actress Oksana Akinshina is an odious person. Absolutely talented, smart, intolerant and direct to tactlessness. If Akinshin participates in the film, it means that you will find an ambiguous intriguing spectacle. This artist is able, like no one else, to create on the screen an atmosphere of utter sincerity and psychological tension.
Always different
Films with Oksana Akinshina is a spectrum of vivid transformations of the heroines she created: from the angular uncompromising teenager in the Sisters tape to the feminine and sexy Good in the musical Styles. From each image that the actress embodies on the screen, you are always anxiously waiting for some crazy act. It is such in life - extravagant and attractive, reasonable and risky.
Akinshina Oksana: filmography of the early 2000s
Her debut was remembered by anyone who is partial to art, gravitating to an arthouse. Although the film by Bodrov Jr., “Sisters” (2001), is not in the full sense a model from this category, he is quite close to her in style, artistic style, selection of actors and soundtracks. Thirteen-year-old Oksana, apparently, played herself in the film, with the only exception that she had never been the stepdaughter of a bandit and had not experienced such adventures with pursuits and weapons. She grew up in a prosperous family in St. Petersburg, far from the cinema (mom - accountant, dad - car mechanic). Like many of her peers, she studied dancing in a children's creative circle. At the casting of the film "Sisters", where long lines of candidates aspiring to star in Sergei Bodrov lined up for starring, Akinshina, as usual, got by accident. Bodrov tried to find a young person, independent and independently thinking, not a conformist and not a good guy. Eight-year-old Dina was played by Katya Goreva, Oksana Akinshina was chosen by Bodrov as the role of her mother’s sister without hesitation. Films in which her heroines are also desperate and responsive began to appear one after another after the release of “Sisters”. And for this work, "sisters" won the award "For the best acting duet."
Lily - not forever
In 2002, the scandalous drama of the Swedish director Lucas Mudisson “Lily forever” appeared at the box office. Oksana Akinshina was invited to the main role, which Mudisson really liked in Sisters. Here, the actress appeared in the image of a sixteen-year-old girl Lily, abandoned by her mother to the mercy of fate. The heroine has an uneasy and ruffled character, she does not organically tolerate hypocrisy and falsehood, her relationship with relatives and classmates is very complicated, and she does not find support anywhere. The only friend and touching love of Lily was the same orphan Volodya, but he goes on suicide after the deceived Lily leaves for Sweden for the ghost of a better life. The role, of course, was a success for the actress. Among the awards received by the film at festivals, there are two prizes for the best female role, they were received by Akinshina Oksana. The filmography of the young artist, however, contained entirely heroines with a difficult fate in difficult circumstances. In the film of Andrei Proshkin, based on the story of Vladimir Zheleznikov's “Moth Games,” the actress got the role of a similar tonality - she played a friend who devotedly and selflessly loves the main character of the musician Kostya, who does not reciprocate with her. In the 2003 Dutch film South, Akinshina has the same role: the unfortunate immigrant, a single mother illegally living in the Netherlands, Zoe. The actress was alarmed and stopped accepting offers to star in such roles.
Adventurous Roles
In 2004, Oksana missed the opportunity to show off as the extravagant adventurer Esfiri in the film adaptation of Akunin’s novel “State Counselor”, since she did not come to work on the first shooting day. In the same year, Akinshina flashed brightly in the role of Irina Neskoy in the adventure detective "The Bourne Supremacy". And in Nikolai Lebedev’s fantasy “Wolfhound from the clan of the Gray Dogs” (2006), she appeared in the image of a knesinka (something like a princess) Eleni, and this was a completely different role. A strong-willed, fragile, brave and skillful warrior girl aroused respect and delight among the public. The film, although critics did not like it, successfully passed through the country's screens, and of course, the fact that Akinshina Oksana participated in it played an important role. The filmography of the actress was replenished with a delightful character, when the sparkling musical Valery Todorovsky "Styles" appeared on the screens. Here, an adult and charming girl played a representative of non-conformist youth of the 50s of the last century. Goons, orthodoxly adhering to ideological party attitudes in lifestyle and in clothes, dudes opposed free-thinking and flashy bright outfits.
Recent film work
The film by Pyotr Buslov “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”(2011) in the scenario of Nikita Vysotsky caused mixed reviews. The picture gathered a huge number of viewers, and at the same time was negatively evaluated by many famous people of art. The cast of the film turned out to be magnificent: Panin Andrey, Leonidov Maxim, Urgant Ivan, Smolyakov Andrey, Bezrukov Sergey, Akinshina Oksana. The filmography of the latter shone with the nervous and touching role of the girlfriend of the great poet Tatyana Ivleva, who was the prototype of a real person (Oksana Afanasyeva) and at the same time personified the generalized image of all Vysotsky's lovers. A year later, the actress starred in the comedy “8 First Dates. According to the plot, her heroine - the talk show host Vera - stubborn fate persistently brings with a veterinarian Nikita. In the sequel to the film “The First 8 Divorces,” the heroes unsuccessfully try to part. The films presented are only part of the cinema biography of Oksana Akinshina, who has already appeared in more than 20 films. The sharp character and subtle psychology of the actress is a guarantee that a truly stellar future awaits her.
It remains to be added that Oksana, who has become famous on the personal front for her vivid novels, is raising two charming little sons - Philip and Kostya.