The series about a Russian woman of Balzac age, who now and then solves the problems of relatives, and does not live her own life, quickly won the hearts of the audience. The reality shown in “Olga” is so close to many Russians - a strong woman who brings up children without a father, and even tries to arrange her sister’s personal life and wean her father from drinking alcohol. Further about the actors of "Olga 2", the film crew, the series.
TV Show Info
The series shows representatives of several generations at once. This is a real family where everyone has their own shortcomings and advantages. The film crew and the actors of the series “Olga 2” showed the real Russian reality truthfully and with some irony. The picture looks both realistic and very funny at the same time, so it’s not surprising that the audience loved the series.
Season 2 Filming
The actors learned that “Olga 2” will be even before the release of the first season on the screens - in the summer of 2016. Filming continued until the end of 2016, and new episodes aired in 2017. The comedic but very vital series Olga showed impressive results in terms of views. Almost a quarter of TNT channel viewers aged 14 to 44 years (this is the target audience) watched the series at the time of the first season, a third - if we consider only the youth audience (18-30 years).
Filming was done by Good Story Media. This is the same creative group that shot "Fizruk", "Private Security Company", "Real Boys", "Voronins", "Eighties". The founders of the company are producers Artem Loginov, Anton Schukin and Anton Zaitsev, now Good Story Media belongs to the TNT channel, and products released by talented directors go to prime time on the STS, TNT, MTV channels.
“Olga 2” was shown on TNT in the summer of 2017. The series has not lost high positions on views.
Camera crew and actors
In the series “Olga” (season 2), the actors and roles that the audience loved from the first episodes did not change. The main role is played by Yana Troyanova. The Russian theater and film actress managed to get used to the role of a mother who brings up two children from two different marriages, and a woman pulling the whole family. The role of Olga’s daughter went to Ksenia Surkova, her son is played by a very young Russian actor, Mohammed Abu-Rizik, who made his debut in Olga. The plot is associated with several characters: the guy (later husband) and the father of the child, Ani Andrei, whose role was played by Sergey Romanovich, sister (Alina Alekseeva) and father (Vasily Kortukov) Olga. Even in the first season, viewers also know Grisha - a simple Ryazan guy, a hearse driver who loves Olga. It is played by Maxim Kostromykin.
But not only the actors of the series “Olga 2” made them the way the audience loves him, although their merit in this cannot be minimized. Still on the project, writers, sound engineers, cameramen worked. The director of the second season was Anton Bormatov, and screenwriters: Artyom Loginov, Alexander Dulerain, Anton Zaitsev, Anton Schukin, Pavel Oreshin, Olga Dolmatovskaya, Alexey Ageev, Artem Lempert, Nikolai Akopov - in general, a whole creative group. The producers are Anton Schukin, Artem Loginov, Anton Zaitsev, Alexander Dulerain, camera operator - Kirill Klepanov.
Yana Troyanova
Before “Olga”, the actress was remembered for her role in the drama “The Top”, the good comedy “Kokoko” and the deep tape “Live”. Yana Troyanova was born in Sverdlovsk in 1973. She became the illegitimate daughter of singer Viktor Smirnov, and her mother, having become pregnant at 18, decided not to tell the married man this news and raised the girl herself. Even the middle name of Yana’s mother gave her daughter something else - in honor of Alexander Pushkin.
The girl began to show acting abilities at a very early age. But the childhood of the actress was by no means cloudless. Bold temper, pronounced artistry - all this became the reason that at school, Yana constantly conflicted with teachers. The formation of Yana Troyanova as an actress was difficult. She graduated from high school in the nineties, when the profession of an actress was not in demand. Yana graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, and then the first time she entered the theater.
The actress of the TV series “Olga” made her debut on the stage of local theaters. She later starred in the psychological drama "The Top", to which Russian viewers reacted ambiguously. Some were delighted with the actress and the script of the film, others said that this story has nothing to do with reality. The next role is an informal woman who is in love with an AIDS addict. In the same 2012, she played the provincial Vika in the movie Kokoko. In 2014, Yana Troyanova quite successfully tried herself as a director. Next - the role in "Country of Oz", "Olga" and "Kids".
Ksenia Surkova
Young talents were to become the actors of “Olga 2”, because the directors could not give “children's” roles to those who had already “lit up” in very serious works. Ksenia Surkova is now 28, but appearance allowed her to play Olga's daughter Anya. Although in an interview the girl said that she was ready to play "adult" roles if an interesting scenario occurs. The first work of the actress was the short film "Friend", in 2003 she got a role in the comedy-sci-fi film "For Far-off Earth". Later, the girl entered VGIK and continued to replenish her portfolio. In 2009, two tapes with her participation were immediately released - “The Son” of Larisa Sadilova and “One War” by Vera Glagoleva. Ksenia Surkova played in the theater, the movie "Baby House", the films "All for the Better", "Varenka", the series "Efrosinya" and many others. Of the recent works (except for Olga), the role in the youth “Crisis of Tender Age” has become especially successful.
Sergey Romanovich
Another actor of "Olga 2" is Sergey Romanovich. The young actor (Sergey is now 25 years old) participated in the G8 youth summit, made his excellent debut in the film "Tender May", played in the remake of the American "Escape" and in the series "Life and Adventures of the Bear Jap", "Kitchen", "Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone ”,“ Method ”,“ Box ”.
Muhammad Abu Rizik
The series "Olga" (season 2) gave the actors a good impetus in their careers, and for Muhammad Abu-Rizik, who embodied the role of Timothy - the son of Olga, he became an excellent debut work. A thirteen-year-old actor starred in commercials, participated in several fashion shows.
Alina Alekseeva
Before filming in films and TV shows, Alina Alekseeva, an actress in the TV series Olga (season 2), worked as a fetish model and developed costumes. She even presented her own fetish show - the first in Russia. By the age of 20, the actress managed to star in a dozen video clips of domestic music groups. Later cameo episodes in the series "Friendship of Peoples" and "Kitchen".
Vasily Kortukov
Vasily Kortukov graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio, currently lives and works in St. Petersburg. The actor was remembered by the audience for almost 50 works in various projects. He played in Gorky and Gorky-2, Cop of Wars-7, Marusa, Sea Devils-2, Streets of Broken Lights and Secrets of the Investigation.
Maxim Kostromykin
The actor was born in Kazakhstan in 1980. His parents were not connected with the world of cinema, so the young man had to make his way to fame on his own. He starred in the scandalous film "Everyone will die, but I will stay", and the first main role of Maxim was the image of Seryozha in the melodrama "King, Queen, Jack", which was released in 2008. To date, he has played in more than 50 small projects, there are, of course, in the actor’s portfolio and the main roles.
The list of actors and roles of "Olga 2" on the listed does not end at all. The series also starred Timothy Zaitsev, Anna Galinova, Vladimir Kebin, Julia Serina, Rosa Khairullina and others.