Viktoriya Tolstoganova
Виктория Толстоганова
Viktoriya Tolstoganova at the opening of the 21st film festival "Kinotavr" in 2010.
Born
Viktoriya Viktorovna Tolstoganova

(1972-03-24) 24 March 1972
NationalityRussian
OccupationActress
Years active1997–present
Spouse(s)Andrei Kuzichev
(m. 1996–2011) Alexey Agranovich
(m. 2011–present)
AwardsGolden Eagle Award

Viktoriya Viktorovna Tolstoganova (Russian: Викто́рия Ви́кторовна Толстога́нова; born 24 March 1972) is a Russian film and theater actress.

Biography

Viktoriya Tolstoganova was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Born on March 24, 1972, in Moscow in the family of an engineer and an English teacher. She has three younger sisters.[1] After graduating high school, she tried to enter theater university. In 1992, Victoria passed the selection at both Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and GITIS. Her choice fell on Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), where she studied traditional school of Russian psychological theatre for Professor Joseph Heifits. While still a student, she was invited to the troupe of the Moscow Art Theatre, where she served until the mid-2000s.[2]

Tolstoganova graduated from GITIS in 1997 and made her film debut playing a major role in the short feature film “Day Duty” directed by Roman Khrushchev.[3]

Career

In 2003 she played the role of Marina in The Magnetic Storms.[4] In 2004 she was selected to help chose the recipients of Russia's Triumph Prize winners.[5] In 2005 she was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.[6] In 2007 she played a prostitute in the film May.[7] In 2010 she starred in the Klim Shipenko directed Who am I? playing a provincial journalist.[8]

Viktoriya Tolstoganova at the Kinotavr film festival in Sochi, 2016.

Personal life

In August 1996, Tolstoganova married actor Andrei Kuzichev. They have two children: daughter Varvara and son Fedor. The couple divorced in 2010 (according to other sources in 2011). On 17 May 2011 the actress gave birth to a son, Ivan. The boy’s father is theater director Alexey Agranovich.

Selected filmography

TV series "The Capital of Sin" 2010, Viktoriya Tolstoganova and Andrey Batt.

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997My First Teacher, or The Russian Stag-Partyepisode
2002The Moon Glades
2002ShoemakerAlisa
2002AntikillerTamara
2002The Kamikaze DiaryLarisa
2003The Ice-Crusted GroundOna
2003The Magnetic StormsMarina
2005EscapeIrina
2005The Man's Season: The Velvet Revolutionwife Vershinina
2007MayViktoriya
2007The branch of lilacNatalya Satina
2007NaturщicaDagni Yull
2007KorolevKseniya Vincentini wife Korolev
2010Burnt by the Sun 2: ExodusMarusia Kotova
2011Burnt by the Sun 2: CitadelMarusia Kotova
2011Find meNatasha Kuzovlёva
2012The SpyIraida Petrakovich
2015Diamond crossAnna Lanskaya
2016Champions: Faster. Above. StrongerSvetlana Khorkina's mother
2017Going VerticalKsenia Garanzhina
2018Above The SkyMother
2019ThunderstormKabanikha
2020Far FrontiersMaria Leskova
2021Captain Volkonogov EscapedSteiner widow
2021The ExecutionNadezhda

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002Request stopLusyaMini-series
2003Give Me a Lifefashion model RitaTV series
2003The Angel on RoadsSvetaTV series
2004On The Nameless HeightOlga, a sniperTelevision film
2004Moscow SagaTasya PyzhikovaTV series
2006Storm GateValyaMini-series
2008RevengeNinaTV
2008InvasionNatalia NowickayaTV
2009Prodigal childrenLidiya MorozovaTV series
2009Maternal instinctMariya BoikovaTV
2010Family houseEvgeniya Alexeyevna SokolovaTV series
2010The Capital of SinOlgaTV series
2011The Ballad of the bomber ElizavetaTV series
2011Forest LakeTonya StolyarovTV
2013DepartmentLidiyaTV series
2014Widow PolinaTV series
2014Embracing skyMarina LugovayaTV series
2014The ExecutionerRaisaTV series
2015Investigator Tikhonov AnastasiaTV series
2017A Policeman's WifeLera ValetskayaTV series
2019Gold DiggersEmmaTV series

Awards and nominations

References

  1. "Виктория Толстоганова: "Я хочу вновь прожить свое детство"".
  2. "Виктория Толстоганова - актриса кино и театра - биография | Последние новости жизни звезд 7Дней.ру".
  3. "Виктория Толстоганова".
  4. Birchenough, Tom (31 October 2003). "Back to Perestroika Era in Factory Film". The Moscow Times. Sanoma. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  5. Reich, Rebecca (30 January 2004). "Due Credit". The Moscow Times. Sanoma. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  6. "27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  7. Mourzenko, Leo (4 May 2007). "A crime against art". The St. Petersburg Times. (Sanoma). Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  8. "'Who am I?' and 'The Unfinished Letter' at CIFF". Daily News Egypt. 7 December 2007. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
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