Katerina Shpitsa

Katerina Anatolievna Shpitsa (Russian: Катери́на Анато́льевна Шпи́ца; born 29 October 1985[1]) is a Russian theatre and cinema actress.[2][3] She is an actress best known for Katya: Military Story (TV series 2009) and Brothel Lights (2011).

Katerina Shpitsa
Katerina Shpitsa in 2017
Born
Yekaterina Anatolievna Shpitsa

(1985-10-29) 29 October 1985
Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
OccupationActress
Years active2004–present
Spouse(s)
Konstantin Adayev
​
(
m. 2010; div. 2015)
Children1
Parent(s)Galina Shpitsa
Anatoly Shpitsa

Biography

Early life

Yekaterina Shpitsa was born on 29 October 1985 in Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Her mother Galina Shpitsa (née Karpovskaya) was a lawyer, while her father Anatoly Shpitsa was a miner.

Katerina lived in Inta, Komi Republic until she was 13 years old and studied foreign languages at an experimental French school which combined common regular subjects with arts.

Career

Film

In her youth she won a local beauty contest and also worked as a model. Later director Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich invited her to star in his television musical Adam and Eve's Transformation, which was the beginning of her career in cinema. Katerina Shpitsa played the main role of a young, provincial Eva, who comes to conquer the capital.

Katerina was cast in the series The Circus Princess through her photo, posted on the site of the theater. The actress was invited to join the TeleFormat agency in order to pass the tests. The director of the series Alla Plotkina immediately saw in her one of the heroines, the girl-invalid Masha. The series started in January 2008 and spanned 115 episodes. And although the screen time of Katerina Shpitsa's heroine was relatively small, Masha's role became her first serious step towards fame.

In 2009, Shpitsa landed a major role in the series Katya: Military Story, with which the actress achieved wide recognition. She embodied the image of a romantic girl whose peaceful life is invaded by the war. The series lasted for two seasons.

Later, the actress played in a number of popular TV series: Advocates, Frozen Dispatches, Real Boys, Golubka, Moscow, Central District 3, Everyone has his Own War, Cedar Pierces the Sky, Rules of the Masquerade, Ahead of the Shot, Another Person's Face.

In 2011, Katerina Shpitsa appeared as the prostitute Zinka-Hitler in Alexander Gordon's Brothel Lights. And a year later she received one of the key roles (Alice) in the disaster film Metro, which brought her wide-spread fame.

Shpitsa played the role of the beloved of the great Russian wrestler Ivan Poddubny in the biographical film Poddubny, which was released in 2014.

In the historical series Young Guards by Leonid Plyaskin, the actress got the role of Lubov Shevtsova.

In 2016, Katerina played the role of a stewardess in the disaster film Flight Crew by Nikolai Lebedev.

Theatre

In 1998 she entered the theatre-studio CODE in Perm. She worked in the Perm Chamber Theatre New Drama.

Since 2005 she has lived in Moscow, working in the Moscow State Music Theatre of National Arts under the direction of Vladimir Nazarov.

She collaborates with the Fellowship of Free Artists.

Personal life

In 2010 she married actor Konstantin Adayev. Their son, German, was born on 25 February 2012. In 2015 the couple divorced. She was in a brief relationship with director Marius Weisberg, but the couple separated in August 2015.[4]

Katerina Shpitsa at the Russian Film Festival Kinotavr in Sochi, 2016

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2005Adam and Eve's transformationEvaTV
2006Happy TogetherSofiaTV series
2008The Circus PrincessMashaTV series
2008Blue NightOlyaTV series
2009Katya: Military StoryKatya NovikovaTV series
2011Laughter in DarkMagdaShort
2011Brothel LightsZinka
2012Face of AnotherOlga MakarovaTV series
2012Angel HeartRita ProskurinaMini-series
2013MetroAlisa
2013Real BoysIraTV series
2014KuprinLyubaTV series
2014PoddubnyMasha, beloved of Poddubny
2014Gift with characterNastya Sinitcina
2014Funny Boys;)Anya
2014Yolki 1914skater Ksenia
2015The Young GuardLyubov ShevtsovaTV series
2015Bet on LoveAnna
2016Yolki 5Zhenya
2016Breakfast with DaddyYulya
2016Flight CrewVika, stewardess [5]
2016 What Nobody Can SeeElza
2016FridayVera
2017 Sinbad: Pirates of the Seven StormsSolara (voice)Animation
2017GraphomaniacKsenia
2017The ArkNino
2018The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love!Varya
2019Project 'Gemini'Jane Rutkowski
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References
  1. Катерина Шпица в труппе Театра Владимира Назарова
  2. "Катерина Шпица". Russia-1.
  3. "Катерина Шпица "Жить надо так, чтобы было интересно с самим собой!"".
  4. Катерина Шпица рассталась с режиссером Марюсом Вайсбергом
  5. Определились исполнительницы главных ролей в фильме «Экипаж»
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