Maria Shukshina

Maria Vasilievna Shukshina (Russian: Мари́я Васи́льевна Шукшина́; born 27 May 1967)[1] is a Russian actress. Her film credits include Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010), Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009) and American Daughter (1995). Her television credits include Dear Masha Berezina (2004), Take me with You (2008) and McMafia (2018).[2] She hosted the show Wait for Me on Channel One Russia and was a member of the judging panel on Minute of Fame.

Shukshina receiving the title of "Honored Artist of Russia" with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008
Maria Shukshina
Maria Shukshina at the annual party InStyle Beauty Bar. May, 2013.
Born
Maria Vasilievna Shukshina

(1967-05-27) 27 May 1967
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
NationalityRussian
Alma materInstitute of Foreign Languages
OccupationActress, television, translator(formerly)
Years active1969–present
Awards
Nika Award - 2009

Biography

Early life and education

Maria Shukshina was born in Moscow, the daughter of Russian writer, film director and actor Vasily Shukshin and Russian film actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina. The actress has an older half-sister Anastasia, and younger sister Olga.[2]

She graduated from the translation department of Moscow's Institute of Foreign Languages. After the institute she worked as an interpreter and broker on the Russian commodity exchange.[2]

Film and television career

In 1969, at the age of one and a half years, Shukshina starred in the segment "Brother" in the anthology film of Vasily Shukshin Strange people. And at the age of five Masha, together with her sister Olga, played the daughters of the Rastorguev family in the film Happy Go Lucky.[2]

Two years later, the actress appeared again on the screen. She played the role of Vishnyak's daughter in the film directed by Sergei Nikonenko Birds over the City.[2]

In the mid-1990s, Maria Shukshina starred in several popular films. In Karen Shakhnazarov's film American Daughter (1995), the actress played a practical and unsentimental businesswoman, who flees from her husband along with her young daughter to America.[2] In the same year Shukshina played a similar role in the film What a Wonderful Game by Pyotr Todorovsky where Maria appeared as a beautiful student who, without hesitation, hands over her classmates to state security agencies.[2]

In the early 2000s in Alla Surikova's comedy television series Perfect Couple the actress played a brief role of a journalist who interviews Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.[2]

Maria had a lead role in Vsevolod Shilovsky's television series People and Shadows: The Secrets of the Puppet Theater (2001).[2]

In the 2004 television series Dear Masha Berezina played Katya, who independently tries to make a career in the modeling business.[2]

In the serial film Brezhnev, the actress appears as Nina Korovyakova, the last romantic interest of Leonid Brezhnev, a woman who had a certain influence on the omnipotent general secretary.[2]

In the popular melodramatic series Take me with you (2008) Maria played the main role - Maria Karetnikova, a rich woman, disillusioned with her life of luxury.[2]

The actress played the character of Polina Ivanova in the melodrama of Vlad Furman Terrorist Ivanova. In the film the son of Polina Ivanova becomes a cripple through the fault of an influential businessman, and her husband dies in jail. The woman decides to take revenge.[2]

In the drama Bury Me Behind the Baseboard, shot by director Sergei Snezhkin based on the self-titled autobiographical novel by Pavel Sanayev, Shukshina played the role of Olga, the weak-willed mother of the main hero Sasha.[2]

From the latest bright projects of Maria Shukshina, you can name the films: Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus, Deli Case No. 1, Made in the USSR, The Fire-place Guest, Who, If not I?, Stanitsa, Yolki 3, Good-bye, boys, Mannequin, Outgoing nature, Husband on call, His own stranger, Yolki 5, Such work.[2]

In 2018 she played Oksana Godman, mother of the protagonist Alex Godman, in the BBC crime drama McMafia.

Television host

From 1999 to 2014, Maria Shukshina hosted the program Wait for Me on Channel One. She a member of the judging panel on the fifth season of Minute of Fame. In 2018 she is to host the talk show A Visit in the Morning.[3]

Honors

In 2008, she received the honorary title of Meritorious Artist of Russia.[2][4]

Personal life
  • First husband - Artyom Tregubenko (divorced).
  • Second husband - businessman Aleksey Kasatkin (divorced).
    • Son - Makar Kasatkin (born 20 November 1997).
      • Grandson - Mark (born 20 April 2018).
  • Third husband - lawyer and businessman Boris Vishnyakov.
    • Twins son - Foma Vishnyakov and Foka Vishnyakov (born 31 July 2005).

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1969Strange peopleMasha
1972Happy Go Luckyuncredited
1974Birds over the cityMasha Vishnyakova
1990The Eternal Husband
1995American daughterYelena
1995What a Wonderful GameOlya
1998The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have GoneLena, second wife of Nikolai
2001A perfect matchTV Series
2002The Adventures of a magiciana hereditary witch KaterinaTV Series
2004My Big Armenian WeddingNadiaMini-series
2004Dear Masha BerezinaKatya (in the episodes)TV Series
2004Narrow BridgeNatasha, former wife of VladimirTV
2004I love youAlexanderaTV Series
2005Brezhnevnurse
2006-07Pope of all tradesYuliya SlavinaTV Series
2007Sac with a bright futureKaterina KoltsovaMini-series
2008Guilty Without GuiltTaisa Ilinishna ShelavinaTV
2008Take me with youMargarita KaretnikovaTV Series
2008IndigoIrina Sergeevna Ardashnikova
2009Terrorist IvanovaPolina Ivanovna IvanovaTV Series
2009Justice VolkovIrina
2009Bury Me Behind the BaseboardOlga, mother of Sasha Saveliev
2009RoofTatiana
2009Take me with you 2Margarita KaretnikovaTV Series
2010Burnt by the Sun 2: ExodusZinaida
2011Made in the USSRTatiana FertmanTV Series
2011Deli Case number 1Zoya PlatonovaTV Series
2011My family is crazyLidiya
2012Who, if not I?Nina BerkutovaTV Series
2012Fireplace GuestEleanora, attorneyTV
2013The VillageMarina GorobetsTV Series
2013Yolki 3Natasha
2014Mannequinmum VadimMini-series
2014Outgoing NatureVeronikaTV Series
2014Goodbye, boys!Yevdokia Matveyevna, mother of KolyaTV Series
2015It's AnotherAlexandera Marinets, police lieutenant colonelTV Series
2016Yolki 5Natasha
2018McMafiaOksana GodmanTelevision miniseries[5]
gollark: We are currently... second?
gollark: They were with me. We spent 40 minutes on a weird issue because they misinterpreted the spec.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: You should probably not share the repo where people can see it.
gollark: * Divergent Naur form

References
  1. "Мария Шукшина". ruskino.
  2. {{cite web|url=https://russia.tv/person/show/person_id/720/%7Cwork=Russia-1>"Мария Шукшина / Биография".
  3. "Мария Шукшина возвращается на Первый канал с новым шоу "В гости по утрам"". VokrugTV.
  4. "УКАЗ Президента РФ от 14.07.2008 N 1084 "О ПРИСВОЕНИИ ПОЧЕТНОГО ЗВАНИЯ "ЗАСЛУЖЕННЫЙ АРТИСТ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ" ШУКШИНОЙ М.В."". Kremlin.ru. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
  5. "Further casting announced for epic new BBC One drama McMafia". BBC. 15 November 2016.
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