Evgeniya Brik

Evgeniya Brik
Khirivskaya at the 2013 Odesa International Film Festival
Born
Evgeniya Vladimirovna Khirivskaya

(1981-09-03)3 September 1981[1]
Died10 February 2022(2022-02-10) (aged 40)
Occupation(s)Actress, radio host, child model
Years active2000–2022
Spouse
(m. 2006)
Children1

Evgeniya Brik (Russian: Евгения Брик, née Khirivskaya (Хиривская), 3 September 1981 – 10 February 2022) was a Russian film and theater actress. She gained popularity with such films and television series as Stilyagi (2008), The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013), Thaw (2013), Yolki 1914 (2014), Adaptation (2017), and Odessa (2019). She is also known for playing Kalinka character in the Belgian television series Matroesjka's. Brik was a winner of the Golden Eagle Award (2020) and a nominee for the Nika Award (2009).

Life and career

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Evgenia Vladimirovna Khirivskaya was born on 3 September 1981 in Moscow. She was named after her paternal grandfather Yevgeny Abramovich Krein, who was a famous journalist.[2] The actress took the surname Brik in honor of her paternal great-grandmother Sofia Brik, as a stage name.[3] However, despite marriage and adopting a stage name, she never changed her legal documentation, thus keeping her maiden last name.[4] She has Polish and Jewish ancestry.

At the age of 5, she successfully completed tryouts and was invited to work as a child model at the All-Union House of Fashion Design. In elementary and middle school, she focused on learning English, before applying for and graduating from a theater prep school. She also graduated from a music school as a classically trained pianist.

She studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and obtained her diploma in 2004.[5]

In Russia, her breakthrough role was Katya, a university Komsomol unit leader, in the 2008 musical comedy-drama Stilyagi.

Personal life and death

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Brik was married to director Valery Todorovsky, with whom she had a daughter, Zoey Valeryevna Todorovskaya, born in 2009 in Los Angeles.[6] Zoey had her acting debut as young Prairie Johnson in The OA, a 2016 Netflix Original series. Brik died from cancer on 10 February 2022, at the age of 40.[7]

Filmography

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Year Title Role
2000 Marsh Turetskogo Anastasia Kitaeva
2003 Kamenskaya Oksana
2004 Rates for love
2004 Men Do not Cry Lydia Kholodova / Vera Kayurova / Lena Kusova
2005 Matroesjka's Kalinka
2006 Call Natasha
2008 Hipsters Katya
2012 Revolve Anael
2013 The Geographer Drank His Globe Away Kira
2014 Yolki 1914 Bella
2016 Friday Elena Antonova
2017 Moscow Never Sleeps Anna
2019 Mistresses Anna
2019 Odesa Mira
Year Title Role
2001 Northern Lights
2002 Podmoskovnaya Elegy Lala
2006 The Count of Montenegro Slavka
2006 Filipp's Bay Anastasia Gromova
2007 Vices Taya
2008 Love as a motive Dina
2008 S. S. D. Jana
2009 Given Circumstances Inga
2010 White dress Irina
2010 Adult daughter, or test... Marina
2011 Deliver at any cost Asya
2013 The Thaw Larissa
2018 The Romanoffs Katrina
2020 Phantom Vera Khabarova

References

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  1. ^ Евгения Хиривская
  2. ^ "Евгения Брик (Хиривская) - биография, информация, личная жизнь, фото, видео".
  3. ^ Marina Kuznetsova. "Евгения Брик: "Даже если Спилберг пригласит меня на главную роль, найдутся те, кто скажет, что это благодаря Валере"". tele.ru.
  4. ^ "ИНТЕРВЬЮ НА УДАЛЕНКЕ | Евгения Брик". YouTube.
  5. ^ Кіно Театр
  6. ^ "Евгения Брик об "Оттепели", дочери и жизни в Лос-Анджелесе". Hello!. 2 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Скрывала страшную болезнь, увела Тодоровского из семьи: звезда «Оттепели» Евгения Брик умерла в 40 лет". KP. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
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