Ksenia Alexandrovna Alfyorova (; born 24 May 1974) is a Soviet and Russian actress and television presenter.
Early life
She was born on 24 May 1974, in
Sofia
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,
Bulgaria
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. She is the daughter of actress
Irina Alfyorova
Irina Ivanovna Alfyorova PARAmbassador of Bulgaria to the USSR). Until age 7, she lived with her grandmother Ksenia Arkhipovna Alferova in
Novosibirsk
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. Until 16 she considered her stepfather, actor
Aleksandr Abdulov
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, to be her father. Subsequently, she was adopted by Abdulov when he married Irina Alfyorova.
In 1992, she entered Moscow State Law Academy. In 2004, she graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (course of ).
Career
She debuted in . She first appeared on television in the episode "Andersen's Tale" (1985) of the children's TV show .
From 2000 to 2001, she was co-host of
Vladimir Markin
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From 2012 he was a member of the munici ...
in the ''TV Bingo Show'' program on
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Media
* Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha (previously Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha), a Swiss broadcasting company
* ''Reformed Theological Review'', an Australian Protestant theological journal
* Return to Ravnica, a ''Magic the ...
, and from 26 December 2014, to 1 September 2017, she hosted the program '' Wait for Me'' on Channel One (replacing Maria Shukshina in this role).
She entered cinema in 2001. She took a leading role in the film by British director John Daly ', where she played in English.
In 2008–2009, she participated in the Channel One projects Ice Age-2 (paired with figure skater Povilas Vanagas) and Ice Age-3 (paired with figure skater
Peter Tchernyshev
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) In 2015, she took part in the show of the TV channel "Russia" (paired with dancer ).
In 2012, together with her husband
Egor Beroev
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Early career
Beroev graduated from the Mikha ...
, she founded the I Am! Charitable Foundation for Supporting Children with Developmental Disabilities, which works to change society's attitude towards people with developmental disabilities.