Marina Andreevna Pupenina, known by her

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Marina Aleksandrova (russian: Мари́на Андре́евна Пупе́нина; born 29 August 1982) is a Russian actress, best known for her role as Catherine the Great in the television series ''

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''. She is an

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...

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Biography

Was born on 29 August 1982 in the Hungarian town

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. Her father Andrei Pupenin served in the

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, stationed in Hungary, and her mother worked as a professor at

Herzen University Herzen University, or formally the Russian State Pedagogical University in the name of A. I. Herzen (russian: Российский государственный педагогический университет имени А. И. Герце� ...

. In 1986, the family moved to Lake Baikal, then to Tula, finally settling in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(now St. Petersburg) in 1987. In 1996, after graduating from high school with specializations in mathematics and music (harp), that same year she joined the Imagine drama school, and joined the Shukin Theatre School under Valentina Nikolaenko. From 2006 to 2011, was an actress for the Sovremennik Theater Company in Moscow.

Personal life

On 7 June 2008, Aleksandrova married fellow actor Ivan Stebunov. They divorced in 2010. In 2011 Aleksandrova met director Andrey Boltenko; their first child, a son named Andrey, was born in 2012. Aleksandrova gave birth to their second child, a daughter named Yekaterina, in 2015.

Filmography

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* 1982 births Living people People from Kiskunmajsa Russian child actresses Russian film actresses Russian television actresses Russian stage actresses 20th-century Russian actresses 21st-century Russian actresses Honored Artists of the Russian Federation Russian women television presenters {{Russia-actor-stub