Olga Korsak (born February 10, 1989 in

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

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) is a former competitive

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

for

, and is now an actress and singer/songwriter living in

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. She is the 2006-2007 Latvian National Champion, as well as earning silver in 2004-2005, and bronze in 2002-2003. In 2006, Olga suffered a back injury while trying to qualify at the World Figure Championships in

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, Canada. Her injury forced her to retire from figure skating. After graduating from the Latvian Academy of Sports Education, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance Stage Production & Fitness, she moved to Toronto, Canada in October 2009 to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and singer/songwriter. As her music stage name of LIVVA, she achieved recognition in 2014 with her self-released debut album, ''Behind Closed Doors'', which sold more than 10,000 copies in Canada. After a few independent multilingual films, she was cast in 2018 as the lead in Junga Song's movie '' The Petrichor'' alongside famous Russian star Aleksei Serebryakov (which also featured the 2015 Junior,

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and

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Senior World Champion and 2018 Olympic double silver medalist

Evgenia Medvedeva Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva (alt. spelling: Yevgenia Medvedeva; rus, Евгения Армановна Медведева, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪjə mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪvə; born 19 November 1999), is a competitive Russian Figure skating, figure ska ...

in a cameo). The film follows the story of Maya, a former figure skater who, due to personal tragedy, fails her first two attempts at senior international competition. Inspired by her skating idol, Igor Rusky, she decides at the age of thirty to get back on the ice and pursue her dream of competing once more. ''The Petrichor'' premiered at the

Moscow International Film Festival The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...

on October 2, 2020. The film won Best Feature Film and Olga won Best Actress at the Canadian Cinematography Awards and many more awards are followed in 2020.

Awards

, - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , Oniros film awards - Best Actress , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , Canadian Cinematography Awards - Best Actress , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , American Golden Picture International Film Festival - Best Actress , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , Gold Movie Awards - Best Actress , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , Best Actor Award - Silver award , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , American Golden Picture International Film Festival - Best Actress , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , Venice Film Awards - Best Soundtrack (Not Afraid to Fall - LIVVA) , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , Tracks Music Awards - Best Original Song (Not Afraid to Fall - LIVVA) , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , Oniros Film Awards - Best Sound track (Not Afraid to Fall - LIVVA) , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''The Petrichor'' , American Golden Picture International Film Festival - Best Composer (Not Afraid to Fall - LIVVA) ,

References

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* * * Latvian female single skaters 1988 births Living people Figure skaters from Riga {{Latvia-figure-skating-bio-stub