Katerina Shpitsa

Katerina Anatolievna Shpitsa (russian: Катери́на Анато́льевна Шпи́ца; born 29 October 1985) is a Russian stage and film actress. She is best known for '' Katya: Military Story'' (TV series 2009) and '' Brothel Lights'' (2011).

Biography

Early life

Yekaterina Shpitsa was born on 29 October 1985 in Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Her mother Galina Shpitsa (née Karpovskaya) was a lawyer, while her father Anatoly Shpitsa was a miner.

Katerina lived in Inta, Komi Republic until she was 13 years old and studied foreign languages at an experimental French school which combined common regular subjects with arts.

Career

Film

In her youth she won a local beauty contest and also worked as a model. Later director Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich invited her to star in his television musical ''Adam and Eve's Transformation'', which was the beginning of her career in cinema. Katerina Shpitsa played the main role of a young, provincial Eva, who comes to conquer the capital.

Katerina was cast in the series ''The Circus Princess'' through her photo, posted on the site of the theater. The actress was invited to join the ''TeleFormat'' agency in order to pass the tests. The director of the series Alla Plotkina immediately saw in her one of the heroines, the girl-invalid Masha. The series started in January 2008 and spanned 115 episodes. And although the screen time of Katerina Shpitsa's heroine was relatively small, Masha's role became her first serious step towards fame.

In 2009, Shpitsa landed a major role in the series ''Katya: Military Story'', with which the actress achieved wide recognition. She embodied the image of a romantic girl whose peaceful life is invaded by the war. The series lasted for two seasons.

Later, the actress played in a number of popular TV series: ''Advocates'', ''Frozen Dispatches'', ''Real Boys'', ''Golubka'', ''Moscow, Central District 3'', ''Everyone has his Own War'', ''Cedar Pierces the Sky'', ''Rules of the Masquerade'', ''Ahead of the Shot'', ''Another Person's Face''.

In 2011, Katerina Shpitsa appeared as the prostitute Zinka-Hitler in Alexander Gordon's '' Brothel Lights''. And a year later she received one of the key roles (Alice) in the disaster film ''Metro'', which brought her wide-spread fame.

Shpitsa played the role of the beloved of the great Russian wrestler Ivan Poddubny in the biographical film ''Poddubny'', which was released in 2014.

In the historical series ''Young Guards'' by Leonid Plyaskin, the actress got the role of Lubov Shevtsova.

In 2016, Katerina played the role of a stewardess in the disaster film ''Flight Crew'' by Nikolai Lebedev.

Theatre

In 1998 she entered the theatre-studio ''CODE'' in Perm. She worked in the Perm Chamber Theatre ''New Drama''.

Since 2005 she has lived in Moscow, working in the Moscow State Music Theatre of National Arts under the direction of Vladimir Nazarov.

She collaborates with the Fellowship of Free Artists.

Personal life

In 2010 she married actor Konstantin Adayev. Their son, German, was born on 25 February 2012. In 2015 the couple divorced. She was in a brief relationship with director Maryus Vaysberg, but the couple separated in August 2015. Катерина Шпица рассталась с режиссером Марюсом Вайсбергом
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Filmography

References

External links

Kатерина Шпица на Рускино

Katerina Shpitsa on kino-teatr.ru
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1985 births
Living people
Actors from Perm, Russia
Russian film actresses
Russian television actresses
Russian stage actresses
Actresses from Moscow
21st-century Russian actresses
Russian television presenters
Russian women television presenters
Perm State University alumni
Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Mass media people from Perm, Russia