Smolnikova Maria Alexandrovna, Russianactress of theater and cinema, was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) on December 17, 1987. Masha's childhood was spent in an atmosphere of love and mutual understanding. Parents loved theatrical art and tried to instill this love for their daughter.
Thus, Masha grew up as a creative artistic child, even her dolls were the characters of the home theater scene, and she herself staged improvised children's plays, sitting on the floor in the living room.
When Masha was eight years old, she becameto attend a theater studio. Studying at school was given to the future actress easily, and the girl spent all her free time studying the stage and ballroom dances. Before the final exams, she took part in the production of the play "West Side Story", in which the dancer Maria Smolnikova performed one of the main roles. The classic musical of Leonard Berstein decided Masha's fate, she went to Moscow and submitted documents to GITIS. However, the first attempt failed, the girl was not accepted.
The following year Maria Smolnikova againtried to enter the capital's theater university, and again to no avail. Then the young Smolnikova decided to go to the school of culture in Yekaterinburg, and she succeeded.
At that time the artistic directorSverdlovsk Youth Theater Vyacheslav Kokorin, who Masha knew and considered her a promising actress, already worked in Nizhny Novgorod. He invited Maria to her theater to play several performances.
However, Maria Smolnikova continued to dream ofGITIS, a year later she again went to Moscow and she, at last, managed to enter the course of Dmitry Krymov. As the group was recruited experimental, on the entrance examination Masha was offered to depict, no less than a shooting Kalashnikov rifle, and she coped with the task.
In 2011, Maria Smolnikova graduated from GITIS andbegan to work in the theater "School of Drama Art", which supervised Dmitry Krymov. Maria's roles were sometimes the most unexpected, for example, in the play "Gorki-10" she played Lenin. Experiments on the stage SHIDA just go off scale, but the creative atmosphere is such that it will envy any Moscow theater.
As usual in the acting environment, Masha from time to time is removed to the movies.
List of films with Maria Smolnikova:
The film "The Daughter" directed by Natalia VadimovnaNazarova and Alexander Kasatkin - the first dramatic experience Smolnikova. Her character is sixteen-year-old Inna, who has fallen into a difficult life situation. Girlfriend girl dies at the hands of a maniac, which becomes a real shock for the heroine. Then she gets acquainted with Ilya, the son of a clergyman, and learns that his sister was killed by the same maniac. The common grief brings young people together, but the girl does not yet know what a cruel blow fate has prepared for her ...
In 2012, Maria Smolnikova played the part of Vicki in the film "God Has His Plans" directed by Dmitry Tyurin. This is a picture of the tragedy of a 35-year-old woman who earned a living by surrogate motherhood.
In the same year, the actress participated in the filming of a short film "Melisenda" directed by Natalia Taradina.
The whole of 2013 was held for Maria Smolnikova undera sign of the film "Stalingrad", in it she played her main kinolol to date. This is the role of Katya, a girl who lives in a house on the bank of the Volga River, which the horrors of the war have not escaped. The psychology of her character completely fits the creative intent of the director Fyodor Bondarchuk.
October 1942, the offensive of the 6th Wehrmacht army, and love, over which even death is powerless. This is the plot of the picture "Stalingrad", the most cash film in the history of Russian cinema.
The young actress Maria Smolnikova behind her shoulderswas, in fact, only one characteristic role in the film "Daughter", and a deeply psychological picture of "Stalingrad" required the highest acting skills. But Smolnikova did not doubt for a second that she would cope with the task. The euphoria experienced by the young actress, having learned that she was approved for Katya's role, was already the key to success, as she gave her self-confidence. Maria rushed to the phone, she wanted to share her joy with her mother.
The actress read the script without end"Stalingrada", trying not to miss a single detail. She understood that she had one of the most important roles of the future film, the role of a Russian war-time woman, whose tragic fate not only did not break her, but even gave her love. It's one thing to play a high sense in a peaceful life. And quite another - to love in an environment of deprivation and constant danger. The task is arhispy, but noble. And Maria ultimately coped with it brilliantly.
On shootings Smolnikova was nervous, her literallyshaking from the consciousness of his responsibility. Fortunately, the director Fyodor Bondarchuk noticed Masha's condition on time and very calmed her down. The entire film crew, consisting of experienced filmmakers, actors and directors, amicably supported the young actress at a difficult moment for her. "Stalingrad" became her star hour, Maria Smolnikova gained popularity. In the future, it expects the main roles, universal acceptance and love of a grateful audience.
