A native of Yekaterinburg, Maria Aleksandrovna Smolnikova, despite her youth, managed to go through a thorny path to becoming in the profession of acting and popularity. Today the mass audience will recognize her by her roles in the title films "Daughter" and "Stalingrad".
The bearer of a "pure gaze", which distinguishes her from the general mass of people and is more related to Turgenev girls than modern young women, is a real boon for filmmakers. After all, Maria Aleksandrovna Smolnikova, entering the stage and film sets, always very harmoniously gets used to her characters, as if living their lives anew.
Brief biography and career of Maria Alexandrovna Smolnikova
On December 17, 1987, in Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg), the future theater and film star was born into a family of passionate admirers of Melpomene. The girl's family includes the famous artist Nikolai Kachinsky, whose paintings are exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery. Maria herself loves to draw, and she can often be found with a pencil in her hands.
The creative atmosphere of the family and the genetic predisposition to beauty determined exactly the fate of Smolnikova. Mother found for her an experimental gymnasium with a theatrical bias, where a magical atmosphere reigned, which Masha still remembers with special warmth. Thus, in this educational institution, the girl received a multifaceted education related to the theatrical stage and even ballroom dancing.
And after the graduation musical performance "West Side Story", in which the talented girl played one of the main roles, she no longer had any doubts about her future creative career. However, the path to the stage and the set lay through a series of difficult trials. After all, the failure to enter GITIS and work as an after-school teacher in her hometown, the subsequent fiasco with admission to all universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg the next year led her to the local school of culture for two months, and then to Nizhny Novgorod. It was here, working for a year and a half in the Youth Theater, that Maria began to professionally realize herself on the stage. During this period, she appeared on stage in two children's and one adult performances.
And then there was an experimental set of actors and scenographic students at GITIS, study and graduation as the best in the course. The assignment to the “School of Dramatic Art” to Dmitry Krymov allowed the young actress to realize her talent, being practically in a home atmosphere. Here Smolnikova gets real pleasure from the creativity happening on the stage and continues to work to this day.
The first serious film debut for Maria was the film "Daughter" (2012), where she played the main role and was awarded several major awards in the nomination "Best Actress". A year later, there was a truly stellar film work in the legendary "Stalingrad" by Fyodor Bondarchuk. From that moment on, Smolnikova became a recognizable and popular artist of Russian cinema. Today, many famous directors want to see her in their film projects, which filled the actress's life with increased dynamics and the sweet taste of fame.
Currently, in the filmography of Maria Alexandrovna, other films should be highlighted: “God has his own plans” (2012), “Kuprin. In the Dark "(2014)," The Other Side of the Moon-2 "(2016)," After You "(2016)," Father's Shore "(2017)," Sparta "(2017)," Kilimanjara "(2018)," Gurzuf " (2018), "Playing with Fire" (2018).
Personal life of the actress
As it should be in this situation, there is not very much information about the family life of a popular actress who does not want to advertise her. It is known that Maria Smolnikova married actor Denis Koperov, and the couple have no children yet.
Despite the rather hidden image of the artist's personal life, she is a regular user of social networks, and therefore fans can find out about all the news from this area on Instagram and VKontakte from her fresh photos.
