Honored Artist of Russia Maria Viktorovna Anikanova is the owner of one of the most amazing destinies among colleagues in the creative department in our country. Today, she continues to actively act in domestic cinema and realize herself in professional activities.
Behind the shoulders of the famous Russian theater and film actress - Maria Viktorovna Anikanova - currently there are already many roles played on the stage and on film sets. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation at one time radically changed her career, giving preference to acting instead of sports achievements.
Brief biography of Maria Viktorovna Anikanova
The future theater and cinematic star was born on June 20, 1973 in Moscow in a famous Soviet sports family. Speed skating and figure skating were given all their lives by the parents (although the father was not an athlete, but a doctor of the USSR national figure skating teams), aunt and grandfather with Maria's grandmother. It was the ice that Anikanova Jr. herself gave enormous strength to, continuously practicing figure skating from three to sixteen years old.
And her sporting achievements more than met the expectations of her titled relatives, because she managed to skate more than one season with future world champions Gezalyan and Chernyshev under the direction of Tatyana Tarasova and subsequently Gennady Ackerman, being part of the country's youth team. True, there were also costs in the form of poor school performance, but the parents did not pay much attention to this because of the emphasis made by everyone on the girl's sports future.
Today many people ask Maria how justified her choice in favor of theater and cinema has become, believing that she could perfectly realize herself in figure skating. But Anikanova herself believes that she did everything right, since she did not have enough burning desire or "light bulb" for a sports career. Indeed, only on condition of complete dedication is it possible to get a really serious result. That is why she did not start looking for a partner in pair figure skating when her established duet with Peter Chernyshev broke up due to his departure to continue his sports career abroad.
And then Maria Anikanova was awaited by the amazing fate of a theater and film actress, which she had never even dreamed of before.
Artist career
A photo of a beautiful young woman could not ignore the Mosfilm filing cabinet, Maria was regularly invited to screen tests. At first, the girl, referring to her excessive involvement in sports, refused, and after Chernyshov's departure abroad, she nevertheless decided to appear before Solovyov. The first auditions in her life were amazing. Some kind of hat and a cigarette in her hands (and this was for a nonsmoking athlete) was a necessary surroundings when photographing, but it was in this image that she was approved for her debut role in the film "House under the Starry Sky".
The first experience of filming was more like a summer adventure, when everything was unusual and exciting for her. It was then that Sergei Alexandrovich managed to convince the future actress to enter VGIK and devote his life to an acting career. And then she studied at VGIK, transferred to the legendary "Pike", which she graduated from in 1995, and worked in the troupe of the Sovremennik Theater.
However, Maria's artistic fate was also not serene. There was a period when she left the stage and left after her second husband in the United States. However, that marriage did not become the limit of her dreams, and in 1998 she returned to her homeland, and Galina Borisovna Volchek again took her to her.
Like many colleagues in the creative department? The "nineties" became a period of calm for Maria Anikanova in her cinematic career, and only with the onset of the "zero" her filmography began to replenish, which is represented by the following films: "Tomorrow under the Starry Sky", "Rescuers. Eclipse”,“Hunt for Red Manchurian”,“Two Fates-2”,“Hot Ice”,“Woman without a Past”,“Love and Death of Karenina Anna”,“Dolls”,“The Sniffer”,“Martha's Line”,“Dreaming not harmful”,“When the cranes fly to the south”,“KGB in a tuxedo”,“Parisian antiquary”.
It is with the television series "Woman without a Past" (2007) that the unconditional growth of the actress's popularity begins. The character of a strong-willed, strong woman who has lost her memory, presented in the picture, became Anikanova's calling card during her ascent to Olympus of cinematic fame.
A huge impression on the talented actress was made by her participation in one of the main roles of the serial film "Waiting List", where she was imbued with special respect for medical workers who "go through not only fate, but also human death."
The film "The Sniffer-3" belongs to the last film work of Maria Anikanova. The actress aims to actively participate in the filming of new interesting film projects and the desire to further develop in this boundless ocean of creative incarnations.
Personal life of a star
The talented artist currently has three marriages. Maria Anikanova received her first experience of marriage by marrying the figure skater Yevgeny Platonov, when she was still a first-year student at her university. Their three-year family union broke up when Platonov went on a tour of America, and Alikanova took up a creative career.
The second husband of Maria was the Olympic champion (Olympics in Nagano in 1998) Ilya Kulik. It was because of him that Anikanova left the theater and came to the United States for permanent residence. However, the ambitious young woman did not like the role of a housewife at all, and she soon returned to her homeland.
The third marriage today is considered the last in the artist's life. It was a person from the acting, not the sports environment - Andrei Sipin, who is three years younger than her - who became the conqueror of the beauty's heart. In this marriage, daughter Aglaya was born in 2010.
