Russian theater and film actress - Ekaterina Rednikova - is one of the few representatives of her profession who have received recognition both at home and abroad. The geography of her foreign film works has American, English, Lithuanian and even Turkish "registration".
During her twenty-five-year creative career, Ekaterina Rednikova has been noted for many major and minor roles in cinema. However, the actress herself singles out from the whole variety of film works that were associated with various genre projects (from melodramas to thrillers), only three: the crime drama "House", the picture "A Gift to Stalin" and the TV series "Indus" - which, in her words, "Became a pleasant exception among uninteresting scenarios."
Biography and filmography of Ekaterina Rednikova
On May 17, 1973, the future "Russian Sharon Stone" was born into an intelligent metropolitan family (father is a senior researcher and mother is an economist). Because of the girl's shyness, her mother took her to audition at a film studio, and from the sixth grade she joined the drama club. This is what predetermined Catherine's future professional career.
After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Rednikova entered GITIS, and after graduation she was assigned to the capital's theater "Et Cetera". Here she made her debut in the play "Beyond the Horizon" with one of the main roles. Then, over the course of several years, she appeared on stage in three more theatrical projects, until a period of lull associated with cinema came. In the role of a theatrical actress, she was later noted for only one performance at the Empire of Stars theater in the middle of the 2000s.
Ekaterina Rednikova got her first cinematic experience on the set of the comedy film "Womanizer" when she was not yet seventeen years old. And then two years later there was an episodic, but characteristic film work in the film "The Abyss, Circle Seven". The next four-year period was associated with several projects, among which was the American one. And the first fame came to the actress in 1995, when the film "The Young Lady-Peasant" was released, where she played the role of the servant Nastya. This film project was nominated for "Nika" in six categories and received prizes at the following film festivals: "Golden Knight", "Kinoshock" and "Literature and Cinema".
And then came 1997 and the premiere of the cult film "The Thief", in which she, together with Vladimir Mashkov, played the main female role. From that time on, Ekaterina Rednikova became truly famous, she was recognized on the street, asked for an autograph. For this film work, Ekaterina received "Nika" and "Golden Aries".
A year later, there was a film work in the American project "Death Visa" and departure to the United States for permanent residence. During this period, she was noted for filming a number of cameo roles, followed by films in the films "Russians in the City of Angels" and "Frontier Blues". In the further cinematic career of Ekaterina Rednikova, foreign films began to regularly replenish her filmography.
In general, among the following list of film projects with her participation, the following deserve special attention: "Saboteur" (2004), "Nine Months" (2006), "Gift to Stalin" (2008), "Indus" (2010), "Hugging the Sky" (2013), "Family of the maniac Belyaev" (2014), "Run!" (2016), Blue Rose (2017), Boomerang (2017), Swallow (2018) and Day Ahead (2018).
Personal life of the actress
Behind the shoulders of family life there is one official marriage and one son Laurus (born in 2012). The spouse of Ekaterina Rednikova in 2008 was the producer Sergei Konov, who is a relative of Dmitry Medvedev.
In 2015, information was leaked to the press that the spouses were in a state of severing relations. This verdict was made on the basis of indirect evidence that they stopped appearing together at public events. However, there is no reliable information on this score, and the actress does not have personal pages on social networks.
