Russian TV viewers and theatergoers know the actress Lyudmila Novikova more as Mila Novikova - that is what she prefers to call herself. Despite her youth, the girl has already managed to work both in the theater and in the domestic cinema, and also to try her hand as a screenwriter and producer.
Biography facts
Very few facts are known about the childhood and youth of Lyudmila Novikova. She was born in Moscow, at a very difficult time for our country - in August 1991 (August 5). It is known that in the summer the girl was sent to the village to stay with relatives, where she had a friend Olga, with whom they were very close friends. When, at the age of 18, Mila learned about the early death of her friend, she realized: at that moment childhood ended.
After school, Mila Novikova entered the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) at the Faculty of Journalism with a degree in television and radio broadcasting journalist, in 2014 she received a bachelor's degree. And since the girl studied at the evening and correspondence department, she devoted her free time to theater education.
First, she studied at the School of Drama of the Russian director German Petrovich Sidakov, receiving a diploma in 2012 “Actor of Drama Theater and Cinema”. In this School, German Sidakov applied to the students the system of training and education of directors and actors he had created. Its meaning is that a group of student directors closely interacts with a group of student actors, improvising, gaining experience and knowledge directly in the process of preparing performances of different genre and content. At the School of Drama, Lyudmila Novikova played roles such as Sarah in the play by A. P. Chekhova "Ivanov", Nastasya Filippovna in the play "The Idiot" by F. M. Dostoevsky and others.
From the theatrical acting works of Mila Novikova of this period, one can also single out the private performance "Memories of Edith Piaf" directed by Pyotr Vishnevsky.
In addition to the School of Drama, Mila Novikova acquired acting skills in the theatrical workshop of Klim (Vladimir Klimenko), opened at the Praktika experimental theater. In the end, the girl realized that for a serious acting career you need to get a serious education, and entered the famous "Pike" - the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute - on the course of Vladimir Anatolyevich Sazhin.
Work in the theater
By the time she graduated from university in 2018, Lyudmila Novikova was already an accomplished actress, who played a fairly large number of roles in theater and cinema. Among her theatrical works can be noted the role of Viola - Cesario in the play "Twelfth Night" based on the play by W. Shakespeare. This performance was staged by director Vladimir Mirzoev at the Courage Theater in 2017.
In addition, Lyudmila Novikova collaborated with the Partizan Theater, created by a young director and theatrical figure Donatas Grudovich, whom Mila met at the Praktika Theater. At the Partizan Theater, Novikova played in the performances "The Bullet Collector" directed by Ruslan Malikov (She) and in the performance "FUCKINGAMAL" by Donatos Grudovich himself.
Film work
The filmography of actress Mila Novikova begins in 2011, when she starred as a correspondent in the unfinished film "Sasha is alive!" This was followed by numerous invitations to shoot, and the actress participated in one or more films every year. In 2012, these were the roles of Lucy Chigis in The Rose of Farewell Winds and a whore in the short film Whore; in 2013, Novikova starred in the film One Way Out, and also starred in the role of Alice in Explosion Point and the role of Masha in The Craftsmen. 2014 was especially fruitful for the actress's film career: filming in six films - "Transit", "Cop in Law-9", "Mediator", "Practice", "Temptation", "Translator".
In subsequent years, the actress starred in such films as "Bound Feelings" and "The Sun as a Gift" (2015), "Love as a Natural Disaster" (2016), "Light from the Other World" (2018). In the film "Day of Reckoning" Novikova played the main role of Katya (2017).
Producer and screenwriter
The young and energetic actress is in constant creative search. So, in 2013, she wrote the script herself, produced the film herself and starred in it. This is a short film "One Way Out", directed by Vsevolod Aravin, music was written by Andrey Krotov. The scenario is very tragic and philosophical: two friends blame each other for the death of their third girlfriend, and each of them considers herself innocent. But all these disputes do not lead to anything - the person cannot be returned.
About the actress
Actress Mila Novikova plays diverse roles in cinema and theater, but most of all she likes negative characters. According to her, she would like to play all the villains of the world and the Universe. Along with experiments in her work, Mila is constantly experimenting with her appearance: the actress appears in front of the audience as a brunette, then a blonde, then she grows braids, then she makes a super-short "male" haircut. Mila speaks English and Spanish, leads an active lifestyle: she is engaged in snowboarding and martial arts, horse riding.
Personal life
Lyudmila Novikova does not advertise her personal life. In the acting "video business card" of 2017, Mila admitted that she really wants to fall in love - so that the butterflies in her stomach flutter, her legs fly, her eyes burn, and the air smelled of something incredibly pleasant. At that time, the actress was not married, and in general there was no information about her family.
However, in 2019, the status “married” appeared on the actress's Facebook page, and in the cover photo she was designated not as “Mila Novikova”, but as “Mila Zhukova”. However, it is still not known for certain whether she has a husband, children and a family in general.
