Marina Orlova (actress)

Not to be confused with Marina Orlova (Internet celebrity).

Marina Orlova
Marina Orlova
Born	Marina Viktorovna Orlova (1986-03-25) 25 March 1986 Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Actress, singer, composer and poet, presenter, radio host
Years active	1995-present
Website	orlovamarina.com

Marina Viktorovna Orlova (Russian: Марина Викторовна Орлова; born 25 March 1986) is an award winning Russian actress who has starred in 35 major movies and TV shows in Moscow, Beijing and Paris. In Russian speaking world she is called as Russian Marilyn Monroe. She is in top 10 among most famous and recognized Russian young actresses. Marina currently resides in Los Angeles and is pursuing her career in Hollywood.

Early years

Marina Orlova was born on a spring morning in the resort town of Pyatigorsk, March 25, 1986, into a family of intellectuals. Marina’s mother, Ludmila was a teacher of French and German and her father Victor was a musician (accordion). Marina started to sing before talking. She had a unique low voice that is unusual for children. Already in early childhood her incredible musical talent became apparent. When she was three years old, Marina wrote her first song - "Lullaby" for herself. 20 years later this song was featured in the famous television series "Dear People".

School days

Marina went to an elementary school as all children do. But she stood out from other kids because during the breaks between her classes she played the piano and sang her songs instead of just playing with kids. One day the Director of the musical school was visiting this elementary and while he was walking down the hall he heard a beautiful voice. He was absolutely convinced that the voice was of a grown woman but to his surprise it was just a little girl. He noticed Marina’s talents and the very next day she was representing his school in the music competition called "Rising Star", where she won first place. After that Marina was invited to participate in the city contests and concerts while newspapers printed the pictures of this uniquely talented girl. One of the most elite and prestigious clubs in Pyatigorsk "The Golden Palace" had invited 9-year-old Marina to work as a singer. Every day after school her father drove her to work to perform in an evening concert. On the weekends Marina worked on children's matinees. When she turned 11 Marina graduated with honors from the classical music school in an accelerated program and enrolled in vocal jazz school, where she studied singing. Marina’s first acting experience was playing the skits in an improvisation comedy team of KVN. In 2001, when she was 15, Marina received the award "Miss KVN" as the most artistic girl.

Marina Orlova graduated high school two years earlier. She told her parents that she wanted to become an actress but they said that this is impossible. Instead of going to college she defied her parents she ran away from home at night and bought a train ticket to Moscow, and like so many similar 'rags to riches' stories here in America, Marina took off with only $200 to her name and went to the capital to pursue her dream acting career.

Moscow and Theatre school

Marina held qualifying rounds in five most prestigious theaters university in Moscow and got accepted in all five theatrical schools, Moscow Art Theatre School - MXAT, Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, Higher Theatre school (Institute) named after M.S.Shepkin, The Russian University of Theatre Art (GITIS), All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S.A. Gerasimov (aka VGIK) For 6 years Marina Orlova studied by the Stanislavski's system in Moscow Art Theatre School - MXAT and her masters were the best actors and directors in Russia. Her performance diploma "Echelon"(Troop train) became a winner of the Moscow’s International Festival. In 2006, she graduated from University with honors and received a Masters Diploma in the specialty "Theater and Film Actress” and “Master of Theatrical Skill” The most striking theatrical feature in the life of the actress was her performance in an American play "Biloxi Blues", in which Marina played two roles Daisy and Ravenna. This theatrical play was very successful in Russia.

Professional career

Over nearly a decade, she has maintained a strong reputation as one of Russia’s most beloved celebrity actresses and a sex symbol. She first rose to international prominence when she performed in the leading role of Olga in all 236 episodes of the TV drama “Dear People”, which aired the extremely popular Russian network Rossiya1. Dear People controlled a 30.5% audience share on average, a massive figure that made her a national star. A 30.5% audience share means one in three Russians watching television during the show’s time watched “Dear People”. Millions more viewers in the Ukraine and the Russian speaking community also saw her performance week after week. That serial was watched by the mother of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and she became her favorite actress. All the newspapers were writing about it. On “Dear People” she performed alongside such Russian acting greats. The excellence of Marina’s performance led to attention from across the Russian media, who wanted to share the story of her phenomenal career with the entire Russian public. Marina’s leading role in Dear People brought her to the attention of one of Russia’s greatest living directors, Stanislav Govorukhin. She had performed a leading role in Maestro Govorukhin’s 2008 film “The Passenger” specifically by his request. “The Passenger” enjoyed huge national attention, aired at an honorary time slot on Channel 1, by far the most-watched channel in Russia. As one of the best films of the year, “The Passenger” was awarded the Grand Prize at the prestigious Moscow Premiere Festival, a long public festival held in the nation’s capital that celebrates Russian Cinema.

Marina Orlova has performed leading and critical roles in more than a dozen feature films and many Russian television shows that have been broadcast to the Russian-speaking community across the world. Due to her huge international popularity and acclaim within the Russian television industry, she was selected for a leading role in the Chinese- television series, “Master’s Last Secret”. “Master’s Last Secret” aired on China’s leading channel CCTV1 which guaranteed it millions of viewers in that entire Asia, including Korea and Japan. Series won multiple nationals awards, International award of Macao Film Festival and Golden Nymph Award in Monte Carlo. Also she had performed a leading role in two seasons of the teen drama series Bharvika District, one of the most-watched shows on the Russian channel TNT. In the film Irresponsible (Ohlamon), she played the Cinderella character in a modern-day Cinderella story that was watched by nearly one in ten Russians, by audience share, an unquestionably successful production. She had played the main villain, Lisa, in Always Say Always, which aired on Rossiya1 in prime time due to the stature of the series as one of the most beloved crime drama serials in all of Russia. These leading roles are only a handful of the achievements of Marina’s outstanding career as one of Russia’s most renowned actors.

Her performance was so valued for the production that the producer of Bhavika had to decrease the salaries of other actors in order to meet her requested compensation.

In June 2012, she was awarded the Russia’s Favorite Award, in nomination "favorite actress". The award celebrates prominent figures in Russia who had achieved their renown because of excellence in their chosen profession. Marina Orlova had garnered the Russia’s Favorite Award because of her performances that had elevated her to the front of public attention. It is clear that many of the productions she had performed leading roles in or starred in had been exceptional international successes, and she had been widely recognized as a top actor by the most powerful producers in the entertainment industry.^[1]^[2]

Sex symbol

Marina Orlova was often described by major publishers as one of the sexiest women alive. After her role Barbie in the movie "Under Cover" Marina became a real sex symbol in Russia. In that movie she danced striptease without a double. On multiple occasions and for the longest time Marina was offered to be photographed as a "sexiest celebrity" in the many men's magazines such as Maxim, Playboy, FHM. It was a huge sensation when Marina Orlova was featured on the Maxim magazine. Title of the article was called "Marina Orlova Without Cover" in reference to her movie. It created a wave of discussions, articles and her appearance defiantly increased her fan base. She has been publicly named as a "sex symbol" by many prestigious publishers and experts. During the shooting of the feature film "Weekend", director Stanislav Govorukhin described Marina Orlova as "immensely sexual", saying that he found it "difficult to film the scene with immensely sexual, beautiful young woman, where Aleksandr Domogarov had a hard time putting letter in her cleavage. We had to do 15 takes because he was getting distracted by Marina's sexuality." ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7] ^[8] ^[9] ^[10] ^[11] ^[12] ^[13] ^[14] ^[15] ^[16] ^[17] ^[18]

Filmography

2016 Hello! I'm a producer of Woody Allen - Christina
2016 Headgame
2014 The Treehouse
2014 White Crows
2013 Weekend
2013 Not So Young
2012 Undercover - Barbie
2011 Always Say Always -7 - Lisa
2011 The Golds - Tatiana Lipkin
2010 Interns - Episode, Episode 6
2010 Margosha - Svetlana, a three-day temporary secretary in the editorial " MF " (Season 2), with 219 Series - assistant in the department of "Fashion" (Season 3)
2010 The last secret of the Master - Elena
2009 Kremlin students - Nick
2009 Female winter - Olya
2009 Barvikha - Tatiana Lipkina, the main role
2008 Hipsters - Komsomol
2008 Urgent Room 2 - Tatiana
2008 Relatives (Ukraine) - Olga Kuznetsova, the main role
2008 Cursed Paradise 2 - Rose
2008 Passenger - Nina Markovna
2008 Visyak - Olya
2007 Matchmaker - Nastya
2007 All the boys are calls Kostya
2007 Ohlamon - Light, the main role
2007 The Art Model - Anna, niece ladies
2007 Gromovy. House of Hope - translator Larissa
2004 Samara-gorodok - student

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