Anna Taratorkina

Anna Taratorkina was born in Moscow 8 October, 1982. She was born into a distinguished family of actors, and the cultural background of the family undoubtedly shaped her creative personality. Anna's father, Georgiy Taratorkin, was the classic Raskolnikov ("Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky) of the world cinema. Her mother, Ekaterina Markova (the daughter of writers of Siberian origin), contributed to the Russian theatre and cinema as a drama actress but also is famous for her prose, scenarios, memoirs as a writer. The very atmosphere of her domestic up-bringing offered so much to be thankfully inherited by Anna. Anna's decision to follow her parents' path was not an easy and not the most obvious one. She finished her secondary education in one of the most prestigious and authoritative Moscow schools. Due to her linguistic skills she could have become an expert in foreign languages. Her additional schooling experience in England and her fluent French spoke in favor of a linguistic career. And it was the matter of conviction and personal choice that Anna entered the Schepkin Higher Theatre School in Moscow. Anna has taken part in almost 40 films in the most of which she played leading characters. Around 20 roles have been performed by Anna in the Russian Academic Youth Theatre and in other theatre projects staged in Moscow and widely shown throughout Russia and abroad (i.e. in The performances she took part in were repertory as well as non-repertory. Anna has also been involved in the radio broadcasting, and she frequently appears in the media sharing her creative attitudes and impressions in response to the public interest in her work. Anna is a wide-range actress. Among her characters one can come across an aviation officer and the wife of Alexander Pushkin, a private detective and a military sharp shooter, a caring mother and a charming romantic lover. The virtues of devotion, and the contradictions of ambition, the readiness to serve, and the longing for understanding, - those are the features of Anna's various heroines.