Mila Avgust

Mila Avgust was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Her mother is a dressmaker and her father is a construction worker. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union her family moved to Moscow where she enrolled in a school theater group. At the age of fifteen she regularly played in school plays and won the poetry readings competition performing Elizabeth's monologue from the play "Mary Stuart" by Schiller. She finished school and entered the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute also known as Vakhtangov School where she studied for three years. As a Vakhtangov student, Mila played several roles such as the White Queen (Alice in Wonderland), Queen Margaret (Richard III), and Duchess of Marlborough (The Glass of Water), Blanche Dubois (A Streetcar Named Desire). Then she continued her education at the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute) of the State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia where she performed the reading of H. H. Munro's "the Schartz-Metterklume Method" and played the role of poetess Kaleria in Maxim Gorky's play "Summerfolk". After graduation she continued to display her love of the theater while also beginning new pursuits in screen acting. Having played a number of roles in TV productions including a leading role in TV series "Queen of the Game" Mila wrote a script and directed the feature dramatic comedy «What a New Year!», in which she played one of the leading roles. In 2022 Mila played the role of Mary Duvall in performance "Santa Barbara. A living sculpture by Ragnar Kjartansson", created especially for GES-2.