Yuliya Snigir

Yuliya Viktorovna Snigir, née Siriskina (Russian: Ю́лия Ви́кторовна Сниги́рь, Сирискина; born 2 June 1983) is a Russian actress and model.[1][2]

Yuliya Snigir
At the closing ceremony of 20th Film Festival "Kinotavr" in 2009
Born	Yuliya Viktorovna Siriskina 2 June 1983 Donskoy, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Model, actress
Years active	2006–present
Partner(s)	Yevgeny Tsyganov
Children	1
Modeling information
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)

Life and career

Yuliya Snigir was born in Donskoy, Tula Oblast, Russia. She graduated from high school number 20 in Donskoy. Hoping to get a good education, she went to Moscow and entered the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Moscow State Pedagogical University (English department, specialty "English Philology").[1]

Snigir had to study and work at the same time to support herself financially. She was teaching English in the nursery school, when a friend showed photos of Yuliya to a representative from a Moscow modelling agency. While continuing her study program in University, Snigir became a successful model. She was offered a contract with a leading French jewellery brand and was planning to move to France when a casting-director saw her at the modeling agency and invited her to an audition. Her acting career started when she was accepted to the Vakhtangov Theatre Academy. Her cinematic debut was in the film The Last Slaughter, which was followed by Vaccine and Gloss.[1]

Her big break through came when she was offered one of the leading roles in the Russian sci-fi blockbuster The Inhabited Island (2008) and the sequel The Inhabited Island: Skirmish. Yulia became the face of L'Oreal in Russia, as well as Mexx clothing and Mexx perfume.[1]

She hosted the show Theory of Relativity on STS in 2009. In 2010 she became a TV presenter on the channel Petersburg – Channel 5.[2]

She appeared in film A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) alongside Bruce Willis. In the film, she played a Russian antagonist named Irina.[3]

In 2015, Channel One released a 12-episode historical television series Catherine the Great, in which the actress played the main role. In the same year she played in the romantic comedy film About Love by Anna Melikian.

She starred as Ekaterina Smokovnikova in the television miniseries Road to Calvary, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Aleksey Tolstoy. It aired on NTV channel in 2017. She also had a supporting role in the crime comedy Blockbuster by Roman Volobuyev in that year.

Filmography

Films

List of film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Last Slaughter	Angela
2006	Vaccine	Natasha
2007	Gloss	Model
2008	The Inhabited Island	Rada Gaal	Part 1
2009	The Inhabited island: Skirmish	Rada Gaal	Part 2
2010	Zaitsev, Burn! History Showman	leading
2011	Rose Valley	Maya
2011	Raspoutine	Dora
2012	Atomic Ivan	Tanya
2012	Kokoko	Natasha
2013	A Good Day to Die Hard	Irina	Billed as "Yulia Snigir"
2013	Polar Flight	Lyuda
2014	Freezer	Alisa
2015	Dark Planet	Rada Gaal	Bulldog Film Distribution
2015	The Land of Oz	Fifa
2015	About Love	Liza
2017	Blockbuster (ru)	Lena Vanina

Television

List of television credits

Year	Title	Role
2010	In the Forests and Mountains	Maria Gavrilovna Zaletova
2010	Doctor Tyrsa	Lisa
2010	Sky on Fire	Lisa Voronina
2011	Counterplay	Irina Kurakina
2011	I Will Never Forget You	Katya Alkovich
2014	What Begins Motherland	Natalya
2015	The Seventh Rune	Tatiana Ikonnikova
2015	Catherine the Great	Catherine II
2017	The Road to Calvary	Ekaterina Smokovnikova
2018	Bloody Lady	Saltychikha
2020	The New Pope	Ewa Novak

References

1. "Биографии звёзд на Cosmo.ru: Юлия Снигирь". Cosmopolitan. Archived from the original on 2012-03-02.
2. "Юлия Снигирь". Russia-1.
3. Anderton, Ethan (4 April 2012). "A Good Day to Die Hard' Finds a Couple of Male and Female Villains". firstshowing.net. Retrieved 6 October 2012.

External links

• Yuliya Snigir at IMDb