Actress Aurelia Anuzhee: creative biography and personal life

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Latvian actress Aurelia Anuzhite (Zuperskaite, and after her second marriage - Anuzhit-Laucina) was born in August 1972 in the town of Panevezys in the north of the Lithuanian SSR. A small Lithuanian town in Soviet times was a developed manufacturing center. The actress's dad worked as an engineer.

Study

Aurelia Anuzhite graduated from the Panevėžys evening school in 1990. Then she entered the theater department of the Lithuanian Conservatory, now the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she studied until 1991. She continued her education at the Latvian Academy of Culture at the department of theatrical film art from 1993 to 1997

Actress career in theater and cinema

After graduating from the Riga Academy of Culture, Aurelia Anuzhite served in a young creative team - the New Riga Theater, founded in 1992. At the same time, she actively acted in films.

Theatrical roles

• The role of Nina Zarechnaya in the classic theater production of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's play "The Seagull" (1997).
• The role of Christina in the play "The Maiden Christina" based on the fantasy book of the same name by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade (1997).
• Malvina in a children's fairy tale based on the work of Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy "AdventuresPinocchio" (1998).
• Pindaciš in the cult play by the famous Latvian playwright Rudolf Blaumanis "Days of tailors in Silmachi" (1998).
• The role of Chloe Coverly in the comedy "Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard (1998).
• Shen in Bertolt Brecht's The Kind Man from Sichuan (1998).

Film roles

Aurelia's film career began in 1992. She starred in the title role in the frank thriller "Spider" by film director Vasily Massa, based on the script by Vladimir Kayaks. The erotic episodes of the film allowed the audience to appreciate the impeccable beauty of the young actress. In the same year, she played a small role in the musical melodrama Chopin's Nocturne by Ephraim Sevel. The popularity and love of the audience brought the actress the main role in the television two-part drama "The Secret of the Family de Grandchamp", based on the novel by Honore de Balzac "The Stepmother", directed by Ada Neretniece.

In 1993, Aurelia Anuzhe starred in the film-parable "And I saw in a dream" by the Kazakh director Leyla Aranysheva. The drama film co-produced by Finnish and Estonian filmmakers with the participation of the Latvian actress "The Gray Light of November" directed by Anssi Mänttyari was released in the same year.

Three years later, in 1996, the actress played the lead role in the crime drama Maidens of Riga, a joint film project between a Latvian and Norwegian film studio. Tape directed by Emil Stang Lund.

Drama Follow me! (1999) by film director Una Celna was the next step in the film career of the actress. In the same year, she received a leading role in the Russian film "Flowers from the Winners", shot bydirected by Alexander Surin based on the famous novel by Erich Maria Remarque "Three Comrades".

In 2000, Aurelia Anuzhe played the main role in the drama "The Mystery of the Old Council". The film was shot at the Riga Film Studio by the Latvian film director Janis Streič.

The following year, the actress played in the Lithuanian TV series "W altz of Fate" (2001), playing the main female role. She also got the lead role in the Latvian drama The Sweet Taste of Poison directed by Inta Gorodetsk, based on the novel The New Master and the Devil by the Latvian writer Janis Jaunsudrabins.

The Russian-Latvian multi-part historical film about the work of intelligence officers during the Second World War "The Red Chapel" by Alexander Aravin, released in 2004, brought the actress recognition from film critics and a new wave of audience interest.

In 2005, Aurelia starred in the English adaptation of Robert Harris' detective novel Archangel. And a year later, she took part in the filming of the Latvian melodramatic series "Not Knowing the Price" directed by Inta Gorodetsk.

The appearance of the actress harmoniously changed if, at the beginning of her career, a naive, pretty girl looks at the viewer, from which she breathes spring and the sun. Then in later photographs, Aurelia Anujite embodies the classic image of the female northern European beauty.

In 2007, the actress starred in the comedy melodrama of her compatriot Roland Kalninsh "Bitter Wine" and the art-house comedy "January Night" ("Summer Madness" - the second name of this tape) of the Austriandirected by Alexander Khan. On this, Aurelia's acting career ended - until a certain time or forever, time will tell. The actress herself did not give any comments regarding her future artistic destiny.

Actress's personal life

Personal life Aurelia Anuzhe never advertised too much. Her first husband was the famous Latvian theater and film actor Ivars Kalnins. Their fateful meeting took place on the set of the film "Secrets of the de Grandchamp family" produced by the Riga Film Studio in 1992. At that time, Ivar had been married for about 20 years and had two daughters. But a strong love for a young red-haired beauty from Lithuania changed all the further life plans of the artist. Aurelia is 24 years younger than Ivar, but the big age difference did not stop a deep love relationship from starting, which later led to marriage. Kalnins divorced his first wife and married Aurelia, the same age as his eldest daughter.

The civil union of Ivar and Aurelia was sealed by the rite of church blessing of marriage - a wedding in the Catholic Church. The couple settled in Riga. At that time, they were rightfully considered the most beautiful well-known couple in Latvia. Aurelia received Latvian citizenship and a job at the New Riga Theatre. In 1994, the couple had a son, Mikus. But their life together lasted only 7 years. In the late nineties, the couple broke up.

The second husband of Aurelia Anuzhe was businessman Andris Laucins. After marriage, the actress took a double surname: Anuzhite-Laucina. In this marriage, Aurelia gave birth to three more children: a sonYazep and two daughters (Agatha and Maria). Andris has two more children from a previous relationship. Now mother of many children Aurelia devotes all her time to raising children and caring for the family.