Yana Troyanova: personal life and filmography

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This article will tell about the personal life of the modern Russian actress Yana Troyanova, about her creative path and success in cinema.

Birth Story

Troyanova Yana Alexandrovna was born in 1973 in the Urals in the city of Sverdlovsk, which since 1991 became Yekaterinburg. Yana Troyanova has Polish noble roots of the Mokritsky family, but at birth, Yana's mother gave her a fictitious surname and patronymic. The girl's father's name was Viktor, but in the birth certificate the mother entered the middle name Alexandrovna, in honor of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.

Childhood of the actress

After the birth of Yana, her mother left the girl to be raised by her grandmother and immediately returned to work in order to provide the family with income. Five years later, her grandmother died of cancer, and this was the first big loss in Yana's life.

During school, Yana Troyanova did not show excessive zeal for learning and was a hooligan, because of which her relationship with teachers was very strained. But, despite this, since childhood, she was predicted to have a creative career, since the girl from an early age began to show amazing creative abilities for acting.craftsmanship.

Youth actress

After school, young Yana Troyanova moved to Vladivostok with her mother. At twenty-three, she entered the Faculty of Philosophy at the Ural State University. After six years of studying philosophy, she finally decided to connect her life with cinema and theater and entered the theater institute in Yekaterinburg.

During her studies at the institute, Yana had already begun her work as an actress on the stages of the theaters "Kolyada-theater" and "Teatron". When it came time to write her theses, Yana decided to leave the institute, as she realized for herself that in this profession she did not need a diploma, and she could impress the viewer with her uniqueness even without a supporting document.

Her first marriage was very unsuccessful, Yana's ex-husband often took a bottle, which poisoned her life. Once, being intoxicated, the ex-husband severely beat Yana, and after being discharged from the hospital, she left him in her arms with a small child. Today, Yana is married to Vasily Sigarev, a famous director and playwright.

Yana Troyanova: filmography

The filmography of the actress is filled with incredible roles in which she was able to open up, passing through pain, tears and laughter. As the actress herself noted more than once, acting in a movie is not just a job that needs to be done. Before each role, the actress passes through her own soul every heroine, her emotions and feelings.

The first film with Yana Troyanova called "Volchok" was released in 2009, in which she had a chance to play a dysfunctional mother,abandoned her child. In her interviews, the actress noted that she had to do a tremendous amount of work on herself to play this role, as it was very difficult for her to accept and convey to the audience the emotions that were embedded in the script.

In 2011, the drama "Live" was released, which also became Yana's hard moral work on herself.

In 2012, the film “Ko-ko-ko” was released in the title role with Yana Troyanova, where she played the role of provincial Victoria.

Also in 2012, another film with her participation is released - “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari”.

In 2015, many viewers were struck by the film "The Land of Oz", in which Yana Troyanova played the main role.

In 2016, the sitcom "Olga" was released on TNT, in which the main role was assigned to Troyanova. The simple, but at the same time extraordinary heroine Olga Terentyeva, who pulls the whole family on herself and finds herself in various, sometimes funny, and sometimes dramatic situations, instantly fell in love with the viewers of the series.

In 2016, another film called “In Short” was released, in which the role of the registrar of the registry office was played by the magnificent Yana Troyanova.

Troyanova's filmography in 2017 was replenished with two more films: the short film "Z" and the series "Kids".