Olesya Potashinskaya: biography, work in the theater and cinema, personal life of the actress

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Potashinskaya Olesya is a Russian theater and film actress. Gained fame by starring in the tapes "8 1/2 dollars", "Zoya", "Take me with you", "Mistress Victory" and others. In the 1990s, she served in the theater "At the Nikitsky Gates" (performances "Poor Liza", "The Cherry Orchard", "The Killer", "Duck Hunt", etc.).

Biography

The artist was born in 1973, May 8, in Leningrad. Parents gave their daughter the name Olga, but since she did not like it, the girl from childhood asked everyone to address her as Olesya. At an early age, Potashinskaya was passionate about figure skating, and from the age of 9 she was engaged in puppet theater at the Palace of Pioneers in Leningrad.

The actress received her higher education in 1994 at the Moscow Art Theater School (workshop of O. Tabakov). Olesya Potashinskaya studied on the same course with S. Bezrukov, S. Ugryumov, M. Schultz and D. Yurskaya. After graduating from high school, she got into the troupe of the theater "At the Nikitsky Gates". For 6 years, the artist managed to play Adeline in the production of "Fan-Fan Tulip", Lisa in "Poor Lisa", Vera in "Duck Hunt", Sonya Marmeladova in "Killer" and Varya in "The Cherry Orchard".

Beginning of film career

The debut picture with the participation of Olesya was the 1996 family comedy "Cafe" Strawberry ". Each of the 164 episodes has a completed storyline. The actress appeared in seven episodes. In 1999, she played the female lead of Matilda in the crime comedy $8 1/2. At the same time, Olesya Potashinskaya starred in the first season of the Kamenskaya detective story in the image of Inna Litvinova, an employee of the Research Institute. Then the artist played episodic roles in the tragicomedy "Moscow" and the third season of "National Security Agent".

In 2002, Olesya appeared as the main character Nika Zharko in the sports mini-series Lady Victory. At the same time, the actress starred in the drama "On the Move" (role - Irina) and the fourth season of "Streets of Broken Lights" (Valentina). In the short film of the TNT channel "Winter Spring" she played one of the contenders for the heart of the protagonist, and in the detective action movie "Stiletto 2" - Elena.

Further film roles

In 2005, Olesya Potashinskaya, whose photo is below, starred in the Belarusian-Russian film "Man of War" as Natasha Alisova. The plot for the drama was the novel-chronicle by Y. Kolesnikov. Then the actress got episodic roles in the melodrama "We'll be on" you "and the detective story" Morozov ". In 2007, Potashinskaya played the main character Christina in the film adaptation of A. Orlov's stories "I am a detective." In the melodrama Take Me With You, she appeared as the Frenchwoman Nicole.

In 2009, the actress Potashinskaya Olesya playedKolesnichenko Lin in "Barvikha". In 2010, she starred in the images of two key characters - Fedotova Victoria in the film "Zoya" and accountant Eli in the comedy "Real Boars". In parallel, the artist played in the films "Children under 16" and "Biker". In 2011, Olesya appeared in the ironic detective "Amazons" (the role is Olga Arkhipova) and the series "Golden", which became a continuation of "Barvikha".

The owner of the oil business Larisa Karpovich in the action movie "The Watchmaker" became her next heroine. In 2013, Olesya Potashinskaya starred in the crime comedy Gena-Concrete (the role is an assistant to the leader of a political party), the melodrama Deadly Beautiful (Professor Chatskaya Inga) and the drama Peddler (Elena). In the comedy Graduation, the actress got the role of Anastasia's mother, and in the second season of the detective Freud's Method, Nina Grigorieva. The last picture with her participation today is the crime drama “Moscow. Central District”, in which she played Frolova.

Private life

Potashinskaya Olesya had an affair with actor Boyko Yaroslav. In 2001, the artist first became a mother. She named her daughter Dusey. In 2003, Olesya became the wife of Dmitry Yampolsky, a restaurateur, four months after they met. Soon the actress became pregnant and gave birth to her husband's daughter Sophia. Once Olesya said that Dmitry knew how to surprise her, starting with serenades and an orchestra under the window and ending with love notes on the pavement. Nevertheless, in 2010, Potashinskaya and Yampolsky divorced for an unknown reason. About your current marital statusthe actress does not speak.