Yuliya Pozhidaeva

Yulia Pozhidatva is a Russian actress known for her roles in series "Undine" and "The Wedding Ring" was born in Moscow, Russia. She showed her intellect when she was young and at the age of 15 finished the tenth and eleventh grades with an accelerated schedule. Yulia had no desire to attend technical college as she always dreamed of being an actress and in 1998 Yulia was accepted to the famous Vakhtangov Theater Academy in Moscow. There she attended the class of M. A. Panteleeva. Her acting career began while she was still in the Theater Academy when she was chosen for the role of "Mashka-orphan" in a new stage production of the well known Dostoevskyy play "Uncle's dream", directed by V. Ivanov at the Vakhtangov Theater. At the same time, Yulia also made her debut on the silver screen where she had a cameo role in the short film "And it was night" directed by Elena Zhigaeva. In 2002 ( The year she graduated from the Theater Academy as an 'Actress of Theater and Movie') Yulia played her first role as "Masha Shubina" in the feature film "Secret sign"(8-series thriller as TV version) by Boris Durov. After graduation, she was accepted to the troupe of "Class Theater" where she played lead roles in performances like: "Dunno", "Treasure Island", "Bremen's Musicians", "Woe from Wit", "The Captain's Daughter", and "The Three Musketeers". The young actress achieved wide fame in 2003 after the released of the series "Undine", where she played the lead role of "Alyona Panchenko", the dolphin trainer in Dolphinarium. A year later, she had continued success in the second part of the series "Undine 2: On the crest of a wave". Then she played in popular television series such as "Aleksander Garden 1, 2, 3", "Doomed to Become a Star", "Bigwigs 1, 2" and a number of other TV series. Her big break came in 2008 when Yulia was offered the lead role of "Nastya Lapina" in the series "The Wedding Ring". The project started in November 2008, on the Ukrainian TV channel "Inter", and in June 2009 Russian channel "1" began to show it as well. This Mystic-melodramatic series gained her a lot of fans and continued for three years. Yulia's participation in these highly rated television series made her one of the most well-known actresses. In 2011, she was featured in the Jubilee issue of a calendar produced by the Tatiana Mikhalkova's "Russian Silhouette" Fund. In 2012 Yulia appeared twice on TV show "Want to Know" as the host. In her spare time, she likes to read, dance, sing, go bike riding and ice skating. Her hobbies include painting and sculpting clay figures.