Anna Bondareva
- Actress
Anna's first cinema part was in French alongside legend of the big screen Jean-Pierre Cassel, in Bunker Paradise, a film by Stefan Liberski, co-produced and distributed by Luc Besson's 'EuropaCorp' Studio. Shortly afterwards she was cast in Thierry Klifa's comedy Family Hero, alongside stars such as Gerard Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve and Claude Brasseur.
Cassius Matthias's film Entropic of Cancer starred Anna as lead. The trilogy had its world premiere at the 3rd Minghella Film Festival, and was then shown at the BFI (British Film Institute) in London and at Tribeca Film Center in New York. Anna also starred in Lotus Eaters, a British bohemian drama directed by Alexandra McGuinness.
The turning point came in LA during a campaign for Police sunglasses with George Clooney, when Jackie Pearls, one of George's agents, noticed Anna's acting potential. On returning to Paris Anna entered the Acting International school directed by Robert Cordier.
She appeared in the big-budget production Fortress of War, a drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. She then got the lead female role in the romantic comedy Stealing Belmondo, playing a Muscovite art-dealer.
It was Paris where her modeling career took off immediately with great success. She arrived in France in 1996 after winning a beauty contest in her native Minsk, where she had finished an English-specialized gymnasium and music school. She was taken on by some of the best agencies worldwide : Elite, Select, IMG and Marilyn, among others.Her Beausoleil Eyewear advert came out in French Vogue.Anna has worked for great fashion houses, including Christian Dior, Chanel, Kenzo. She became the face of the major British brand Marks and Spenser; and she did beauty campaigns for Lancaster, Nina Ricci lingerie.
Studying piano from the age of 6, Anna continued her music education in the Paris Conservatoire and she became a member of Sacem (French Society of Authors and Composers). She has collaborated as a recording and performing artist with various musicians, singing in English and her native Russian language.
