A native of the capital and a successor to the well-known creative dynasty in our country (father Anatoly Nikitin is a Soviet director, and mother Tatyana Odemlyuk is an actress) - Ekaterina Anatolyevna Nikitina - is known to the general public for her brilliant film works in the series “Secrets of Palace Coups” (2000) and the series The Moscow Saga (2004). It is interesting that the actress made her film debut at the age of eleven, starring in her father's picture "After the World War."
The popular theater and film actress - Ekaterina Nikitina - today has a lot of film works behind her, however, the fame of the year 2000 and 2004 is still unsurpassed in her career. An interesting fact is that there are not many artists in our country who have a MGIMO diploma as confirmation of their second higher education.
Short biography of Ekaterina Nikitina
On July 18, 1977, the future theater and film actress appeared in the capital of our country. Since the artistic environment in the family fully contributed to the development of Katya’s creative abilities, she, of course, was provided with the appropriate start-up. As a child, she was actively involved in music and dancing, and at the age of eleven she made her debut on the set in her father's film project "After the World War."
Studying in high school with an in-depth study of English, Nikitina in the tenth grade becomes a free student of the acting course of Anatoly Romashin at VGIK. In 1997, she successfully graduated from the university and continued her education at MGIMO in the paid department.
An interesting fact from her creative biography is that Ekaterina Nikitina, in the framework of the international project Moscow - Berlin, played in the play Woe from Wit, going on stage with Yuri Lyubimov and many foreign actors.
Despite the first experience of behavior on the set that Nikitina received in her father’s picture “After the World War” and the subsequent short film “Ordinary Tale”, filmed as a student, her role in the movie “Mysteries” should be considered her real film debut palace coups. " Here she played an important historical character - Elizaveta Petrovna. Due to the difficult financial situation in the country and the industry, the picture was very tight in the budget, and therefore was shot for a long time and with great obstacles and problems. The filming began in 1995, and the film was released only in 2000.
From this moment, the actress began to enjoy great popularity. She was recognized by passers-by on the streets, and reporters asked for an interview. And then the filmography of Ekaterina Nikitina began to replenish with the following films: “Why do you need an alibi?”, “Women in a game without rules”, “The Moscow Saga”, “City Romance”, “Spare Instinct”, “Payback for Sins”, “Seal of Solitude”, "Witching Love", "Vorotilov", "Margosha", "Once Upon a Time in Rostov", "The Law of the Stone Jungle".
