The Russian theater and film actress - Ekaterina Rednikova - is one of the few representatives of her profession who have received recognition both at home and abroad. The geography of her foreign film works has American, English, Lithuanian, and even Turkish "registration".
Over the twenty-five-year creative career, Ekaterina Rednikova was noted by many major and minor roles in the cinema. However, the actress herself distinguishes from the whole variety of film works that were associated with various genre projects (from melodramas to thrillers), only three: the crime drama "Home", the picture "A Gift to Stalin" and the series "Hindu" - which, in her words, "have become a pleasant exception among uninteresting scenarios."
Biography and filmography of Ekaterina Rednikova
On May 17, 1973, the future “Russian Sharon Stone” was born in an intelligent metropolitan family (father is a senior researcher and mother is an economist). Due to the shyness of the girl, her mother took her to audition for a film studio, and from the sixth grade she enrolled in a drama club. This is what predetermined Catherine's future professional career.
After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Rednikova entered GITIS, and after graduation she was distributed in the capital's theater "Et Cetera". Here she made her debut in the play "Beyond the Horizon" with one of the main roles. Then, for several years, she went on stage in three more theater projects, until the period of calm associated with the cinema came. In the role of a theater actress, she was later marked by only one production in the theater "Empire of Stars" in the middle of the "zero".
The first cinematic experience Ekaterina Rednikova received on the set of the comedy film "Womanizer", when she was not yet seventeen years old. And then two years later there was an episodic, but characteristic film work in the film "Abyss, circle seven." The next four-year period was associated with several projects, including the American one. And the first fame came to the actress in 1995, when the movie "Young Lady Peasant" was released, where she played the role of Nastya's maid. This film project was nominated for “Nika” in six categories and received prizes from the following film festivals: “Golden Knight”, “Kinoshok” and “Literature and Cinema”.
And then came 1997 and the premiere of the cult film "The Thief" in which she, along with Vladimir Mashkov, played the main female role. Since that time, Ekaterina Rednikova has become truly famous, she was recognized on the street, asked to give an autograph. For this film work, Catherine received "Nick" and "Golden Aries".
And a year later there was a film work in the American project "Visa to Death" and departure to the USA for permanent residence. During this period, she was noted for filming in a number of episodic roles, after which there were film works in the films "Russians in the City of Angels" and "Border Blues." In the future cinematic career of Ekaterina Rednikova, foreign film works began to regularly replenish her filmography.
In general, among the following list of film projects with her participation, the following deserve special attention: “Saboteur” (2004), “Nine Months” (2006), “Present to Stalin” (2008), “Hindu” (2010), “Hugging the Sky” (2013), "The Family of the Maniac Belyaev" (2014), "Run!" (2016), Blue Rose (2017), Boomerang (2017), Swallow (2018), and Ahead of the Day (2018).