Honored Artist of Russia Maria Viktorovna Anikanova is the owner of one of the most amazing destinies among colleagues in the creative workshop in our country. Today she continues to actively act in domestic cinema and realized in professional activities.
Behind the shoulders of the famous Russian theater and film actress - Maria Viktorovna Anikanova - at present, there are already many roles played on the stage and film sets. The Honored Artist of the Russian Federation at the time, radically changed her career, giving preference to acting in return for sports achievements.
Short biography of Maria Viktorovna Anikanova
The future theater and cinema star was born on June 20, 1973 in Moscow in the famous Soviet sports family. Parents gave their entire life to speed skating and figure skating (although their father was not an athlete, but a doctor of the USSR national figure skating teams), an aunt and grandfather with Maria’s grandmother. It was the ice that gave Anikanova Jr. herself enormous strength, continuously engaged in figure skating from three to sixteen years old.
And her sporting achievements were more than justified by the expectations of her titled relatives, because she managed to skate more than one season with future world champions Gezalyan and Chernyshev under the leadership of Tatyana Tarasova and subsequently Gennady Akkerman, being a member of the youth national team. True, there were costs in the form of poor performance at school, but parents did not pay much attention to this because of the emphasis made by all on the sports future of the girl.
Today, many people ask Maria how justified her choice in favor of theater and cinema became, considering that she could be perfectly realized in figure skating. But Anikanova herself believes that she did everything right, since for a sports career she did not have enough burning desire or a "light bulb". After all, only with full dedication is it possible to get a really serious result. That is why, she did not begin to search for a partner in pair figure skating, when her established duet with Peter Chernyshev broke up because of his departure to continue his sports career abroad.
And then, Maria Anikanov was awaited by the amazing fate of the theater and film actress, whom she had never thought about before.
Artist career
The photo of a beautiful young woman could not ignore the Mosfilm file cabinet, Mary was regularly called for screen tests. At first, the girl, referring to excessive sports, refused, and after Chernyshov's departure abroad she still decided to appear before Solovyov. The first tests in her life were amazing. Some kind of hat and cigarette in hand (and this is for a non-smoking athlete) were the necessary surroundings when photographing, but it was in this way that she was approved for her debut role in the film “House under the Starry Sky”.
The first filming experience was more like a summer adventure when everything was unusual and exciting for her. It was then that Sergey Alexandrovich managed to convince the future actress to enter the VGIK and devote his life to an acting career. And then there was study at VGIK, transfer to the legendary "Pike", which she graduated in 1995, and work in the troupe of the Sovremennik Theater.
However, the artistic fate of Mary was not serene either. There was a period when she threw the stage and left after her second husband in the United States. However, that marriage did not become the limit of her dreams, and in 1998 she returned to her homeland, and Galina Borisovna Volchek again took her to her.
Like many colleagues in the creative workshop? The "nineties" became a period of calm for Maria Anikanova in her cinematic career, and only with the onset of the "nulls" her filmography begins to replenish, which is presented by the following film works: "Tomorrow under the starry sky", "Rescuers. Eclipse", "Hunt for Manchurian deer", " Two Fates - 2 ", " Hot Ice ", " A Woman Without a Past ", " Love and Death of Karenina Anna ", " Dolls ", " Sniffer ", " Martha Line ", " It Is Good to Dream, "When Cranes Fly South ", " KGB in a tuxedo ", " Parisian antique dealer ".
It is from the television series "Woman without a Past" (2007) that the actress’s popularity begins to grow unconditionally. The character of the strong-willed, strong woman who has lost her memory represented in the film became Anikanova's visiting card when she ascended to Olympus of cinematic glory.
A huge impression on the talented actress was made by her participation in one of the main roles of the multi-part film “The Waiting List”, where she was imbued with special respect for medical workers who “pass not only fate, but also human death”.
The last film work by Maria Anikanova is the film "Sniffer-3". The actress is aimed at actively participating in the filming of new interesting film projects and with the desire to further develop creative incarnations in this vast ocean.
