Actress Lyudmila Novikova, Russian viewers and theatergoers know more like Mila Novikova - so she prefers to call herself. Despite her youth, the girl has already managed to work in the theater and in domestic cinema, as well as try her hand as a screenwriter and producer.
Biography Facts
About the childhood and youth of Lyudmila Novikova, very few facts are known. She was born in Moscow, at a very difficult time for our country - in August 1991 (August 5). It is known that in the summer the girl was sent to the village to relatives, where she had a friend Olga, with whom they were very close friends. When at 18, Mila found out about the early death of her friend, she realized: at that moment childhood ended.
After school, Mila Novikova entered the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) at the Faculty of Journalism, specializing in television and radio journalism, in 2014 she received a bachelor's degree. And since the girl studied at the evening-correspondence department, she devoted her free time to theater education.
First, she was trained at the School of Drama of the Russian director German Petrovich Sidakov, receiving in 2012 a diploma "Drama Theater and Film Actor". At this School, German Sidakov applied to his students the system of training and education for directors and actors. Its meaning is that a group of student directors closely interacts with a group of student actors, improvising, gaining experience and knowledge directly in the process of preparing performances of different genres and content. At the School of Drama, Lyudmila Novikova played such roles as Sarah in the play by A.P. Chekhov's "Ivanov", Nastasya Filippovna in the play "The Idiot" by F.M. Dostoevsky and others.
Among the theatrical acting works of Mila Novikova of this period, one can also single out the entreprise solo performance "Memoirs of Edith Piaf" directed by Pyotr Vishnevsky.
In addition to the School of Drama, Mila Novikova acquired acting skills in the theater workshop of Klim (Vladimir Klimenko), opened at the experimental theater "Practice". In the end, the girl realized that for a serious acting career you need to get a serious education, and entered the famous "Pike" - Boris Schukin Theater Institute - on the course of Vladimir Anatolyevich Sazhin.
Theater work
By the time she graduated in 2018, Lyudmila Novikova was already a fully-fledged actress who played a fairly large number of roles in theater and cinema. Among her theatrical works, one can note the role of Viola - Caesario in the play "Twelfth Night" based on a play by V. Shakespeare. This performance was staged by director Vladimir Mirzoyev at the Courage Theater in 2017.
In addition, Lyudmila Novikova collaborated with the Partizan Theater, created by the young director and theater figure Donatas Grudovich, whom Mila met in the Praktika theater. In the Partisan Theater, Novikova played in the performances "Bullet Collector" directed by Ruslan Malikov (She) and in the performance "FUCKINGAMAL" of Donatos Grudovich himself.
Movie work
The filmography of actress Mila Novikova begins in 2011, when she starred as a correspondent in the unfinished film "Sasha is alive!". This was followed by numerous invitations to shoot, and the actress participated in one or more films every year. In 2012, these were the roles of Lucy Chigis in "The Rose of the Farewell Winds" and the whores in the short film "Whore"; in 2013, Novikova played a major role in the film "One Way Out", and also starred in the role of Alice in "The Explosion Point" and the role of Masha in "Craftsman". The year 2014 was especially fruitful for the actress’s film career: filming in six films - “Transit”, “Ment-in-Law-9”, “Mediator”, “Practice”, “Temptation”, “Translator”.
In subsequent years, the actress starred in such films as “Bound Feelings” and “The Sun as a Gift” (2015), “Love as a Natural Disaster” (2016), “Light from the Other World” (2018). In the movie "Day of Reckoning, " Novikova played the main role of Katie (2017).
Producer and screenwriter
A young and energetic actress is in constant creative search. So, in 2013, she wrote the script herself, produced the film herself and starred in it in the title role. We are talking about the short film "One Way Out", directed by Vsevolod Aravin, the music was written by Andrey Krotov. The scenario is very tragic and philosophical: two friends blame each other for the death of their third girlfriend, and each of them considers herself innocent. But all these disputes do not lead to anything - a person can no longer be returned.
About the actress
Actress Mila Novikova plays diverse roles in cinema and theater, but most of all she likes negative characters. By her admission, she would like to play all the villains of the world and the universe. Along with experiments in creativity, Mila is constantly experimenting with her appearance: the actress appears before the audience either as a brunette, then as a blonde, then grows her braids, then makes a super-short “male” haircut. Mila speaks English and Spanish, leads an active lifestyle: she is engaged in snowboarding and martial arts, horseback riding.
