Zoya Berber: biography
Russian actress Zoya Berber has held pride of place as one of the sexiest women in the country for many years. Zoya woke up famous after her role as Lera Oborina in the youth sitcom “Real Boys”
. But few people know that the star’s creative biography did not begin so enchantingly. The girl searched for her path for a long time, tried many professions, trying to find herself, and did not even dream of connecting her life with cinema.
Zoya Berber as a child with her mother
Zoya Rudolfovna Berber was born in Perm on September 1, 1987 in the family of a jazz musician. The girl was named after her grandmother, and the rare surname was inherited from her grandfather, a Greek by nationality. Zoya Berber's mother has German, Jewish and Tatar roots.
The future star of Russian cinema studied well at school, showing theatrical abilities from childhood. Not a single school production was complete without Zoe’s participation, but nevertheless the girl did not want to become an actress. Oddly enough, Zoya’s dream was to become a mechanic.
Dreams are dreams, but after school Berber applied to the choreographic school and immediately changed her mind, withdrawing her application for admission. It’s hard to believe, but the recognized beauty, who has model parameters (Zoya’s height is 174 cm, weight – 50 kg), had complexes about her appearance. The girl openly disliked her figure.
Actress Zoya Berber
Soon Zoya chose the specialty of a tailor, enrolling in the Perm College of Design. After graduating from college, Berber sewed a denim jacket herself, which she wore to her prom.
The girl didn’t even think that her biography would be connected with cinema. After graduating from college, the future celebrity entered the Perm State Institute of Art and Culture on the course of Boris Milgram.
early years
The future actress was born on September 1, 1987. Her hometown is Perm. Zoe Berber's father is an engineer and also a small business owner. The actress's mother, Julianna, ran videocassette stores. When Zoya was seven years old, her parents filed for divorce. But, according to the actress, she never suffered from a lack of attention from her parents, despite the fact that they no longer lived together. Zoya's pedigree includes ancestors of German, Jewish origin, as well as Tatars and even Greeks. For example, she inherited her unusual surname from her paternal grandfather.
From childhood, the girl was distinguished by her artistic abilities. Zoya attended a music school and studied in a children's theater group. After receiving her certificate, the girl studied at the Perm College of Design. She then decided to continue improving her acting skills and entered the Institute of Culture and Art in her hometown.
Zoya starred in the video for the song “At sunset a macho cries” performed by Oleg Gazmanov
Movies
In 2009, Zoya Berber took part in the “Space of Directing” festival, and a year later she played in the play “The Bullet Collector”. In 2010, Zoya Berber will try her hand at the casting of the multi-part project “Real Boys” on the TNT channel. The girl passed the audition and was approved for the role of Lera.
Zoya Berber in the TV series "Real Boys"
For the sake of filming, Zoya took a sabbatical leave for a while so as not to be limited by her studies while filming was going on. The parents did not like this idea, but their daughter had to come to terms with her decision.
In the new series, Berber played a girl from a wealthy family who falls in love with a simple guy Kolya. The actress’s partner was Nikolai Naumov, a famous actor and fellow countryman of Zoya. The first season of “Real Boys” was an incredible success, and the aspiring actress overnight became a star of the youth audience. Directors began offering new roles in TV series.
While there are no film masterpieces in Zoe Berber’s filmography, the young actress burst onto the Olympus of Russian cinema so quickly that she is able to stay there for a long time. Berber gained fame at the age of 24, but, according to the actress, such popularity did not affect her in any way. Zoya is modest in this matter, believing that she is still far from being loved by all the people, but she plans to move on and develop further.
Zoya Berber in the TV series “Farza”
A new successful project in Zoe Berber’s cinematic biography was her work in the Channel One series “Fartsa”. This film was appreciated not only by the audience, but also by film critics, and the role of Nadya Vostrikova allowed the actress to declare herself at a serious professional level.
Berber's filmography also includes roles in music videos. In 2014, the actress starred in the resonant video “Russian Plantain” by the Russian group 25/17. The collaboration continued, and in the next video, entitled “New Virus,” Zoya Berber tried herself as a singer. During the filming of the video, the actress was accompanied by Russian actor Alexander Lymarev.
The actress often stars in projects on the TNT channel. Zoya was remembered by the audience for her participation in the show “Improvisation”, where she performed as a guest of Pavel Volya.
According to Maxim magazine, Zoya Berber took 5th place in the “Sexiest Girl in Russia” category, which surprised the actress herself. Many men admire the girl’s shape, but the actress herself is in no hurry to appear naked in front of cameras, believing that such methods of achieving audience interest are unacceptable.
The film actress does not pay attention to such interest in her person. On the Instagram network you can not often see Zoya in a swimsuit, and there is no question of candid photo shoots. Berber is one of the few celebrities who was included in the rating of Maxim magazine solely due to her natural femininity and attractiveness and without erotic photos to her credit.
Zoya Rudolfovna Berber was born on September 1, 1987 in the city of Perm in the family of an engineer father and a geologist mother. Despite technical specialties, both parents of the future actress were not deprived of creative potential, studied at a music school and managed to pass on their love of art to their daughter. The girl received the name Zoya in honor of her grandmother, and the unusual surname came from her grandfather, a Greek by nationality. When Berber was still in elementary school, her parents decided to separate, but despite the divorce, the girl did not feel deprived of her father’s attention, and besides, she was very much taken care of by her mother’s new chosen one, who became her stepfather, and this was the leading artist of the Perm Academic Theater. From her youth, Zoya stood out for her artistic abilities, studied in a dance studio, participated in all significant school performances, but despite this she did not even think about the acting profession. After graduating from school, Berber entered a technical school, where she received the profession of a tailor. It was during her studies, with the help of one of the teachers, that Zoya decided to try herself in the artistic field. After graduating from college, Zoya went to the Perm Institute of Culture, from where, at the age of 23, she received an invitation to the comedy series “Real Boys”, managing to brilliantly perform a sketch without words.
The sitcom turned out to be a very popular Russian series. Back in 2010, as an ordinary student, Berber successfully passed the screen test and was cast in the role of Lera Oborina, the beloved girl of the central character of the film Kolyan Naumov. It is noteworthy that many of Zoya’s classmates were invited to the casting, but it was in her that the producers spotted the future Lera, a glamorous, dim-witted blonde from a wealthy family. According to Berber, she is nothing like her own heroine, so this role became a serious challenge for her. Zoya coped with it superbly, becoming the main star of the promoted project and managing to attract her mother Julianna for filming. By a lucky coincidence for Zoya, the first two seasons of the series were filmed in Perm, and only in the third season did the events move to Moscow, where the actress herself eventually moved. Berber has been playing the role of Lera Oborina for ten years, having managed to get along with her own heroine, despite all personal differences. This role in 2015 brought Berber a nomination for the main television award “TEFI” for best actress. Zoya compares the sitcom that made her a star with the cult American analogue “Friends”, and predicts a further happy fate for the Russian project. In the same 2015, Berber played in the mini-series “Farza”, where her co-star was the star Alexander Petrov. The film was shown on Channel One and gained significant popularity, a considerable part of which went to Zoya personally.
Having gained all-Russian fame, Zoya Berber rushed to conquer the theater stage with renewed energy. In 2011, the 24-year-old actress played the role of Sofia Pavlovna in the classic production of “Woe from Wit” at the Perm Theater-Theatre. Having moved to Moscow, Berber began to join the Moscow State Theater of Sergei Bezrukov at the Ermolova Theater, playing, in particular, in such famous performances as “The Adventures of Fandorin” based on the novel “Leviathan” and “Caligula” by Boris Akunin. Zoya also began working at a dubbing studio, taking part in the dubbing of the film “Strangers on the Block.” In 2021, Zoya made her debut as a TV presenter of the “Sports Moment” program on the Moscow 24 channel. A year later, on another channel, “My Planet,” the program “One Day in the City” began airing. At the same time, Zoya continued to master new roles, beginning to star in the series “Retribution” (2019) on the NTV channel, again in the leading role. Around the same time, another show with Berber’s participation, “Nine Lives,” appeared on the Rossiya-1 channel.
Being a television star, Zoya Berber is increasingly beginning to look towards big cinema, where she makes her debut role in the comedy film “New Year's Renovations” (2019) based on the story “The Brotherhood of Margarita” by Eduard Topol. A year later, the comedy “Real Boys vs. Zombies” (2020) was released, which takes place in Berber’s native Perm. In the series “Project “Anna Nikolaevna”” Zoya also got the main role.
Officially, Zoya Berber is not married, but for several years the actress maintained a relationship with screenwriter Alexander Sineguzov, with whom she gave birth to a daughter, Nadya, in 2015. The actress admits that she would dream of having three more sons.
Personal life
Zoe Berber's personal life is shrouded in mystery. The actress does not comment on relationships with men. For a long time, Zoya Berber was credited with an affair with her partner in the series “Real Boys” Nikolai Naumov. But the actress did not comment on rumors about her personal life, neither confirming nor denying this information.
Zoya Berber and Nikolai Naumov
Later, the star confirmed that there was still an affair on the set, but Zoya’s chosen one was not Nikolai Naumov, but the screenwriter of “Real Boys” Alexander Sineguzov.
The girl did not advertise this relationship for a long time. However, in March 2015, news appeared on the Internet that Zoya Berber was pregnant, but the actress flatly refused to reveal the name of the child’s father. Actor Anton Bogdanov, Zoe Berber’s colleague in “Real Boys,” said in an interview with the press that the father of the child is Alexander Sineguzov. Thus, Bogdanov dispelled speculation that the actress’s pregnancy is fictitious and that this is just a PR stunt to promote the series “Fartsa”.
Zoya Berber's common-law husband, Alexander Sineguzov, worked as a screenwriter in KVN before the series “Real Boys.” On June 29, 2015 it became known that Zoya Berber became a mother
adorable baby. The daughter was named Nadezhda.
Zoya Berber and Alexander Sineguzov
The actress believes that family is the most important thing in life, and quarrels that arise during communication with a loved one cannot become an obstacle to happiness.
“In family life, nothing can be left to chance; you need to constantly talk about everything, even about little things. We need to find the reason for the constant quarrels,” says the actress.
Zoya Berber
The actress considers herself a lazy person, claiming that she has more than once had to struggle with a lack of hard work. According to Berber, laziness is a strong enemy, a negative factor that leads to problems in the future, for example, depression, which can affect a person’s general condition.
Theater and cinema
Berber manages to combine work in the theater, television, and cinema with his family. In her hometown, the artist performed on the Scene-Molot stage. Later she was offered a role at the Perm Academic Theater in the play “Woe from Wit”.
Zoya Berber during filming
In the capital of Russia, Berber was invited to the Yermolova Theater. There she, in the company of famous actors, performed in the production “Demon”. After some time, she appeared on the MGT stage. In this cultural institution she performed in the play “The Adventures of Fandorin”.
It is noteworthy that Berber never completed her studies at the institute, since the creators of the multi-part film “Real Boys” announced that it was necessary to move to the capital to continue the filming process. Initially, the artist had great doubts. She consulted with many teachers, since she had only six months left before receiving her diploma. At the same time, the producer still managed to persuade the actress that an invitation to artists from the provinces could only come once in a lifetime. By the way, the directors immediately realized that it was Berber who would get the main role, since she coped with the task without any problems during the casting.
Despite being busy filming, Berber was never able to give up higher education, which she dreams of receiving outside the Russian Federation , since she does not see a single suitable institution in her homeland.
Already in 2021, Berber began collaborating with a personal agent, whom the star immediately warned that she intended to “work like a horse.” She demanded this from her assistant as well.
It is noteworthy that so far the celebrity’s filmography does not have any masterpieces, but she managed to very quickly break into the Olympus of domestic cinema. Fame had no influence on the actress.
Zoya Berber during filming
In 2011, Berber tried his hand at dubbing. In company with such talented artists as Nikolai Naumov, Anton Bogdanov and Vladimir Selivanov, the celebrity took part in the dubbing of the film “Strangers on the Block.”
A little later, Berber was given a role in the dramatic project “Farza”. Film director Yegor Baranov was not delighted with the actress, and invited her to his project only in order to show the public the girl’s “bitchiness”. Moreover, in all likelihood, he changed his mind after working with the artist on the same set. By playing the proposed role, Berber managed to break the stereotype that actresses can be hostages to one role.
Zoya Berber - actress
Comedy film “Happiness! Health" describes the actions that happened during several wedding celebrations at once. In this project, the artist was entrusted with the main role. So, she portrayed the image of a girl who did not have money for the holiday of her dreams. In the action film “Retribution,” the celebrity got the role of the wife of a GRU special forces soldier. According to the plot, the heroine could not stand the constant business trips of her chosen one, so she left him for a businessman. The artist also took part in the creation of the melodramatic project “Nine Lives”. This time her on-screen husband was Alexander Samoilenko. The star herself played the role of a dreamer who, in order to save her beloved father, decided to marry another man.
It should be added that the film maker’s track record also includes clips. So, in 2014, she took part in the creation of a video for the composition “Russian Plantain” by the musical group “25/17”. After this work, the parties decided to continue cooperation, so the artist appeared in several more projects. After some time, the actress also starred in the video of the popular domestic performer Oleg Gazmanov .
In the spring of 2021, the premiere screening of the film “The Anna Nikolaevna Project” took place. It is noteworthy that the film was released on the KinoPoisk . According to the artist herself, she was glad that the film was not shown on television. Here the celebrity appeared before the audience in the form of an android policeman who joined one of the provincial district offices.
Zoya Berber now
The actress continues to participate in filming today. In 2016, she spoke about the filming of the new season of the sitcom “Real Boys”
. According to the film actress, the new episodes of the favorite television series will be bright and funny, and viewers will see smart and charismatic characters in the new episodes.
Actress Zoya Berber
Many TV viewers have repeatedly stated that they are fed up with “Real Boys,” but the actress herself reacts harshly to criticism of the film. According to Zoya Berber, only a few actors get a chance to get into such projects, subsequently forgetting about the difficulties of public perception.
“When you start acting in such projects, over time you forget about the problems that arise during the work. If you ask most actors whether they will participate in filming again, many will say “yes.” Over the 7-8 years of filming the sitcom, I haven’t felt tired,” notes the actress, commenting on her work in the popular series.
In 2021, Zoya Berber spoke about her second pregnancy. Following Lera Oborina, her heroine, Zoya also found her happiness, and after some time she had a child. Nevertheless, the actress does not believe in prophecies, but is not surprised that the events presented in the series “Real Boys” are transferred to her real life.
Zoya Berber
“I don’t believe in prophecies, especially since in the series I have a boy Misha, and in life I have a girl Nadya. Being a mother is a great happiness, incomparable to anything in the world. At the same time, I wouldn’t want to concentrate only on the role of a mother, so immediately after the birth of my daughter, I began to receive new offers. And today, when I am in demand in cinema, I would not like to take another break, even if it is connected with such a happy event. All I need today is more work,” said Zoya Berber.
Still, numerous fans of the television series appreciate the work of the film actress, especially noting her participation in the new seasons.
