Childhood and youth
Shpitsa Ekaterina Anatolyevna was born in Perm on October 29, 1985. At that time, the parents of the future actress lived in the town of Inta, Komi Republic, but the girl could not wait to be born, and she was born a month earlier, when her mother was visiting her grandmother Katya.
The actress’s father is Ukrainian by nationality, worked as a miner, and later opened a furniture manufacturing business, and the girl’s mother is a criminal lawyer. Now Ekaterina says that her character turned out to be a parent, an easy-going and sociable person. She sings well, loves art, and these same interests were passed on to her daughter.
When Katya turned 13, the family moved from Inta to Perm, where the girl went to school with in-depth study of the French language. Then Spitz began to show acting abilities. The school organized a French-speaking theater, where the young artist performed in productions in French. Katerina liked going on stage, so she entered the KOD theater studio. After 2 years, she was transferred to the senior staff of the New Drama Theater. These were the best years of formation and enrichment of experience. The actress toured, played leading roles, and did what she loved.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa in childhood
After school, from which Ekaterina graduated with a gold medal, she entered the local institute of culture in the acting department of the Faculty of Arts. At the same time, the girl became a student at the Faculty of Law of Perm State University. At that time, her mother also got a job on the teaching staff of the university. Despite her excellent certificate, Katya was forced to take all the exams in the competition, which she did brilliantly and got into the budget department.
Catherine’s love for the stage manifested itself in childhood, but at first she dreamed of being not an actress, but a pop singer. Spitz only needed one casting for the Star Factory project, at which Alla Pugacheva refused the young artist. When the movie star later spoke about this, rumors appeared that the long-standing casting gave rise to a conflict with Pugacheva. In fact, Katya is grateful to the Prima Donna: if not for this refusal, she would have sung as the opening act for Alla Borisovna or other celebrities, instead of finding herself in cinema.
A series of random necessary acquaintances
The actress Ekaterina Shpitsa herself claims that she did not dare to dream of a big movie. Having won the Perm beauty contest in 10th grade, she wanted to build a career as a fashion model. However, her small stature did not allow her to realize her dream. But at this competition she met the capital’s photographer Alexei Vasiliev, who subsequently offered to participate in the casting of models in Moscow.
At the prom, the girl met the host of the event, showman Alexander Koryagin. He invited Katya to work in a Perm nightclub as a Go-Go dancer. Ekaterina Shpitsa’s height and weight allowed her to perform wonderful pirouettes on stage, so it was difficult not to notice her.
Personal life
In 2011, Ekaterina Shpitsa married professional stuntman Konstantin Adaev, who moved to Moscow from Kazan. A year later, on February 25, the couple had a son, Herman, and a month after giving birth, Ekaterina returned to work. The actress did not have maternity leave as such even before the birth of the child. During pregnancy, she managed to star in the Metro project, despite the fact that the film had many scenes that posed a danger to the performer. But the artist understood that a stellar period had begun in her creative life, which she did not want to miss.
Later, she often left her son Herman either with her husband or with her mother. But even such a reverent attitude towards children on the part of the spouse did not save Spitz’s marriage. The couple divorced, but for what exact reasons, Katya did not say. The father maintains a warm relationship with Kostya and participates in raising his son. Today the boy is passionate about music, he sings in a children's choir.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa in a swimsuit
Soon Ekaterina began to be seen more and more often together with director Marius Weisberg. The press started talking about the actress’s new romance, but by 2015 this relationship also ended. After this, Spitz stopped sharing details of her personal life with fans and journalists.
The artist’s silence gave journalists a reason for rumors. In the spring of 2016, after a social event in the format of a ball, Ekaterina was credited with two novels at once - with a certain Austrian millionaire Michael and TV presenter Igor Vernik. The reason for the rumors was Spitz’s banal consent to dance.
Like many stars, the actress maintains a page on Instagram, posting pictures from charity events, joint photos with her child and friends. But selfies in a swimsuit, from parties, portraits of mysterious fans and other attributes of celebrity life are difficult to find in Catherine’s account.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa and her husband Ruslan Panov
October 2021 was remembered by Shpitsa for two events. Katya played the main role in the play “Romeo and Juliet” on the stage of the “Bulgakov House”. And after the premiere, she received a marriage proposal from her beloved man. Ruslan Panov is a personal trainer and general director of a network of fitness clubs, he is 3 years older than Ekaterina. The actress’s new romance became known only in the summer, when the lovers appeared at social events.
The couple did not formalize their relationship for some time. According to Ekaterina, a stamp in her passport is not her goal; it is much more important to feel happy next to her loved one. However, in February 2021, the lovers still went to the registry office and officially registered their status.
One of the artist’s hobbies is interior design and everything related to creating home comfort. For one of her birthdays, Ekaterina asked her chosen one for a construction laser level as a gift. Ruslan was very surprised by his companion’s request, but gave her this instrument.
Popular film roles
Ekaterina Shpitsa has played in thirty-six films to date - isn’t this a success for the young actress? Not all the roles were the main ones, but the girl clearly enjoys the love of both directors and viewers.
Katya (TV series “Katya: A War Story” and “Katya 2”)
The film was released in May 2009 and took third place in the rating among residents of the Moscow region.
The plot is simple, there are no military battles or battles, just a love story of seventeen-year-old boys, which they carried through the entire war. The film starred many famous actors: Boris Shcherbakov, Elena Yakovleva, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Dmitry Nagiyev and others.
Alice (Metro)
Domestic disaster film. A leak has formed in the roof of the Moscow metro tunnel, right in the place where the Moscow River flows. After some time, it makes a hole, a partial collapse occurs, and nothing can hold back the water. An electric train at full speed crashes into a blockage, some of the passengers die, the rest are saved as best they can.
Katya plays a young girl Alice, suffering from asthma, who is trying to survive with a group of several passengers. Literally in the last moments, when water practically flooded the entire tunnel, the heroes are rescued.
During the filming of the film, Katya was pregnant, but hid it from the director.
“Metro” received the “Nika” award for the best work of operators, and also received six nominations for the “Golden Eagle”, “Georges” and “Nika” awards.
Masha (“Poddubny”)
The heroine of Catherine is a circus gymnast and the lover of the strongman Poddubny, played by Mikhail Porechenkov.
Katya had to master several rather complex tricks on the trapeze, and this was literally a month after giving birth. By the way, while my mother was filming, infant Herman was waiting for her in the trailer under the supervision of her selfless mother-in-law, who agreed to roam with her daughter-in-law and baby during filming. But what could be done - Katya was breastfeeding the child and had no intention of transferring her to artificial nutrition.
According to Poddubny’s biography, he had one beloved woman - his wife, and he was friends with the circus performer Masha. But the director decided to make her lover and wife in one person.
Lyubov Shevtsova (“Young Guard”)
In the twenty-episode series, Ekaterina played one of the underground members, Komsomol member Lyuba Shevtsova. The young Avengers from the Young Guard fought the Nazis as best they could. The Germans did not even suspect that they were dealing with teenagers. Unfortunately, the organization was declassified and most of the guys were executed.
The series has many historical inaccuracies. In particular, Lyuba Shevtsova never performed in a cabaret and did not behave as cheekily and provocatively as was shown in the series.
Victoria ("Crew")
Another disaster movie. It is not a remake of the Soviet film of the same name, but similar features are clearly visible in the plot.
Katya played a flight attendant (supporting role). She really likes the main character, the pilot Gushchin (Danila Kozlovsky), but their sympathy is not mutual. But the flight attendant Andrei is in love with Vika, but she does not see a real man in him because of his position, until the crew got into a difficult situation and Andrei had to risk his life to save people.
Movies
In the biography of Ekaterina Shpitsa, a chain of random events turned into a happy pattern, which ultimately made the provincial girl a popular and recognizable artist.
As a 10th grade student, Katya won a beauty contest, judged by musicians from the Scorpions group. The future screen star saw a special meaning in this event: her zodiac sign is Scorpio, so she believed in her luck and was right. The winner received the opportunity, according to the terms of the competition, to participate in the selection for a role in the video of the creative team. But she failed to take advantage of the chance: at the time of the competition she was still 16 years old.
Then she had to meet the photographer who was selecting the models. The podium was not for Spitz - his height of 160 cm (with a weight of 49 kg) did not allow him. At the graduation, the showman who was hosting the evening drew attention to her. Having reached the age of majority, Katya went to work as a dancer in one of the city clubs.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa and her mother
In 2005, another unforeseen accident happened to Ekaterina. During an unscheduled visit to Moscow, Katya was offered to participate in a casting for modeling agencies, which Shpitsa successfully passed.
Ekaterina transferred to distance learning at both universities and moved to Moscow. She stayed for some time to work at the agency as a model-dancer, after which she got a job in a production company with Yuri Chernavsky, where she was a choreographer-tutor and singer, and taught English.
Later, thanks to her acquaintance with the studio manager, Ekaterina Shpitsa played in the musical comedy “Adam and the Transformation of Eve,” where her heroine Eva is a young provincial girl who conquered the capital.
Then Ekaterina Shpitsa expanded her filmography with work in the film “Circus Princess”. In 2007–2009 she starred in the TV series “Matchmaker”, “Blue Nights”, “Legends of Witchcraft Love”. She took part in the filming of the film “Travelers” together with Alexei Kortnev.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa and her son
Serious fame came to the actress with her role in the film “Katya”, where she played the main role. A year later, she took part in the filming of the series “Moscow. Central district - 3".
In 2012, the actress embodied the image of the protagonist’s girlfriend in the sports drama Poddubny and the passenger of the fatal train in the blockbuster Metro. Then she played Kolyan’s boss in the comedy series about fellow countrymen “Real Boys.” In addition, the performer appeared in the melodrama “Angel in the Heart” in a duet with Lenkom star Dmitry Pevtsov.
2014 brought the actress participation in the popular comedies “A Gift with Character” and “Christmas Trees,” where her partners were comedy artists: Mikhail Galustyan, Ivan Urgant, Sergei Svetlakov.
In the fall of 2015, the long-awaited premiere of the film “Crew” took place, in which Ekaterina Shpitsa played the role of a flight attendant. Director Nikolai Lebedev shot the disaster film in IMAX format, and “Crew” became the second film in the history of Russian cinema to be shot in this format. The film features stars of the modern Russian film industry - Vladimir Mashkov and Danila Kozlovsky.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa and Oksana Akinshina
In 2021, another joint film by Ekaterina Shpitsa and Danila Kozlovsky was released - “Friday”. The bright comedy tells the story of how people from all walks of life end their work week. Nastasya Samburskaya, Aristarkh Venes, Pavel Derevianko and many others also played in the film. In the film, Ekaterina plays a sweet and gentle girl Vera, but at the premiere of “Friday” the actress amazed fans in a completely different way - Spitz appeared in a daring dress with a completely transparent top.
Some fans believe that this is why Ekaterina entered the top 100 sexiest Russian women. The list was published in Maxim magazine. But not everyone liked the look of the artist; critics began to appeal to her age and status in society. Be that as it may, the dress attracted mass attention to the actress.
Tigran Keosayan's Katya played the main role in the detective series "Actress". In the film, the hero of Vladimir Kapustin investigates the murder of a movie star who was once his wife, and then left her family and went to Moscow. Spitz's character appears on screen in flashbacks of sorts, for which the artist compared this work to David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa and her father
Ekaterina received the leading role of a blonde secretary in the comedy “Graphomafia” with Gosha Kutsenko, Aristarkh Venes and Margarita Shubina. The film tells the story of a publisher who plans to murder a writer in order to appropriate his work.
In the crime action film “The Yellow Eye of the Tiger,” the story centers on four friends who dream of getting rich by mining amber. However, the hero of Pavel Priluchny, who 15 years later became an FSB employee, intends to stop the businessmen. Sergei Puskepalis and Agniya Kuznetsova played the father and wife of the main character, respectively. Spitz plays the role of the daughter of a city official, an underground artist.
Soon work began on the film “Fools,” where Ekaterina Shpitsa played along with Vera Sotnikova and Anna Ardova. The performers tried on the images of employees of a travel agency going through difficult times. The film was never completed.
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Sunny comedy “Crimean Bridge. Made with love!" in the spirit of Leonid Gaidai’s films, she appeared in Catherine’s acting collection in 2018. The performer easily fit into the star cast of the film, which also included Artem Tkachenko, Sergei Nikonenko, Yuri Stoyanov, Irina Rozanova.
“Polar” is the name of the adventure comedy and the northern town where Mikhail Porechenkov’s character comes to hide from his accomplices. The bandit encounters the local “lads” and shows the provincials how real “tough guys” work. The main roles, in addition to Spitz, went to Ivan Okhlobystin and Vladimir Epifantsev.
In 2021, the science-fiction thriller “Starmind” (“Gemini Project”) was shown about the search for a place of residence for humanity beyond the Earth. Vyacheslav Lisnevsky sat in the director’s chair for the film, who had previously only been a cameraman, albeit for quite well-known films: “The Rook”, “The Elusives”, “Beyond Reality” with Antonio Banderas.
Ekaterina Shpitsa played a member of a space expedition engaged in delivering oxygen generation equipment to a distant star.
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Actress Ekaterina Shpitsa
2019 gave the actress the opportunity to try her hand at the thriller genre. She played the main character of the family drama “#Detki” about the life of modern teenagers. Among the performer’s other works is the role of investigator Vera in the detective story “The Old Guard.” The artist continued filming in the next parts of the series in 2021.
The actress does not like to be compared with her colleagues: she believes that in addition to appearance, the uniqueness of a person, his personality, is also important. But fans continue to find similarities between Catherine and other actresses (for example, Alexandra Bortich) and even actors. Particularly attentive people call Spitz “the female version of Brad Pitt.”
The actress is not only known for her performing achievements. She participated in the “Together” project and also appears at socially significant events. So, in December 2021, she visited Geneva, where she spoke at the UN convention.
Career blossoming
Ekaterina embodied the image of the figure skater in the comedy film almanac “Yolki 1914”, in which she starred in the company of Ivan Urgant, Anna Khilkevich and Sergei Svetlakov. TV viewers liked this New Year's funny story, one of the directors of which was Timur Bekmambetov, they noted the trademark humor from the TNT channel and the excellent acting. In this film, Ekaterina Shpitsa showed the comedic side of her talent, which her fans could not help but recognize.
Ekaterina Shpitsa in the film “Yolki 1914”
In the film adaptation of one of the most tragic and heroic episodes in the history of the USSR’s struggle against the fascist invaders, the events of which took place in the town of Krasnodon, Ekaterina played the role of Lyubov Shevtsova. We are talking about the series “Young Guard”. Critics called Katerina’s performance the main disappointment of the year: “Spitz deprives the series of the main thing – youth.”
Still from the series “Young Guard”
In 2015, with the participation of Ekaterina, the melodramatic comedy “Bet on Love” was released, in which the actress shone in the company of Andrei Burkovsky, Andrei Smolyakov and Hovhannes Azoyan, and the comedy drama “Breakfast at Dad’s”, where she played the role of a young mother.
The year 2021 gave Catherine’s fans several paintings, in each of which the actress showed her skill and unique gift of transformation. In the film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, which describes the feat of a civil aviation pilot and his crew, which was compared to the famous film of the Soviet period “Crew,” the actress played the role of the foreman of a team of flight attendants, and her partners were Danila Kozlovsky, Sergei Gazarov and Vladimir Mashkov. Despite the fact that many viewers could not resist comparing the two “Crews” (1979 and 2021), and some critics noted the presence of Hollywood cliches, the film was received warmly due to the emotional impact of the actors.
Still from the film “Crew”
Viewers also remembered Ekaterina in the 2021 comedy film “Friday,” where she again met with Danila Kozlovsky, who this time appeared in the guise of a bon vivant. And in the fantastic detective thriller of Latvian filmmakers “What No One Sees,” Ekaterina played the role of a nurse and collaborated with Evgeniy Tkachuk and Arnis Licitis.
Ekaterina Shpitsa in the comedy “Friday”
The following year, the premieres of the films “Ark” and “Graphomafia” took place, and in the detective television film “Actress” by Tigran Keosayan, Ekaterina played the role of a famous artist, whose murder is investigated by Vladimir Kapustin’s hero. Also in the story of love, betrayal and human envy were Alena Khmelnitskaya, Vladimir Menshov, Igor Zolotovitsky and Yuri Stoyanov.
Shows and TV projects
The popular actress was often invited to television. In 2013, Spitz hosted the sports show “Vyshka,” in which celebrities tried their hand at difficult diving. In the same year, Ekaterina herself took part in another sports program - she became a partner of figure skater Maxim Stavisky in the show “Ice Age”.
The training turned out to be difficult for the actress; during the next rehearsal, she fell from the support onto the ice. Due to the fall, the girl lost consciousness and was taken away in an ambulance. Later it turned out that the actress did not have a traumatic brain injury, and Spitz returned to the set on the same day in the evening edition of the program. The couple's performances were quite successful, and at the end of the 9th stage, Ekaterina and Maxim received the audience award.
The same year, the actress again appeared on the popular TV show. Ekaterina took part in the “Exactly Exact” transformation competition and played the role of Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne, Zaz and other famous personalities.
Interesting Facts
- Katya is into fitness and loves to go to the gym, where she prefers cardio exercises. In general, he loves dynamic sports, as well as paintball, climbing wall, and kayaking.
- He works on weekdays and frees up weekends to spend time with his son. Loves an active lifestyle. Together with the child, they often visit the trampoline center, labyrinths, and rollerblading.
- Like any woman, she loves shopping, but she always knows exactly what she wants and doesn’t spend a lot of time shopping.
- Loves Thai massage. My dream is to go to Bali and go to massage therapists every day.
- With a height of 160 cm, she now weighs 45 kilograms. As a student, I weighed 52. For my first film role I had to lose weight and go on the Kremlin diet for a whole month. Then for several years I adhered to Michel Montignac’s system. Now he adheres to a separate diet and tries not to eat meat, especially in spring and summer.
- Dreams of playing Juliet.
Ekaterina Shpitsa now
Ekaterina wants and loves to work hard. The number of films for her is a measure of success, and money is a means to brighten up life, which, as we know, is boring. The directors, as if hearing Spitz, offer her participation in a number of diverse projects.
One of the new products of 2021 in the actress’s repertoire was the series “Casanova”, in which Ekaterina reincarnated as a negative, but very bright heroine. Sergei Ugryumov, Anton Khabarov, and Svetlana Khodchenkova also played in the film about a Soviet marriage swindler. The premiere took place on Channel One.
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Ekaterina Shpitsa and Mikhail Shchepkin in the show “Dancing with the Stars”
Ekaterina Shpitsa does not hide that she loves starring in New Year’s stories. Films about how heroes' dreams come true during the chiming clock are not uncommon in her repertoire. She decided to support the tradition in 2021. In January, the comedy “City Day” was released, in which, in addition to Shpitsa, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Olga Dibtseva, and Igor Khripunov starred.
And already in January 2021, viewers saw the actress in a new role: Spitz took part in the “Dancing with the Stars” project. Choreographer Mikhail Shchepkin became Catherine’s partner and mentor. Their rivals were Yanina Studilina, Sergey Lazarev, Igor Mirkurbanov and other stars.
First serious role
How long did Ekaterina Shpitsa, whose biography began in a provincial town, walk along the thorny path to fame? The series “Circus Princess”, stretching over 115 episodes, brought fame to the young actress. Katya initially auditioned for the role of the main character, but director Alla Plotkina saw another character in her - the disabled girl Masha. Of course, Spitz was upset, but after reading the script, she was inspired by the character and played it flawlessly.
The series was released in January 2008 and brought unprecedented success to Catherine’s creative treasury. After the premiere, the girl began to be invited to other respectable projects.
Filmography
- 2009 – “Katya”
- 2010 – “Frozen Dispatches”
- 2011 – “Katya. Continuation"
- 2012 – “Angel in the Heart”
- 2012 – “Metro”
- 2013 – “Kuprin”
- 2013 – “Real boys”
- 2014 – “Yolki 1914”
- 2014 – “Poddubny”
- 2015 – “Young Guard”
- 2016 – “Crew”
- 2016 – “Friday”
- 2017 – “Actress”
- 2017 – “Ark”
- 2018 – “Crimean Bridge. Made with love!"
- 2019 – “#Children”
- 2019 – “Star Mind”
- 2019 – “Young Wine”
- 2019 – “Polar”
- 2019 – “The Old Guard”
- 2020 – “Casanova”
- 2020 – “The Old Guard. Fire trail"
- 2020 – “The Old Guard. Farewell party"
