Svetlana Smirnova came from a small Tatar village to Leningrad in the early 70s with the sole goal of becoming an actress. A gentle, bright, charming girl was able to carry out her plans and win the love of millions of viewers with her talented acting.
Later, Svetlana Stanislavovna recalled that she really wanted to get out of poverty and achieve something in life. Of course, it was scary to suddenly find yourself in a huge city, with 20 rubles in your pocket.
Svetlana Smirnova. Photo: mtdata.ru
But the 17-year-old village girl was able to overcome the difficulties and successfully pass the exams at the State Institute of Music and Cinematography. She learned her experience and skills from the excellent teacher Zinovy Korogodsky.
Childhood and youth
The rising star of theater and cinema has many gaps in his biography that remain to be filled. It is known that Svetlana was born on July 5, 1985 in St. Petersburg, and is Russian by nationality. She spent her childhood and youth in the city on the Neva.
There are no actors in the Smirnova family, although there are plenty of famous namesakes. It is unknown when Svetlana decided to join the ranks of the famous actors the Smirnovs. Perhaps this happened at the age of 16, when she starred in an episode of the 3rd season of the series “National Security Agent”, where viewers saw the young artist in the role of Dasha Zakharova.
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Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva in childhood
At the age of 17, the girl entered a local humanitarian university, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.
Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva chose the Faculty of Arts and studied at the department of Zinovy Korogodsky. The St. Petersburg resident learned the basics of acting from director Vladislav Pazi, who worked closely with Alisa Freundlich. After receiving the diploma, Smirnov-Katsagadzhiev was included in the cast of the Theater of Generations, where Daniil Korogodsky, the son of Zinovy Yakovlevich, works as artistic director.
Finest hour
“Cop Wars” is a television project thanks to which actress Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva became a star. Thanks to charismatic characters and a twisted plot, the series managed to win the hearts of thousands of viewers. It is a kind of “fairy tale about good and bad”, told in a modern way. In this television project there is no strict division into positive and negative characters. Rather, he talks about living people, each of whom has advantages and disadvantages.
Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva joined the crew of “Cop Wars” already in the sixth season. Her character was liked by many fans of the series. Svetlana played the charming lady investigator Ksenia Maksakova. Her character is present in several seasons of the television project. The actress also brilliantly embodied this image in the spin-off “My Last Name is Shilov.”
Personal life
The actress prefers to remain silent about her personal life, but long-time fans of her talent know that Svetlana has long been married to her colleague Ruslan Katsagadzhiev, who appears on the stage of the Liteiny Theater. Together with her husband, she appears in the theater (the play “Life”) and in the cinema (“The Great”, “Pregnancy Test”, “Censor”).
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Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva and husband Ruslan Katsagadzhiev
Open sources say that Svetlana and Ruslan have not yet become parents: their work schedules are so busy that the spouses have not yet found a way to have children. But on Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva’s Instagram page there is a photo of the girl Diana, who in the comments is called the daughter of the actress. The artist keeps the intrigue and does not give explanations on this matter.
In her free time, she likes to visit the countryside and maintains excellent physical shape in the gym. With a height of 1.65 m, Svetlana’s weight is 42 kg. She maintains accounts on social networks, where she posts cute family photos and announcements of new projects. Svetlana is often compared to her colleague Anna Kovalchuk - there really is an external resemblance between the women.
Theater
Since 2005, Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva has been the leading actress of the loft theater, known for its rejection of the classical approach of dividing into hall and stage. The repertoire of the brainchild of Daniil Korogodsky includes the entire spectrum of genres, from epic to modernism, so the young artist transforms herself into Sophocles’ Antigone, then into Yulia Filippovna from Gorky’s play “Dachners,” or into the heroine of the play “Diseases of Youth” based on the work of the same name by Ferdinand Bruckner.
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Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva and her daughter
St. Petersburg Youth Theater and Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva’s native theater, joining forces, presented theatergoers with a bright performance “Far on the Island of Chad. Space of instinct." To play the role of the Cat, Svetlana required incredible plasticity and body language. The actress coped with the task, and regular visits to the gym helped her with this.
Roles in the plays “By the Law of Honor” and “Life” confirmed her status as the theater’s leading actress. Theater critics called the latest production a brilliant tragicomedy in the style of Kafka, and the artist’s work incredibly inspired.
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Born on July 5, 1985 in Leningrad.
In 2005 she graduated from the acting department of St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise (course of Z.Ya. Korogodsky, V. Pazi).
Since 2005 - actress of the Theater of Generations.
"Summer Residents" M. Gorky - Yulia Fillipovna (dir. Eberhard Köhler (Germany), Danila Korogodsky, Chris Bareka (USA) "Without Lear" based on the play by W. Shakespeare - Cordelia (dir. Eberhard Köhler (Germany) "Antigone" Sophocles - Antigone, Haemon, Messenger (dir. Eberhard Köhler (Germany) “Diseases of Youth” F. Bruckner – Lucy (dir. Adrian Giurgia (USA) “My beloved 2soffka” based on the play by Laura de Weck “Lieblingsmenschen” – Julia (dir. Eberhard Köhler) (Germany) “Zum-Zum” Laura de Weck - Alina (dir. Eberhard Köhler (Germany) “Light Bulb” - Blind (idea and production by Danila Korogodsky and Eberhard Köhler (Germany) “Far on Lake Chad. Space of instinct.” Joint project Theater of Generations and Youth Theater - Cat, Corpse Bride (idea and production by Danila Korogodsky and Eberhard Köhler (Germany) "Snow Maiden" N. Ostrovsky - Spring (dir. Valentin Levitsky) "According to the Law of Honor. Bloody pun" - Duchess (creative laboratory) " Hero of the occasion" - Varya (dir. Nikitenko)
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Movies
The active start of filming for Smirnova began in 2005, after graduating from university. She appeared in episodes and supporting roles in the top-rated TV series “Secrets of the Investigation,” “Friend or Foe” and “Highway Patrol.” At the beginning of her career, Katsagadzhieva had to act mainly in crime films and action films.
In March 2012, the action-packed film “Relative” premiered on the NTV channel. Svetlana got the leading role for the first time; she appeared on screen with Ruslan Barabanov and Vitaly Kishchenko. The heroine Katya, performed by Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva, turned out to be so bright and convincing that film critics burst out with laudatory reviews of the actress, noting the classic drama in her style.
The “Snipers” project turned out to be less successful. Love at gunpoint,” where Svetlana played the sniper Tanya, but the audience had no complaints about the artist’s performance.
Since 2011, Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva, together with Alexander Ustyugov, starred in the project “Cop Wars,” which consistently ranked first in film ratings. Fans of the series are accustomed to the actress, who plays Investigative Committee investigator Ksenia Maksakova from season to season. In 2013, viewers saw a spin-off project called “My Last Name is Shilov,” where the beloved heroine Ksenia Maksakova appeared again.
In 2014, Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva was involved in the action-packed serial films “Internal Investigation”, “Such Work”, “Pregnancy Test” and “Shaman”.
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Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva and Alexander Ustyugov
The following year, the artist from St. Petersburg pleased fans with her appearance in the top-rated TV series “The Great” about the life of Catherine II. The main character of the 12-episode drama was played by Yulia Snigir, and Svetlana got the role of the maid of honor of the Empress Anastasia Gagarina. Also in 2015, in October, the premiere of the 4-episode detective thriller “The Past Can Wait” took place on the TVC channel. This is a film adaptation of the novel “She’s Already Dead” by writer Victoria Platova. Smirnova played the heroine Tattoo.
And in 2016, series fans favorably received the film adaptation of Tatyana Ustinova’s novel “From the First to the Last Word.” The 4-episode film received the same name, and Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva played her namesake, the publishing house secretary.
The main works of 2021 in the actress’s piggy bank were roles in the detective story “The Phantom of the District Theater,” where Svetlana played a theatrical prima, and in the melodrama “River of Memory” by Stanislav Nazirov. The first film is a film adaptation of Ustinova’s novel. In “River of Memory,” the artist starred in tandem with Stanislav Bondarenko and Philip Azarov.
In 2021, viewers saw the actress in the 11th season of “Cop Wars” and the series “Censor,” where she starred with her husband and colleagues Stepan Beketov and Karina Razumovskaya. The main surprise of the year for fans of Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva was her role in the project directed by Zinovy Roizman “Silver Forest”, which premiered in December on Channel One. The family saga about the time period of the 70s and 80s, in which a constellation of Russian actors appeared, became a rating project. The film stars Sergei Makhovikov, Maria Shukshina, Boris Shcherbakov, Andrei Ilyin and a dozen other cinema stars whose names are known in the post-Soviet space.
In 2018, Svetlana’s filmography was expanded with the films “Planting Season” and “Five Minutes of Silence. Return".
First roles
In 2000, Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva came to the set for the first time. Her filmography began with the series “Secrets of the Investigation.” The actress played in the fifth season of a popular television project; her character was the victim’s neighbor. The role of the debutante was episodic, but her performance impressed the director. Two years later, Svetlana starred in the continuation of the series.
Next, Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva played a small role in the third season of “National Security Agent.” Then she embodied the image of a minor heroine in the crime television project “Friend or Foe.” Crime drama “Redistribution. “Blood and Milk” with her participation did not make much of an impression on the audience and received muted reviews from critics. However, there were no complaints about the performance of the young actress who embodied the image of Ksenia Gracheva. The St. Petersburg State University graduate played a cameo role in the third season of “Highway Patrol.”
Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva now
In 2019, the actress starred in the new detective series “Trace of the Fox on the Stones” together with Evgeny Pronin and Alexei Vakulov. The main project of the year for her was the military drama “Corridor of Immortality,” in which Svetlana played Sofia Vishnevskaya, a Komsomol member who, together with her girls the same age, built railway tracks in besieged Leningrad. Later in an interview, the artist said that the invitation to the project was unexpected for her, and director Fyodor Popov made the decision about her participation very quickly, literally after the first auditions.
Now Svetlana is busy mainly in the theater. Fans have been eagerly awaiting news about her 2020 filming and performance schedule.
Filmography
- 2005 – “Secrets of the investigation – 5”
- 2006 – “Friend or Foe”
- 2011 – “Cop Wars – 6”
- 2011 – “Relative”
- 2012 – “Snipers. Love at gunpoint"
- 2013 – “My last name is Shilov”
- 2014 – “Such work”
- 2015 – “Great”
- 2015 – “Our Stranger”
- 2015 – “The past can wait”
- 2015 – “City of Special Purpose”
- 2016 – “River of Memory”
- 2016 – “The Phantom of the District Theater”
- 2016 – “From the first to the last word”
- 2017 – “Silver Forest”
- 2018 – “House with Black Cats”
- 2019 – “Corridor of Immortality”
- 2019 – “Sand Castle”
- 2019 – “Linden Blossom”
- 2019 – “Trace of a fox on the stones”
- 2019 – “Knight of Our Time”
- 2019 – “Room of Antique Keys”
- 2019 – “Tender leaves, poisonous roots”
