Evgeniya Brik

Evgeniya Brik (Russian: Евгения Брик, née Khirivskaya (Хиривская), 3 September 1981 – 10 February 2022) was a Russian actress, best known for playing Kalinka in the Belgian television series Matroesjka's.

Evgeniya Brik
Khirivskaya at the 2013 Odesa International Film Festival
Born
Evgeniya Vladimirovna Khirivskaya

(1981-09-03)3 September 1981[1]
Died10 February 2022(2022-02-10) (aged 40)
Occupation(s)Actress, radio host, child model
Years active2000–2022
Spouse
(m. 2006)
Children1

Life and career

Evgenia Vladimirovna Khirivskaya was born on 3 September 1981 in Moscow. She was named after her paternal grandfather Yevgeny Abramovich Krein, who was a famous journalist.[2] The actress took the surname Brik in honor of her paternal great-grandmother Sofia Brik, as a stage name.[3] However, despite marriage and adopting a stage name, she never changed her legal documentation, thus keeping her maiden last name.[4] She has Polish and Jewish ancestry.

At the age of 5, she successfully completed tryouts and was invited to work as a child model at the All-Union House of Fashion Design. In elementary and middle school, she focused on learning English, before applying for and graduating from a theater prep school. She also graduated from a music school as a classically trained pianist.

She studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and obtained her diploma in 2004.[5]

In Russia, her breakthrough role was Katya, a university Komsomol unit leader, in the 2008 musical comedy-drama Stilyagi.

Personal life and death

Brik was married to director Valery Todorovsky, with whom she had a daughter, Zoey Valeryevna Todorovskaya, born in 2009 in Los Angeles.[6] Zoey had her acting debut as young Prairie Johnson in The OA, a 2016 Netflix Original series. Brik died from cancer on 10 February 2022, at the age of 40.[7]

Filmography

YearTitleRole
2000Marsh TuretskogoAnastasia Kitaeva
2003KamenskayaOksana
2004Rates for love
2004Men Do not CryLydia Kholodova / Vera Kayurova / Lena Kusova
2005Matroesjka'sKalinka
2006CallNatasha
2008HipstersKatya
2012RevolveAnael
2013The Geographer Drank His Globe AwayKira
2014Yolki 1914Bella
2016FridayElena Antonova
2017Moscow Never SleepsAnna
2019MistressesAnna
2019OdesaMira
YearTitleRole
2001Northern Lights
2002Podmoskovnaya ElegyLala
2006The Count of MontenegroSlavka
2006Filipp's BayAnastasia Gromova
2007VicesTaya
2008Love as a motiveDina
2008S. S. D.Jana
2009Given CircumstancesInga
2010White dressIrina
2010Adult daughter, or test...Marina
2011Deliver at any costAsya
2013The ThawLarissa
2018The RomanoffsKatrina
2020PhantomVera Khabarova

References

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