Anna Churina
- Actress
Anna Valerevna Churina was born on the 23rd of July, 1978, in Lesnoy, a
small city east of Ekaterinburg in the Sverdlovskaya oblast, USSR (now
Russia). After graduating from the Nizhegorodsky Institute of Foreign
Languages (NIFL) in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, she began to
work as a professional model for leading modeling agencies in Russia
and Europe. Anna made her cinematic debut in 2000 in
Claudio Fragasso's film
La banda (2000). Since then,
acting has been her main profession. In 2000 Anna finished acting
courses at Jack Waltzer's Workshop in Paris. In 2006 she graduated with
honors from the Vserossiyskiy gosudarstvennyy institut kinematografii
(VGIK) (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow, where
she took workshops run by such famous Russian directors and
screenwriters as Vladimir Mirzoev,
Sergey Solovyov, and
Valeri Rubinchik. Anna speaks several
languages fluently: Russian, English, French, and Italian. She can
drive cars, motorcycles, and jet skis. In addition, Anna is a master of
fencing. Her hobbies include equestrian sport, snowboarding, swimming,
and singing.
