Biography

Tatiana Kargaeva (Karhaieva, Kazantseva) is an Ukrainian film and television actress best known for her roles as Lidia in Posledniy yanychar, Masha Gorina in ER (Ukrainian production), Olga Makarova in Port and Elena in Insomnia (Russian production).

Tatiana graduated Faculty of Puppet Theatre at National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev.

She started acting in 22, with her first major role playing Helen in the TV series The Blossoming Season (Georgia).

She also starred in the films Dukhless 2, All that Jam and Chernobyl: Abyss. Her additional roles include TV series Shuler, Vozvrashenie Muhtara, File Picador, Dog and Port.

She also works in theatre - played in Two directed by Dmitry Krymov, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen directed by Ilya Leonov, Duncan Macmillan's Every Brilliant Thing directed by Jonathan Salway and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita directed by Valery Belyakovich.

Together with friends, actor Alexander Martynenko and director Marina Nazarenko, recipient of the National Theatre Award Pectoral, we did co-write, direct and perform visual figurative project HeSheLife.

Tatiana worked like performer in installation MONO and Garden by artist Sasha Pirogova. They were presented on Venice Biennale 2014.

She performed in project Divine Fire with London Philharmonic Orchestra (principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski) and theatre Trixeter in 2015.
- IMDb mini biography by: Denis Kargaev