Biography

Darya Avratinskaya is a Russian theater and film actress, singer, choreographer. From an early age she was fond of ballet. In 2000-2004 she studied at the Choreographic Studio at the Russian Imperial Ballet. In 2004 - at the Academy of Choreography. She took part in productions of the Irina Apeksimova Production Center and the Russian Imperial Ballet. In 2009-2012, she studied at the school at the Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. In 2014, she graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in the USA. In 2015, she graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School, Dmitriy Brusnikin's course.

In 2012, she played at the Oleg Tabakov Studio Theatre. Then she became an actress at the Taganka Theatre.

Since 2013, she began acting in films, debuting in the crime series Toptuny (2013).
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast

The stage name Avratinskaya is the surname of Darya's great-grandmother on her mother's side.

I get roles honestly. Everything is honest at the Taganka Theatre. I am not approved for roles because of my pretty eyes, but after castings

I was in a creative vacuum for almost a year, I was searching for myself, I was even going to enroll in Moscow State Institute of International Relations, but Aleksey Frandetti appeared completely by chance and invited me to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre to play in his play 'Pride and Prejudice'

I have never studied singing, vocals, music, never learned to sing in my life and never sat at a musical instrument. Even when I released 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Pride', I did not take vocal lessons. With my rather low voice and despite the fact that this is not my tessitura (I am absolutely not a soprano), I somehow try to take these notes. I can't say that I perform the part perfectly, but every time I make incredible efforts

Notes are still like Chinese to me, I can imagine how they are arranged on the keys, I remember everything well by ear