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Polina Vladimirovna Agureeva (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Агуреева; born 9 September 1976) is a Russian stage actress, singer, and laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.[1]

Key Information

She is the winner of national awards Seagull Award (2000), State Prize (2001), Kinotavr (2004), Golden Mask (2009)[2] and Golden Eagle Award (2013).[3]

Career

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Agureeva's style has been praised for her versatility in portraying various roles in different settings, especially in her tragic and dramatic roles.[4][5][6][7]

In 2003–2007, she was married to director Ivan Vyrypaev. She has a son, Pyotr (born in 2005).[8]

Filmography

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  • 2004 Long Farewell as Lyalya Telepnyova
  • 2006 Euphoria as Vera
  • 2007 Liquidation (miniseries) as Tonya Tsarko
  • 2009 Isayev (TV series) as Anna
  • 2010 Who Wasn't There as Katya
  • 2012 Life and Fate (miniseries) as Yevgenia Shaposhnikova
  • 2014 Kuprin. Pit (miniseries) as Tamara
  • 2014 Goodbye, My Love! (TV Series) as Margarita Sotnikova
  • 2014 Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes as She
  • 2016 Collector as Tamara (voice)
  • 2019 Van Goghs as Masha

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Polina Vladimirovna Agureeva (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Агуреева; born 9 September 1976) is a Russian actress known for her leading roles in theater at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop and her notable performances in Russian film and television. She entered the Russian Theater Academy (GITIS) in Pyotr Fomenko’s workshop in 1993 and has been a core member of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater since 1997, where she has portrayed characters in major productions including Without a Dowry, One Absolutely Happy Village, Five Evenings, and adaptations of War and Peace. Her film debut in a significant role came with Sergei Ursulyak's Long Farewell (2004), followed by parts in Euphoria (2006), the widely popular miniseries Liquidation (2007), and Isaev (2009). Agureeva's work has earned her recognition as a Distinguished Artist of Russia, along with major honors such as the Golden Mask award for Best Actress (for Without a Dowry in 2009), the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2002), and the Best Actress prize at the Kinotavr Film Festival (2004). She is celebrated for her versatility across dramatic theater and both art-house and mainstream screen projects, establishing her as one of the prominent figures in contemporary Russian performing arts.

Early life and education

Childhood and family background

Polina Vladimirovna Agureeva was born on 9 September 1976 in Volgograd, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (now Russia). She grew up in a family of educators, with her mother teaching Russian language and literature and her father teaching physics. Agureeva has a younger brother and a younger sister. Her parents divorced when she was young, after which she lived for a time with her mother and siblings in the settlement of Mikhailovka in the Volgograd region. From the age of seven, she lived in Moscow, where the family resided in modest conditions, including a small dormitory room. Agureeva has described her early years as having a melancholic tone, though she fondly recalled reading extensively and being a self-described "bookish girl" who spent much of her free time with books. From an early age, Agureeva showed an interest in acting, participating in school performances and admiring actors such as Stanislav Lyubshin (whose portrait hung in her room), Nonna Mordyukova, and Evgeny Samoilov. By her senior school years, she was certain she wanted to become an actress, drawn not to public performance but to the opportunity for emotional expression; she later explained, "I always liked not to perform, but to suffer publicly." This inclination toward the profession emerged from her desire to explore human experiences through roles rather than seek acclaim or attention.

Education at GITIS

Polina Agureeva entered the directing department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in 1993, joining the workshop of Pyotr Fomenko, where training integrated stage acting and directing. During her student years, she appeared in several productions, taking on roles including Alix in The Magnanimous Cuckold / Idea of Mr. Dom by Fernand Crommelynck, Nymphea in School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, Yulia in Garpagoniada by Konstantin Vaginov, Sonya in The Summer People by Maxim Gorky, and Pirogova in Yu by Olga Mukhina. She completed her education at GITIS and joined the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop as an actress in 1997.

Theater career

Joining the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop

Polina Agureeva joined the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop in 1997, immediately following her graduation from the directing faculty of GITIS, where she had studied since 1993 in the workshop led by Pyotr Fomenko himself. Her debut with the company came that same year in Maxim Gorky's "Varvary," where she performed the dual roles of Marya Ivanovna Vesyolkina and Styopa. She gained early recognition by winning the Grand Prix at the Moscow Debuts-97 theater festival for her performance in "Cold and Hot, or the Idea of Mr. Dome." Agureeva has maintained a continuous and prominent association with the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop since joining, establishing herself as one of its leading actresses and appearing in numerous productions in the company's repertoire over the decades. She holds the title of Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation, reflecting her longstanding contributions to the theater. In addition to her primary work with the workshop, she took on select outside roles early in her career, including the main role in Ivan Vyrypaev's "July" at the Praktika Theater under director Vladimir Ryzhakov, a production in which she performed across multiple seasons.

Notable stage roles and productions

Polina Agureeva has been celebrated for her compelling and versatile performances at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop, where she has excelled in portraying complex, emotionally charged female characters drawn from Russian classics and international works. Her roles often highlight themes of vulnerability, resilience, and human depth, contributing to her reputation as a leading dramatic actress in contemporary Russian theater. She gained early acclaim for her portrayal of Polina in Boris Vakhtin's "One Absolutely Happy Village", directed by Pyotr Fomenko, a long-running production that became one of the theater's signature pieces and earned her a nomination for the Golden Mask Award for Best Actress in Drama in 2001. Agureeva achieved major recognition for her performance as Larisa Ogudalova in Alexander Ostrovsky's "Without a Dowry" ("Bespridannitsa"), winning the Golden Mask Award for Best Actress in 2009. She received another Golden Mask nomination for Best Actress in 2012 for her role as Tamara in Alexander Volodin's "Five Evenings". Among her other notable roles are Nastenka in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" and Ilse in Luigi Pirandello's "Giants of the Mountains", the latter of which she also co-directed, with the production premiering in 2014. She has additionally appeared in productions such as "Egyptian Nights", "...Souls" as Korobochka, "Faryatyev's Fantasies" as Sasha, and "The Madwoman of Chaillot", further demonstrating her range across tragic, comedic, and experimental works.

Film and television career

Film debut and early roles

Polina Agureeva made her film debut in the 2004 drama Long Farewell, directed by Sergei Ursulyak, where she portrayed Lyalya Telepnyova. Her performance earned her the Best Actress award at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival, marking a significant breakthrough in her screen career following her established reputation in theater. She next appeared in the 2006 film Euphoria, directed by Ivan Vyrypaev, playing the role of Vera. In the subsequent years, Agureeva took on supporting and lead parts in several features, including Katya in Who Wasn't There (2010), directed by Ramil Salakhutdinov, and the character credited as She in the anthology Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes (2014). Her later early-to-mid career roles encompassed the voice of Tamara in the 2016 chamber drama Collector, directed by Aleksey Krasovsky, Masha in Van Goghs (2018), directed by Sergey Livnev, and Tosya in Elephant (2019), also directed by Krasovsky.

Television miniseries and later films

Agureeva's television career expanded her prominence beyond the theater, beginning with her breakthrough role as the singer Tonya Tsarko in the miniseries Liquidation (2007), where she performed musical numbers to bring authenticity to the character and gained widespread popularity among viewers. She continued in television with the role of Anna Viktorovna in the 2009 miniseries Isaev, performing the song "Мне тебя уже не надо" with lyrics by Marina Tsvetaeva and music by Mikael Tariverdiev. Her portrayal of Yevgenia Shaposhnikova in the 2012 miniseries Life and Fate received critical recognition, earning her the Golden Eagle Award for Best Television Actress in 2014. In 2014, Agureeva appeared as Tamara in the miniseries Kuprin. Pit and as the lead character Margarita Sotnikova, a music teacher, in Goodbye, My Love! (Proschay, lyubimaya...). Her later television work includes the lead role of psychiatrist Olga Pokrovskaya in Lancet (2018–2019) and Tatyana Korneeva in Ballet (2023).

Awards and honors

Personal life

Polina Agureeva was born on 9 September 1976 in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). She was married to director and playwright Ivan Vyrypaev from 2003 to 2007. They have a son, Pyotr (born 2005). She was married to actor Fyodor Malyshev from 2013 to 2025. They have a son, Timofey (born 2015). The couple divorced in 2025.
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