4 Russian-speaking actresses who conquered Hollywood

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

On July 25 the film "Wolverine: the Immortal" will be released. Hugh Jackman played the main role in this Hollywood action movie. The image of his main rival was embodied by the Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova.

For Khodchenkova, the role in Western projects is not the first. She has already starred in Spy Get Out with Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth and other stars. The film received 3 Oscar nominations and several British and European Academy Awards.

In Wolverine, she is the main villainess.

But if in "Spy" Svetlana appeared only in a few episodes, then in "Wolverine" she is the main villain. Her character, the Viper, wears spectacular outfits (mostly green) and fights mercilessly against the enemy.

This role should be not only a personal breakthrough in the career of Svetlana Khodchenkova, but also a great success for Russian-speaking actresses in Hollywood in general. Not many have succeeded in conquering the Western film industry. Here are the names of three more who were able to do this.

Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Lithuanian Ingeborga Dapkunaite is one of the most cosmopolitan actresses. She successfully starred in Russian, European and American cinema. It is interesting that the domestic film with her participation, "Burnt by the Sun", received the main prize of the American Film Academy - "Oscar". As for Hollywood projects, the actress's filmography includes such films as "Seven Years in Tibet" with Brad Pitt, "Mission Impossible" with Tom Cruise and "Hannibal: Ascent" with Gaspar Ulliel.

Olga Kurilenko

Olga is a native of Ukraine, but Russian moviegoers have long considered her theirs. In Hollywood, she already has her own. A breakthrough in the career of the actress happened after the role in the next series of Bond, "Quantum of Solace", where she played in tandem with Daniel Craig. After the film, offers literally fell on the actress, and tapes with her participation began to come out one after another. Kurylenko played a savage Pictish tribe in Centurion, the romantic lover of Ben Affleck's hero in To a Miracle, a mysterious alien from a post-apocalyptic Earth in Oblivion in a duet with Tom Cruise. Now 4 more film projects with her participation are being prepared for release, in one of which - "Academy of Vampires" - Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky began his Hollywood career.

Yulia Snigir

Now the actress is planning to participate in two more projects.

A native of the city of Donskoy, Tula Region, she is just beginning her Hollywood career. Her first (and immediately noticeable) move was the recent release of the action movie Die Hard: A Good Day to Die, the fifth installment of the cult franchise. According to the plot, the hero of Bruce Willis - policeman John McClain - comes to Moscow for his son and immediately gets involved in a dangerous business. Yulia got the role of Irina - the daughter of a man whom they must save from villains. True, who is the villain and who is not, in the end it will not be so easy to understand.

Now the actress plans to participate in two more projects - the thriller "Delirium" directed by Lee Roy Koontz and the action movie "Freezer" directed by Michael Salomon, where her partners will be Peter Facinelli and Dylan McDermott.

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