Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkaryova (born July 25, 1980, Gorky) is a Russian theater and film actress, singer, and television host. A native of the Avtozavodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod, she became widely known for her role as Dasha Bukina in the comedy series "Happy Together" (TNT, 2006–2013).[1]

The Nizhny Novgorod Years

Natalya Bochkaryova was born and raised in the Avtozavodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. Her mother worked as an accountant at the Gorky Automobile Plant, and her father was a worker at the same enterprise.[2][3] As a child, Natalya did dance and embroidery, attended a modeling school and a theater studio, and studied at School No. 129.[2] After finishing school, she worked for a time at Nizhny Novgorod youth newspapers, dreaming of becoming a journalist, but she happened to see an announcement about auditions for a theater school and passed the competitive selection.[3] In 2000, she graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School named after E. A. Evstigneev (the workshop of R. Levite).[4]

Theater Career

In 2002, Bochkaryova graduated from Oleg Tabakov's workshop at the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio and was accepted into the company of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, where she worked until 2011.[4] On the MKhT stage, she made her debut as Marietta Rival in "A Cabal of Hypocrites" by M. Bulgakov (directed by A. Shapiro, 2001), and then appeared in the productions "Zeros" by P. Kohout (dir. Y. Burian, 2002), "Terrorism" by the Presnyakov brothers (dir. K. Serebrennikov, 2002), "A Little Tenderness" by A. Nikolai (dir. A. Kats, 2003), "The Last Victim" by A. Ostrovsky (dir. Y. Yeryomin, 2003), "Playing the Victim" by the Presnyakov brothers (dir. K. Serebrennikov, 2004), "Boule de Suif" after Maupassant (dir. G. Tovstonogov Jr., 2005), and others.[4] At the Oleg Tabakov Theatre, she played the role of Vasilisa in "The Lower Depths" by M. Gorky.[4]

Film and Television

She made her film debut in 1999 with a small role in the movie "The Chinese Service."[1] In the following years she appeared in films and TV series including "The Rider Named Death" (2004), "Yesenin" (2005), "A Rope of Sand," "Airport," "Dasha Vasilyeva," "Kulagin and Partners," "Two Girls on the Rocks," "The Last Christmas Trees," and "Megajunglis" (2010), among others.[4][2] Her major screen role was Dasha Bukina in the series "Happy Together," the Russian adaptation of the American sitcom "Married… with Children"; filming ran from 2006 to 2013.[3] Alongside her acting career she also worked in television: from September 2010 she hosted the program "People Do Live!" on NTV, and in 2010 she worked as a host on the Ukrainian TV channel STB.[2][1] She has released several music tracks. She is the founder and director of a school-studio that bears her name.[1]

Links

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Sources

  1. 2x2.su — Bochkaryova Natalya Vladimirovna — Biography — Dvazhdy Dva
  2. lib-avt.ru — Bochkaryova Natalya Vladimirovna — Centralized Library System of the Avtozavodsky District of the City of Nizhny Novgorod
  3. rus.team — Bochkaryova Natalya Vladimirovna — Actress — Biography
  4. mxat.ru — Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre: Natalya Bochkaryova / People