Anastasia Zavorotnyuk

Biography

Anastasia Zavorotnyuk (according to her passport, from 1999 to 2017 she bore the surname of her husband Stryukov) was born on April 3, 1971 in Astrakhan. Mother - People's Artist of Russia Valentina Borisovna Zavorotnyuk, worked in the Astrakhan Youth Theater. Father - Yuri Andreevich Zavorotnyuk (09.01.1945 - 01.10.2014), TV director, member of the Academy of Russian Television. The elder brother Svyatoslav worked as a director of editing in Astrakhan, died of peritonitis at the age of 52.

Since early childhood, Anastasia decided to play in the theater and stubbornly aspired to her dream: in her free time she studied music and dance, participated in the dance ensemble "Lotus".

Graduated from the children's music School No. 1 in Astrakhan.

In 1988-1989, she studied at the Faculty of History of the Astrakhan State Pedagogical Institute, but dropped out and entered the Moscow Art Theater Studio School (the course of Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev). In 1991, the first film with her participation was released — "Masha" by Tamara Pavlyuchenko based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov).

In 1993, Zavorotnyuk, after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, became an actress of the studio theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov and for ten years of work in the theater, she played in 29 performances.

In the same 1993, in addition to working in the theater, Zavorotnyuk voiced the character Christopher Robin from the animated series "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh", and also played the role of a priest's daughter in Vladimir Lyubomudrov's drama "The Heir", however, due to financial problems, the film was released only in 2002, remaining almost unnoticed.

The actress was widely known for the series "My Beautiful Nanny", in which she got into by pure chance: she just got a call and was offered a role in a series that she had no idea about. The characteristic Ukrainian accent was borrowed from her colleague in the theater — Olga Blok-Mirimskaya.

In 2007, director Georgy Jungwald-Khilkevich approved Anastasia Zavorotnyuk for the role of d'Artagnan's daughter Jacqueline in his film "The Return of the Musketeers, or the Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin", but the actress refused this project, ostensibly so as not to offend Elizabeth Boyarskaya, who was originally offered this role.

In 2005, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk replaced Tina Kandelaki as the host of the program "Good Songs" on the channel "STS". She led the programs "Kitchen for dummies", "Dancing with the Stars", "Dancing on Ice". The presenter of the "Ice Age" on Channel One together with Marat Basharov (2008), Irina Slutskaya (2009) and Peter Chernyshev (2014). Co-host of Dmitry Dibrov in the TV show "Marriage Games" (Channel One, 2010), co-host of Marat Basharov in the TV show "Ice and Flame" (Channel One, 2010). Anastasia was repeatedly invited as a member of the jury of the television show "Narodnaya Zvezda" on "TRK Ukraine", the third season of the magic show "Surprise me" on "TV-3", as well as the theater award "Golden Leaf". Participated in the first season of the project "Two Stars" paired with Mikhail Boyarsky, reached the final, took 2nd place.

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On September 30, 2012, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk had a humorous talk show of the same name on Channel One - Nastya. On December 18, 2012, the channel decided to close the program due to low ratings.

In 2013 and 2014, she was the host of the show "Two Stars".

From February to December 2016, together with her husband Peter Chernyshev, she hosted the morning TV channel "New Morning" on NTV.

On December 31, 2016, she hosted the New Year's show together with Dmitry Kolchin "All Stars in the New Year" on NTV. On December 31, 2016, she was one of the hosts of the show "New Year's Billion" on the same TV channel.

During the presidential elections of 2018, Zavorotnyuk joined the Putin Team movement, which supported Vladimir Putin.

Since mid-August 2019, she has stopped participating in theatrical productions. On October 15, 2019, the actress' inner circle announced that Zavorotnyuk was undergoing treatment.

On May 14, 2020, it became known that Anastasia Zavorotnyuk had a malignant neoplasm of the brain. Alexander Makarov, Director of the V. A. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told about this during a meeting on the development of genetic technologies with the President of Russia.