Lyubov Tolkalina (born February 16, 1978, the village of Mikhailovo, Ryazan Region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian film and theater actress.
Born February 16, 1978 in the village of Mikhailovka Ryazan region. Half - Mordovian (Moksha)[5][6]. Father - Nikolai Pavlovich Tolkalin, by profession skinner. Mother - Tatiana Feodorovna Tolkalina. Parents to the present live in the village of Savvatma Yermishinsky district of Ryazan region.
Since her childhood in the Ryazan region has been involved in a lot of sports. She has the category of candidate master of sports of Russia in synchronized swimming. Worked in the children's "Theater on Water", which was founded by her coach Irina Vyacheslavovna Dergacheva. At the age of twelve, she played The Little Mermaid in a play based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale of the same name and Maria in a production based on the poem The Fountain of Bakhchisarai by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; she went on tour with the theater.
Immediately after graduating from high school, in 1995, she went to Moscow to study acting.
In 1999 she graduated from the acting department of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK) (workshop of Alexei Vladimirovich Batalov).
From 1999 to 2003 she was an actress at the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army (TSATRA) in Moscow.
She was a model and "girl of the month" in the April 2001 issue of Playboy magazine.
In 2003-2007 was an actress of the theater "Empire of Stars".
In 2010, she was paired with figure skater Alexei Tikhonov in the TV project "Ice and Flame" by "Channel One". On October 31, 2010, the actress announced that she was leaving the project due to doctors' recommendations to limit all physical activity on her knees to avoid surgery.
In 2015, she was paired with the dancer Vadim Lyubushkin and participated in the TV channel Russia-1 show "Dancing with the Stars".
She starred in several commercials, including Egor Konchalovsky.
In 2016 she created the cultural space theater "Cathedral", is simultaneously an actress, producer, artistic director, director and ideologist of the theater.
In 2020, the actress purchased an apartment in Gaspra on the territory of the sanatorium. In 2017, she was included in the "Peacemaker" for visiting Crimea.
