Emiliya Spivak

Emiliya Spivak is a Russian theater and film actress. Her father is a theater director, People's Artist of Russia Semyon Spivak. Her father's profession largely predetermined her future fate and career. She made her stage debut at the age of 12. After school, she entered the St. Petersburg Theatre Academy, course of Vladislav Pazi, which she graduated in 2003. In St. Petersburg, Emiliya played in the theater (Youth Theater on Fontanka), which is run by her father, but she does not consider her position to be privileged.

She started acting in films while still studying at the university. She was offered a role in the detective series Tayny sledstviya (2000), where she played the intern Evgeniya Anatolyevna. It so happened that the main actress, Anna Kovalchuk, was temporarily absent from the series. And this was a chance for Emiliya Spivak, who had to replace her. Then she starred in eight seasons of the popular film and became famous. In 2005, she got her second iconic role - Esfir Litvinova - in the film The State Counsellor (2005). After this film, she became a real star of Russian cinema.