Elizaveta Boyarskaya

Елизавета Боярская

Actress

Biography

Elizaveta was born on 20 December 1985 in Leningrad to a family of two famous Russian actors Mikhail Boyarsky and Larisa Luppian. She studied dance from childhood, graduated from a modeling school. After school, she entered the journalism faculty of St. Petersburg State University, but soon realized she had no interest in the profession and decided to apply to theatre school. 

In 2007, she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, and from 2006 she was already a full-time actress at the Maly Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg. Her stage roles there include parts in Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost", Tennessee Williams' "A Beautiful Sunday for a Broken Heart", as well as Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard". 

She played her first significant film role in Vasily Chiginsky's film "The First After God" (2005), but became widely known to the public thanks to the lead role in Timur Bekmambetov's film "The Irony of Fate 2" (2007).