Marina Shimanskaya

At the age of 18 he moved to Moscow. She managed to enter the State Institute of Theater Arts of Russia and got a scholarship to study drama at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, where she graduated. There she had as teachers the students of Konstantin Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov.

Marina Shimanskaya's debut in the cinema took place in 1977 playing Lydia Nikolaevna in the film "When I become a giant" (Когда я стану великаном). Already after the first roles in the film, in 1981, she appeared on the cover of Soviet Screen magazine. She received great fame after the premiere of the movie "Caring for Women" (Берегите женщин) in 1981.[3]

Marina Shimanskaya worked in the best companies in Russia, starred in more than fifteen feature films, a score of theatrical works, ... In addition to touring Europe and the United States.[4]

She worked at the Hermitage Theater in Moscow between 1984 and 1991. In the 1991-1992 season he expanded his training under the direction of Oleg Tabakov.

Since 1992 Shimanskaya works in Europe. She is an actress, stage director, and drama teacher. In 2009, together with her husband the actor and director Algis Arlauskas, she founded the theater and film school "Ánima Eskola" where she teahces. In addition, she has taught acting classes at the University of Zaragoza and the University of Navarra, among others.

Shimanskaya is an expert in the Stanislavski's system, and has studied and developed it, with Michael Chekhov's and Yevgeny Vakhtangov's system. In 2010 she received the Ercilla Award for Theater Pedagogy.

"I consider Marina Shimanskaya not only a wonderful acting teacher, an expert in the theory and practice of Stanislavsky's method, but a teacher of theatrical art in a broad sense. Her students receive from her the living example of a person whose commitment to the art of theater is absolute and of a moral order."

— Juan Mayorga, Spanish dramatist and National Theater Prize (2007)