Viktoriya Tolstoganova

Viktoriya Tolstoganova was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Born on March 24, 1972 in Moscow in the family of an engineer and an English teacher. She has three younger sisters.[1] After graduating high school, she tried to enter theater university. In 1992, Victoria passed the selection at both Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and GITIS. Her choice fell on Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), where she studied traditional school of Russian psychological theatre for Professor Joseph Heifits. While still a student, she was invited to the troupe of the Moscow Art Theatre, where she served until the mid-2000s.[2]

Tolstoganova graduated from GITIS in 1997 and made her film debut playing a major role in the short feature film “Day Duty” directed by Roman Khrushchev.[3]

In 2003 she played the role of Marina in The Magnetic Storms.[4] In 2004 she was selected to help chose the recipients of Russia's Triumph Prize winners.[5] In 2005 she was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.[6] In 2007 she played a prostitute in the film May.[7] In 2010 she starred in the Klim Shipenko directed Who am I? playing a provincial journalist.[8]

Viktoriya Tolstoganova at the Kinotavr film festival in Sochi, 2016.

In August 1996, Tolstoganova married actor Andrei Kuzichev. They have two children: daughter Barbara and son Fedor. The couple divorced in 2010 (according to other sources in 2011). On 17 May 2011 the actress gave birth to a son, Ivan. The boy’s father is theater director Aleksei Agranovich.

• Viktoriya Tolstoganova at IMDb
• Unofficial Russian fan site