Renata Litvinova

Biography

Renata Litvinova was born on January 12, 1967, in Moscow to a Volga Tatar father and Russian mother. She studied at VGIK from 1984 to 1989 and began her career as a screenwriter, writing films from 1988 to 1998 before being discovered by director Kira Muratova in 1994. Litvinova went on to star in several of Muratova's films, including "The Much Loved Rita" (1988) and "It Doesn't Hurt Me" (2006), for which she won the State Prize of Russia.