Mariya Shukshina

Biography

Maria Shukshina was born in Moscow to a family of notable Russian artists; her parents are writer and film director Vasily Shukshin and actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina. She began her acting career at just one and a half years old, appearing in the 1969 anthology film "Strange People". A graduate of Moscow's Institute of Foreign Languages, she went on to build a successful film and television career.