Anastasia Yuryevna Zavorotnyuk (Russian: настаси ревна авoротнк; born April 3, 1971) is a Russian actress and singer of pop-folk-rock. Her most well-known role was as the lead in My Fair Nanny (2004-2009).

Childhood and education
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Anastasia Zavorotnyuk was born in Astrakhan on April 3, 1971. Valentina Borisovna Zavorotnyuk, a People's Artist of Russia, worked in the Astrakhan Youth Theatre. Yuri Zavorotnyuk, her father, worked in television and was a member of the Academy of Russian Television. Anastasia decided to play in the theater and pursue her goal from a young age, and she participated in the dance ensemble "Lotus" in her leisure time. She studied at the Moscow Art Theatre. She appeared in her first film, Masha, in 1991.

Career
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She graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School in 1993 and went on to work as an actress under the tutelage of Oleg Tabakov. She had appeared in 29 productions throughout her ten years on the stage. She is most known for her part in My Fair Nanny, a replica of the American television series The Nanny. She called and was offered the series, about which she was completely unaware. Her Ukrainian accent is inspiredby a colleague at the theater, Olga Block Mirimskoy.

Anastasia also works as a presenter in addition to performing. She took Tina Kandelaki's spot on TRK Ukraine's "Good Song" show in 2005. She also competed in the inaugural season of "Two Stars" with Mikhail Boyarsky, finishing second.

Zavorotnyuk has been married three times in his life. Her first marriage lasted only a year and was to a German businessman. Her second marriage was to Dmitry Striukove, with whom she established a real estate company. Anna and Michael were their two children.

She dated actor and My Fair Nanny co-star Sergey Zhigunov from 2006 to 2008.

She married figure skater Peter Tchernyshev on September 22, 2008, at the Foros Church in Crimea.

In September 2019, Zavorotnyuk was reported to have been diagnosed with stage IV brain cancer around the time she gave birth to her daughter, Mila, in October 2018, with rumours of her diagnosis dating back as early as August 2019 when fans noticed a scar on her neck, which was theorised to indicate a biopsy to test for cancer. To far, all information surrounding her health has remained ambiguous, since Zavorotnyuk's family has neither refuted nor verified her diagnosis and present state, while information of varying veracity has arisen in the news. Zavorotnyuk has not made any further statements and has not been seen in public for some time.

Filmography

Television