Evgeniya Brik Wiki, Age, Biography, Height, Husband, Family, Images, And More

Evgeniya Brik (September 3, 1981 - February 10, 2022) was a Russian actress best known for her role as Kalinka in the Belgian television series Matroesjka's.

Life and work
Also Documented in Archive: Ruks Khandagale Profile & Career Dossier

Evgenia Vladimirovna Khirivskaya was born in Moscow on September 3, 1981. She was named after her paternal grandfather, journalist Yevgeny Abramovich Krein. As a stage name, the actress adopted the surname Brik in honor of her paternal great-grandmother Sofia Brik. Despite marriage and taking on a stage persona, she never altered her legal name and thus retained her maiden surname. She is of Polish and Jewish descent.

She successfully finished auditions at the age of 5 and was invited to work as a child model at the All-Union House of Fashion Design. She focused on English throughout elementary and middle school before applying to and graduating from a theater prep school. She is also a classically trained pianist who graduated from a music school.
Related Archival File: Full Biography of Manisha Jain

She received her diploma from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in 2004.

Katya, a university Komsomol unit head, was her breakthrough role in Russia in the 2008 musical comedy-drama Stilyagi.

Individual life and death

Brik married filmmaker Valery Todorovsky, with whom she had a daughter, Zoey Valeryevna Todorovskaya, born in Los Angeles in 2009. Zoey made her acting debut in The OA, a Netflix Original series released in 2016. Brik passed away from cancer on February 10, 2022, at the age of 40.

Filmography