{{short description|Russian actress (born 1967)}} {{family name hatnote|Vasilievna|Schukschina|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Maria Shukshina | native_name = Мария Шукшина | native_name_lang = ru | image = 2023 Mariya Schukschina.jpg | image_size = | caption = Shukshina in 2023 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|05|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | children = 4 | occupation = {{hlist|Actress|television|translator (formerly)}} | years_active = 1969–present | awards = 30px|link=Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 30px|link=Honored Artist of the Russian Federation<br>Nika Award - 2009 | alma_mater = Institute of Foreign Languages }}
'''Maria Vasilievna Shukshina''' ({{langx|ru|Мария Васильевна Шукшина}}; born 27 May 1967)<ref>{{cite web|title=Мария Шукшина|url=http://www.ruskino.ru/art/82|website=ruskino}}</ref> is a Russian actress. Her film credits include ''Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'' (2010), ''Bury Me Behind the Baseboard'' (2009) and ''American Daughter'' (1995). Her television credits include ''{{ill|Dear Masha Berezina|ru|Дорогая Маша Березина}}'' (2004), ''Take me with You'' (2008) and ''McMafia'' (2018).<ref name="r1">{{cite web|url=https://russia.tv/person/show/person_id/720/|work=Russia-1|title=Мария Шукшина / Биография|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627075737/https://russia.tv/person/show/person_id/720/|archive-date=2015-06-27}}</ref> She hosted the show ''Wait for Me'' on Channel One Russia and was a member of the judging panel on ''Minute of Fame''.
[[File:Dmitry Medvedev with Maria Shukshina.jpg|thumb|Shukshina receiving the title of "Honored Artist of Russia" with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008]]
==Biography==
===Early life and education=== '''Maria Shukshina''' was born in Moscow, the daughter of Russian writer, film director and actor Vasily Shukshin and Russian film actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina. The actress has an older half-sister Anastasia, and younger sister Olga.<ref name="r1"/>
She graduated from the translation department of Moscow's Institute of Foreign Languages. After the institute she worked as an interpreter and broker on the Russian commodity exchange.<ref name="r1"/>
===Film and television career=== In 1969, at the age of one and a half years, Shukshina starred in the segment "Brother" in the anthology film of Vasily Shukshin ''Strange people''. And at the age of five Masha, together with her sister Olga, played the daughters of the Rastorguev family in the film ''Happy Go Lucky''.<ref name="r1"/>
Two years later, the actress appeared again on the screen. She played the role of Vishnyak's daughter in the film directed by Sergei Nikonenko ''Birds over the City''.<ref name="r1"/>
In the mid-1990s, Maria Shukshina starred in several popular films. In Karen Shakhnazarov's film ''American Daughter'' (1995), the actress played a practical and unsentimental businesswoman, who flees from her husband along with her young daughter to America.<ref name="r1"/> In the same year Shukshina played a similar role in the film ''What a Wonderful Game'' by Pyotr Todorovsky where Maria appeared as a beautiful student who, without hesitation, hands over her classmates to state security agencies.<ref name="r1"/>
In the early 2000s in Alla Surikova's comedy television series ''Perfect Couple'' the actress played a brief role of a journalist who interviews Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.<ref name="r1"/>
Maria had a lead role in Vsevolod Shilovsky's television series ''People and Shadows: The Secrets of the Puppet Theater'' (2001).<ref name="r1"/>
In the 2004 television series ''Dear Masha Berezina'' played Katya, who independently tries to make a career in the modeling business.<ref name="r1"/>
In the serial film ''Brezhnev'', the actress appears as Nina Korovyakova, the last romantic interest of Leonid Brezhnev, a woman who had a certain influence on the omnipotent general secretary.<ref name="r1"/>
In the popular melodramatic series ''Take me with you'' (2008) Maria played the main role - Maria Karetnikova, a rich woman, disillusioned with her life of luxury.<ref name="r1"/>
The actress played the character of Polina Ivanova in the melodrama of Vlad Furman ''Terrorist Ivanova''. In the film the son of Polina Ivanova becomes a cripple through the fault of an influential businessman, and her husband dies in jail. The woman decides to take revenge.<ref name="r1"/>
In the drama ''Bury Me Behind the Baseboard'', shot by director Sergei Snezhkin based on the self-titled autobiographical novel by Pavel Sanayev, Shukshina played the role of Olga, the weak-willed mother of the main hero Sasha.<ref name="r1"/>
The actress featured in ''Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'', ''Deli Case No. 1'', ''Made in the USSR'', ''The Fire-place Guest'', ''Who, If not I?'', ''Stanitsa'', ''Yolki 3'', ''Good-bye, boys'', ''Mannequin'', ''Outgoing nature'', ''Husband on call'', ''His own stranger'', ''Yolki 5'', ''Such work''.<ref name="r1"/>
In 2018 she played Oksana Godman, mother of the protagonist Alex Godman, in the BBC crime drama ''McMafia''.
===Television host=== From 1999 to 2014, Maria Shukshina hosted the program ''Wait for Me'' on Channel One. She a member of the judging panel on the fifth season of ''Minute of Fame''. In 2018 she is to host the talk show ''A Visit in the Morning''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/mariya_shukshina_vozvrashchaetsya_na_pervyi_kanal_s_novym_shou_v_gosti_po_utram_64130/|work=VokrugTV|title=Мария Шукшина возвращается на Первый канал с новым шоу "В гости по утрам"}}</ref>
==Controversies== During the COVID-19 pandemic, Shukshina became an anti-vaccination activist, stating that the existing vaccines have not been sufficiently tested and should not be used.<ref>{{cite news |title="Мы не против вакцины": Шукшина ответила на приглашение в "красную зону" |url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2021/11/25/n_16914595.shtml |work=gazeta.ru |date=25 November 2021|language=ru}}</ref> Instagram restricted following her account, displaying the warning that the account posted false information on a regular basis.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Abdulin |first1=Ruslan |title=Instagram ограничил подписку на Марию Шукшину. Она выступает против вакцинации от коронавируса |url=https://daily.afisha.ru/news/57154-instagram-ogranichil-podpisku-na-mariyu-shukshinu-ona-vystupaet-protiv-vakcinacii-ot-koronavirusa/ |work=Afisha |date=24 November 2021 |language=ru}}</ref>
In 2022, she supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://vz.ru/news/2022/3/7/1147368.html | title=ВЗГЛЯД.РУ - Актриса Шукшина обратилась к российским военным на Украине }}</ref> On 8 July 2022, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced Alexei Gorinov, a lawyer and municipal councilor of the Krasnoselsky District, to seven years in prison. He was accused of disseminating "knowingly false information" about the Russian Armed Forces under the recently introduced Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. His arrest and ensuing sentencing followed a statement he made about Russian aggression in Ukraine during a council meeting on 15 March 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/07/russia-municipal-councillor-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-jail-for-opposing-the-ukraine-war/ |title="Russia: Municipal councillor sentenced to seven years in jail for opposing the Ukraine war" |website=Amnesty International |date=8 July 2022 |access-date=14 September 2022}}</ref> The case was opened after a public denunciation by Shukshina who posted a video with a title: ""Here are the deputies we have! And not just anywhere, but right under the nose of the Kremlin."<ref>{{cite news |title=Московского депутата Алексея Горинова осудили на семь лет колонии за "военные фейки". Это первый реальный срок по такому делу |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-62090629 |work=BBC Russian |date=8 July 2022 |language=ru}}</ref> and two State Duma deputies said that they had written statements.<ref>{{cite news |title=Прокуратура потребовала 7 лет колонии для мундепа Алексея Горинова по делу о "фейках" про российскую армию |url=https://www.currenttime.tv/a/sud-gorinov/31933465.html |work=Настоящее Время |date=7 July 2022 |language=ru}}</ref>
==Honors== In 2008, she received the honorary title of Meritorious Artist of Russia.<ref name="r1"/><ref>{{cite web|title=УКАЗ Президента РФ от 14.07.2008 N 1084 "О ПРИСВОЕНИИ ПОЧЕТНОГО ЗВАНИЯ "ЗАСЛУЖЕННЫЙ АРТИСТ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ" ШУКШИНОЙ М.В."|url=http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?967233|website=Kremlin.ru|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152858/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?967233|archivedate=2015-04-02}}</ref>
==Personal life== * First husband – Artyom Tregubenko (divorced). ** Daughter – Anna Tregubenko (born 2 July 1988), studied at the Faculty of Producing at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. *** Grandson – Vyacheslav (born 21 November 2014). * Second husband – businessman Aleksey Kasatkin (divorced). ** Son – Makar Kasatkin (born 20 November 1997). *** Grandson – Mark (born 20 April 2018). * Third husband – lawyer and businessman Boris Vishnyakov. ** Twins son – Foma Vishnyakov and Foka Vishnyakov (born 31 July 2005).
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1969 || ''Strange People'' || Masha || |- |1972 || ''Happy Go Lucky'' || uncredited || |- |1974 || ''Birds over the City'' || Masha Vishnyakova || |- |1990 || ''{{ill|The Eternal Husband (film)|ru|Вечный муж (фильм, 1990)|lt=The Eternal Husband}}'' || || |- |1995 || ''American Daughter'' || Yelena || |- |1995 || ''What a Wonderful Game'' || Olya || |- |1998 || ''The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone'' || Lena, second wife of Nikolai || |- |2001 || ''A perfect match'' || || TV series |- |2002 || ''The Adventures of a magician'' || a hereditary witch Katerina || TV series |- |2004 || ''My Big Armenian Wedding'' || Nadia || Mini-series |- |2004 || ''{{ill|Dear Masha Berezina|ru|Дорогая Маша Березина}}'' || Katya (in the episodes) || TV series |- |2004 || ''Narrow Bridge'' || Natasha, former wife of Vladimir || TV |- |2004 || ''I love you'' || Alexandera || TV series |- |2005 || ''Brezhnev'' || nurse || |- |2006-07 || ''Pope of all trades'' || Yuliya Slavina || TV series |- |2007 || ''Sac with a bright future'' || Katerina Koltsova || Mini-series |- |2008 || ''{{ill|Guilty Without Guilt (2008 film)|ru|Без вины виноватые (фильм, 2008)|lt=Guilty Without Guilt}}'' || Taisa Ilinishna Shelavina || TV |- |2008 || ''Take me with you'' || Margarita Karetnikova || TV series |- |2008 || ''{{ill|Indigo (2008 film)|ru|Индиго (фильм)|lt=Indigo}}'' || Irina Sergeevna Ardashnikova || |- |2009 || ''{{ill|Terrorist Ivanova|ru|Террористка Иванова}}'' || Polina Ivanovna Ivanova || TV series |- |2009 || ''{{ill|Justice Volkov|ru|Правосудие волков}}'' || Irina || |- |2009 || ''Bury Me Behind the Baseboard'' || Olga, mother of Sasha Saveliev || |- |2009 || ''{{ill|Roof (film)|ru|Крыша (фильм, 2009)|lt=Roof}}'' || Tatiana || |- |2009 || ''Take me with you 2'' || Margarita Karetnikova || TV series |- |2010 || ''Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'' || Zinaida || |- |2011 || ''Made in the USSR'' || Tatiana Fertman || TV series |- |2011 || ''{{ill|Deli Case number 1|ru|Дело гастронома № 1}}'' || Zoya Platonova || TV series |- |2011 || ''{{ill|My Crazy Family!|ru|Моя безумная семья!}}'' || Lidiya || |- |2012 || ''Who, if not I?'' || Nina Berkutova || TV series |- |2012 || ''Fireplace Guest'' || Eleanora, attorney || TV |- |2013 || ''The Village'' || Marina Gorobets || TV series |- |2013 || ''Yolki 3'' || Natasha || |- |2014 || ''Mannequin'' || mum Vadim || Mini-series |- |2014 || ''Outgoing Nature'' || Veronika || TV series |- |2014 || ''Goodbye, boys!'' || Yevdokia Matveyevna, mother of Kolya || TV series |- |2015 || ''It's Another'' || Alexandera Marinets, police lieutenant colonel || TV series |- |2016 || ''Yolki 5'' || Natasha || |- |2018 || ''McMafia'' || Oksana Godman || Television miniseries<ref>{{cite news|title=Further casting announced for epic new BBC One drama McMafia|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/mcmafia-further-casting|publisher=BBC|date=15 November 2016}}</ref> |- |2026 || ''Seven Versts Before Dawn'' || Yefrosinya Shabanova || |}
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