Wikipedia Draft:Natalia Dvoretckaia







Dvoretckaia Natalia an awarded actress, as well as a well - known awarded TV Presenter, the Author of several TV shows and an awarded journalist.

Natalia Dvoretckaia was born on August 25, 1984 in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, near the Ural mountains.

Biography and Filmography
Natalia Dvoretckaia was born into a military family. At a very young age her family moved to the Far East to Amur Region and then to Germany, beginning her international life. Natalia Dvoretckaia went to primary and secondary school in ZGV the Eastern Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in Rangsdorf, Germany and in Wittstock/Dosse.

Natalia spent her entire childhood at the airfield, where she rode a bicycle on the runway and played in aircraft hangars. Since childhood, Natalia dreamed of becoming a pilot. Therefore, she entered the University of Civil Aviation in St-Perersburg. She was in love with airplanes and has flown on different models and also skydived.

However, the incident changed her life. One day, the casting director saw her on the street and offered to play in a movie. It was the Hollywood film "Cold Souls" with Paul Giamatti, which was then filmed in St. Petersburg. Natalia had to dance and walk back and forth, posing as a model. But on the set, the director of the film Sophie Barthez offered Natalia to play an episode where her heroine flirts with the main character. So, quite by chance, her career in cinema began. Even when Natalia had not yet studied acting, she was approved for the main roles in films and TV series. However, Natalia wanted to improve her skills as an actress and entered the prestigious Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, where there was a crazy competitive selection, which Natalia successfully passed.

During her studies and after graduating from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, Natalia played in theaters and starred in films and TV series. She was awarded as the best actress for the role of Gitel in the play "Two for the seesaw", it was impossible to buy tickets for the play Blue Arrow with Natalia Dvoretckaia, as tickets were sold out in advance.

Interesting Facts:
In 2007, The Saint Petersburg radio broadcasted Natalia Dvoretckaia’s author radio show, Not Our Films, dedicated to arthouse and indie films, which featured Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, and Guy Ritchie. She was the author, the host of the program and also did the editing herself.

In 2007 Natalia won the title of Miss Saint Petersburg.

In 2010 Natalia became the face of Martini in Russia. Videos with Natalia for Martini become successful viral videos and have collected millions of views.

In 2011, Natalia became the face of another famous brand “Carte Noire” which was previously represented by Olga Kurylenko, Natalia played in a couple with the famous French actor Frédéric Diefenthal (the film Taxi)

Her first appearance as a movie actress was in the Hollywood movie, Sophie Barthes's Cold Souls (2008). In 2012, Natalia Dvoretckaia graduated from a very well known and prestigious the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year, several movies starring Natalia as a lead were released: The Wanted, Vanka, and Neuter, Singular. In 2013, Natalia Dvoretckaia was a lead in Yasmin (Ясмин), a big budget TV adventure melodrama series produced by Denis Evstigneev's Red Square. The series was broadcast by the First Channel and also in Turkey, Kazakhstan and Ukraine with high ratings. Yasmin is a Russian answer to the famous Magnificent Century.

For 6 years, Natalia Dvoretckaia was a presenter and a director of the well-known automotive television show, The Test Drive, on NTV (with about 100 episodes). The Test Drive was a Russian version of famous Italian Quattroruote TV show. Filming for the The Test Drive took place in Russia, France, Switzerland, and Germany under Natalia’s direction. As a presenter of The Test Drive, Natalia has done a large numbers of interviews with the leaders of the automotive industry and heads of car companies, such as Mercedes Benz, Land Rover, Jaguar, Volvo, Hyundai, including interviews with the chief designers such as Gorden Wagener from Mersedes Benz.

Natalia Dvoretckaia’s show for TVC Petersburg called The Professional Choice on career guidance and young people development was deemed a programme of a significant social importance and was awarded prizes by the Government of Saint Petersburg.

In 2011, Natalia Dvoretckaia was appointed a presenter for The Lawyers television show on 7TV (currently Disney channel in Russia); she soon became one of the leading channel presenters. In 2011, Natalia Dvoretckaia was appointed a presenter for three-hour morning entertainment programme, The New Morning on Semerka (Little Seven) channel.

In 2014, The Track of the Piranha thriller based on A. Bushkov's novel was released, with Natalia playing the lead role of the American Embassy attache, Gene (Jen in the novel). The film received good reviews and had high ratings.

The same year, Natalia Dvoretckaia was featured in Nikita Vysotsky's The Safety based on Andrey Kivinov's novel, The Zone of Personal Safety.

In 2014 Natalia signed her first contract with the American acting agency The Head line Talent Agency in New York. In 2105, she completed Acting Courses at NYFA in New York.

In 2016, Natalia Dvoretckaia represented Russia at the Kathmandu Haute Couture Week in Nepal. She also walked the catwalk as a model and showed off the clothes of famous Asian designers.

Natalia Dvoretckaia also writes novels and short stories. Her story for the publication Snob was awarded the editors' choice in 2018.

In 2020-2021 Blackbetty the American Series with Natalia playing one of the lead role received a record number of prizes at various international film festivals and was named the best series by the New York Times and Voice of America. Natalia Dvoretckaia received the prize for the Best Acting Ensemble at Vegas Movie Awards.

Natalia Dvoretckaia currently lives in Los Angeles.