Anastasiya Meskova

Anastasiya Meskova (born July 23, 1985) is a distinguished Russian ballet dancer and actress, celebrated for her dual career as a First Soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre and a star of contemporary television. A former child prodigy, she gained early fame by winning the Morning Star television competition and starring in the 1997 film A Little Princess, for which she received the Big Gold Medal at the Moscow International Festival of Films for Children and Young People. After graduating from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in 2002, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where she has performed leading roles in productions such as Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, and The Nutcracker. Meskova reached a new level of mainstream popularity with her starring role as Yulia in the provocative drama series Sweet Life (Sladkaya Zhizn), and has since appeared in major projects like the historical series Trotsky and the medical drama Pregnancy Test.