Eugenia Hirivskaya

Evgeniya Brik (, Khirivskaya (Хиривская), 3 September 1981 – 10 February 2022) was a Russian film and theater actress. She gained popularity with such films and television series as Stilyagi, The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013), Thaw (2013), Yolki 1914 (2014), Adaptation (2017), and Odessa (2019). She is also known for playing Kalinka character in the Belgian television series Matroesjka's. Brik was a winner of the Golden Eagle Award (2020) and a nominee for the Nika Award (2009).

Life and career Evgenia Vladimirovna Khirivskaya was born on 3 September 1981 in Moscow. She was named after her paternal grandfather Yevgeny Abramovich Krein, who was a famous journalist. The actress took the surname Brik in honor of her paternal great-grandmother Sofia Brik, as a stage name. However, despite marriage and adopting a stage name, she never changed her legal documentation, thus keeping her maiden last name. She has Polish and Jewish ancestry.

At the age of 5, she successfully completed tryouts and was invited to work as a child model at the All-Union House of Fashion Design. In elementary and middle school, she focused on learning English, before applying for and graduating from a theater prep school. She also graduated from a music school as a classically trained pianist.

She studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and obtained her diploma in 2004.

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

Personal life and death Brik was married to director Valery Todorovsky, with whom she had a daughter, Zoey Valeryevna Todorovskaya, born in 2009 in Los Angeles. Zoey had her acting debut as young Prairie Johnson in The OA, a 2016 Netflix Original series. Brik died from cancer on 10 February 2022, at the age of 40.

Filmography Year Title Role 2000 Marsh Turetskogo Anastasia Kitaeva 2003 Kamenskaya Oksana 2004 Rates for love 2004 Men Do not Cry Lydia Kholodova / Vera Kayurova / Lena Kusova 2005 Matroesjka's Kalinka 2006 Call Natasha 2008 Hipsters Katya 2012 Revolve Anael 2013 The Geographer Drank His Globe Away Kira 2014 Yolki 1914 Bella 2016 Friday Elena Antonova 2017 Moscow Never Sleeps Anna 2019 Mistresses Anna 2019 Odesa Mira Year Title Role 2001 Northern Lights 2002 Podmoskovnaya Elegy Lala 2006 The Count of Montenegro Slavka 2006 Filipp's Bay Anastasia Gromova 2007 Vices Taya 2008 Love as a motive Dina 2008 S. S. D. Jana 2009 Given Circumstances Inga 2010 White dress Irina 2010 Adult daughter, or test... Marina 2011 Deliver at any cost Asya 2013 The Thaw Larissa 2018 The Romanoffs Katrina 2020 Phantom Vera Khabarova