Natalia Vdovina

Nataliya Gennadievna Vdovina (; born 12 January 1969) is a Russian film and stage actress. She is best known for her performance as mother in The Return. She also won several awards for her performance on stage.

Biography Natalia Vdovina was born in Belogorsk, Crimea, Ukraine. In 1990 she graduated from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School and was accepted into the troupe of the theater "Satyricon" named after Arkady Raikin.

Natalia has two children: a daughter, Maya and a son, Roman.

Awards Artist of the Russian Federation (2001) Laureate of the Moscow Prize in Literature and Art (1999) Laureate of Moscow's highest theater prize, the Crystal Turandot (1994) twice winner of the Russian theater prize the Seagull Award (2001, 2006)

Selected filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1995 Dachniki Varvara Basova (ru) 2003 The Return Mother 2005 Ordering Anna (ru) 2006 Z odzysku Katia 2009 Double Missing Viktoriya 2011 For all life Nina Volnaya 2015 Without Borders Sveta (ru) 2015 Last Night Nadya 2017 How Vitka Chesnok Took Lyokha Shtyr to the Home for Invalids Vera (ru) 2018 NO-ONE Tamara, General's wife 2018 Your Tutor (Vash Repitor) Anna Savva's Tutor

Television Year Title Role Notes 2002 Poirot's failure Mrs. Foliot (ru) 2003 People and shadows 2. Optical illusion Leikin Mini-series 2003 The sky with polka dots Klavdiya 2003 Taxi driver Elena Starkova 2005 The New Russian Romance Alevtina 2005 The charm of evil Vera Guchkova (ru) 2006 Your Honor Marina Andreevna Seregina 2007 Mymra Elena Chistyakova / Lenka Tyutina TV 2007 Beautiful Elena Natalya TV 2007 Teacher in law Lydiya Markina TV 2009 Court Marina Seryogina 2009-10 Kremlin cadets Svetlana Mamina, doktor (ru) 2010 The best friend of my husband Inna Panova TV 2011 Pirate and piratka Olga Kapustina 2011 Porcelain wedding Nina Uteshina 2012 Brothers Lena 2012 Swallow's Nest Asya 2012-13 Do not cry for me, Argentina Masha Yakovleva 2013 Mother and Stepmother Mariya Paramonova Mini-Series 2013-15 The last of the Magikyan Anastasiya Pavlovna (Egor's mom) (ru) 2014 Two winters and three summers Anfisa Minina (ru) 2016 Love Network Arina 2017 Porcelain House Alla Grossman Mini-Series 2020 Passengers Ella TV Series