Evgeniya Brik (Russian: Евгения Брик, née Khirivskaya (Хиривская), 3 September 1981 – 10 February 2022) was a Russian actress, best known for playing Kalinka in the Belgian television series Matroesjka's.

Evgeniya Brik
Khirivskaya at the 2013 Odessa International Film Festival
Born	Evgeniya Vladimirovna Khirivskaya (1981-09-03)3 September 1981[1] Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	10 February 2022(2022-02-10) (aged 40) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, radio host, child model
Years active	2000–2022
Spouse	Valery Todorovsky ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	1

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.[2] The actress took the surname Brik in honor of her paternal great-grandmother Sofia Brik, as a stage name.[3] However, despite marriage and adopting a stage name, she never changed her legal documentation, thus keeping her maiden last name.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

Filmography

References

External links

• Evgeniya Brik at IMDb
• RusActors (Russian)

На других языках

[es] Yevguenia Brik

[ru] Брик, Евгения Владимировна