fiction.wikisort.org - ActorKatya Virshilas (born 10 September 1983) is a Lithuanian-Canadian[2] dancer and actress.
Lithuanian-Canadian dancer and actress (born 1983)
Katya Virshilas |
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Born | (1983-09-10) 10 September 1983 (age 38)
Lithuania |
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Occupation | Actress, dancer |
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Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] |
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Spouse(s) | Dmitry Ilyushenov (divorced) Klaus Kongsdal (7 July 2012–present) |
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Children | 2 |
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Early life
Virshilas was born in Lithuania, to a Jewish family. She subsequently moved to Israel at age 6, and to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at thirteen.[3] She began dancing at the age of 13.[4]
Career
She was a Vancouver British Columbia Dancesport Champion four times, from 1998 to 2002.[5] In 2001, she and her partner won the Canadian Latin Dance Championship.[6] Virshilas has appeared in the Hollywood films Shall We Dance? (2004), Take the Lead and John Tucker Must Die (both 2006), and in the television shows Smallville, Supernatural, Psych, and others.
Based in the United Kingdom from the start of her appearances in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing series, she has since 2009 been professionally partnered with Danish dancer Klaus Kongsdal.
Virshilas toured the UK with Pasha Kovalev from 26 March 2012 in their own show.[7]
She also starred in John Tucker Must Die in a minor role.
Strictly Come Dancing
She appeared as a professional dancer on series 7 (2009) of Strictly Come Dancing partnering cricketer Phil Tufnell. They were knocked out of the competition in week 9.[citation needed] Their scores were as follows (all out of a possible 40 marks):
- Week 2: waltz – 29 (7, 8, 7, 7) & Cha Cha Cha (4, 6, 6, 6) – 22
- Week 3: quickstep (5, 6, 6, 7) – 24
- Week 4: salsa – 24
- Week 5: Viennese Waltz – 27 (6, 7, 7, 7)
- Week 6: samba – 25 (6, 7, 6, 6)
- Week 7: tango – 30 (7, 7, 8, 8)
- Week 8: rumba – 28 (6, 8, 7, 7)
- Week 9: American Smooth – 31 (7, 8, 8, 8)
On that week, they were in the bottom-two couples after a combination of the judges' points allocation and the audience's votes, alongside Ricky Groves and Erin Boag but were not saved by the judges.
Virshilas returned for the eighth series of the dancing show in autumn 2010 and was partnered with rugby player Gavin Henson. In week 1 they scored 28 (their highest so far) and in week 4 they scored 23 for a tango to Britney Spears's "Toxic". However, were knocked out on the semi-final. In the ninth series, she was paired with Dan Lobb[8] who was at the time one of the presenters of Daybreak.[9] However, they were eliminated in week 3 of the competition.
On 20 June 2012, it was announced that Virshilas would not appear in the tenth series.[10]
So You Think You Can Dance
On the first series of the televised reality dancing competition So You Think You Can Dance, Virshilas choreographed or semi-choreographed four routines for different couples:
- Week 1 – helped James Jordan with the choreography of Robbie White and Yanet Fuentes's American Smooth style foxtrot
- Week 2 – choreographed (alongside professional partner Klaus) Mark Calape and Lizzie Gough's Viennese Waltz, which was highly praised by the judges
- Week 5 – choreographed (alongside professional partner Klaus) Mandy Montanez and Alastair Postlethwaite's Paso Doble, which was criticized by the judges for the lack of passion, in particular, Nigel Lythgoe, series creator and judge, said it was the worst performance the pair had given over the course of the whole series
- Week 6 (final) – choreographed (alongside professional partner Klaus) Lizzie Gough and Tommy Franzén's tango, much to the praise of the judges
Virshilas reappeared on the second series to choreograph more routines:
- Week 2 – choreographed (alongside professional partner Klaus) Stephanie Powell and Gian Luca Loddo's cha-cha-cha, which was praised by the judges, despite Powell and Loddo being placed in the bottom two couples by public vote and consequently eliminated
- Week 2 – choreographed (alongside professional partner Klaus) Alice Woodhouse and Charlie Wheeller's American Smooth style waltz, praised highly by the judges
- Week 7 – choreographed (alongside professional partner Klaus) the boys' group Paso Doble performance (Lee Bridgman, Luke Jackson and Matt Flint)
- Week 8 (final) – choreographed (alongside professional partner Klaus) Matt Flint and Kirsty Swain's American Smooth style waltz/foxtrot
Personal life
Virshilas started dating Klaus Kongsdal in 2009 after the two met at the BBC bar.[11] They announced their engagement in January 2011.[12] The couple married on Saturday 7 July 2012 in a chateau in Loire Valley, France.[13]
The couple since then moved to Hong Kong and founded Ballroom Bees dance class for children below 6 years old, the dance courses are sold online and offline at YWCA.org and Kuddo. After Virshilas initially suffering a miscarriage in 2014, the couple had their first child, a boy, in May 2016.[14]
References
External links
Strictly Come Dancing |
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Contestants |
Series |
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- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
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- 13
- 14
- 15
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- 17
- 18
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- Specials
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Presenters | Current | |
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Former | |
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Guest presenters | |
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It Takes Two presenters | |
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Former It Takes Two presenters |
- Claudia Winkleman
- Zoe Ball
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Judges | Current |
- Craig Revel Horwood
- Shirley Ballas
- Motsi Mabuse
- Anton Du Beke
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Former |
- Len Goodman
- Arlene Phillips
- Alesha Dixon
- Darcey Bussell
- Bruno Tonioli
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Guest judges | |
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Winners | Celebrities | |
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Professionals |
- Brendan Cole
- Darren Bennett
- Lilia Kopylova
- Karen Hardy
- Matthew Cutler
- Camilla Dallerup
- Ola Jordan
- Artem Chigvintsev
- Aliona Vilani
- Flavia Cacace
- Aljaž Škorjanec
- Pasha Kovalev
- Joanne Clifton
- Katya Jones
- Kevin Clifton
- Oti Mabuse
- Giovanni Pernice
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Other professionals | Current |
- Dianne Buswell
- Nadiya Bychkova
- Vito Coppola
- Graziano Di Prima
- Amy Dowden
- Carlos Gu
- Karen Hauer
- Neil Jones
- Nikita Kuzmin
- Cameron Lombard
- Gorka Márquez
- Luba Mushtuk
- Lauren Oakley
- Jowita Przystał
- Johannes Radebe
- Michelle Tsiakkas
- Kai Widdrington
- Nancy Xu
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Former |
- Erin Boag
- Andrew Cuerden
- Nicole Cutler
- Anton Du Beke
- Brian Fortuna
- Anya Garnis
- Hanna Haarala
- Izabela Hannah
- Hayley Holt
- Kylie Jones
- James Jordan
- Hanna Karttunen
- Paul Killick
- Natalie Lowe
- Iveta Lukošiūtė
- Tristan MacManus
- Janette Manrara
- Jared Murillo
- Hazel Newberry
- Oksana Platero
- AJ Pritchard
- Kristina Rihanoff
- Gleb Savchenko
- Vincent Simone
- Katya Virshilas
- Ian Waite
- Trent Whiddon
- Robin Windsor
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Related |
- It Takes Two
- Tour
- The Strictly
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