Dina Korzun

Korzun was born on 13 April 1971 in Smolensk. She graduated from secondary school and art school, and studied ballet and modern dance. Following her graduation from the Moscow Art Theatre School, she was invited to join the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, where she performed as a stage actress from 1996 to 2000. Her major roles included Katerina in Storm, She in I Can't Imagine Tomorrow, and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Korzun made her screen debut in Valery Todorovsky's Country of the Deaf^[1] (1998), portraying Yaya, a young woman who is deaf and mentally ill.

Her other significant role is Tanya in Last Resort (2000) by Paweł Pawlikowski, for which she won the Best actress prize at the British Independent Film Awards (Best Newcomer on screen), London Film Festival (FIPRESCI Prize), Bratislava International Film Festival, Gijón International Film Festival, and Thessaloniki Film Festival.

In 2006, Korzun was nominated for the Best Female Lead at the Independent Spirit Award for her role in Forty Shades of Blue as Laura, a young Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older musician partner. In 2009, she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the movie Cold Souls.

In 2006, Korzun co-founded the Podari Zhizn charity foundation, which helps children suffering from oncological and hematological diseases.^[2]

Her first husband was Ansar Khalilullin. From this marriage, Korzun has a son, Timur Khalilullin (born 1990).^[3] Her second husband was Aleksei Zuyev, an actor.^[4] Since 2001, she has been married for the third time, to the Belgian musician and composer Louis Franck. The couple have two daughters: Itala (born 2008) and Sofia (born 2010).

She lived in London.

Korzun speaks Russian and English fluently and has acted in both of these languages.

She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013.^[5]