Olga Kuzmina

Olga Nikolaevna Kuzmina was born on 16 June 1987 in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia).^[1][2] As a child, she studied choreography and acrobatics. At the age of eleven, she became a student at the Igor Moiseyev Ballet. Afterwards, she studied at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the State Academy of Slavic Culture [ru], and later transferred to the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), where she graduated in 2008.^[1]

While attending school, she debuted on an episode of the children's television series, Yeralash, in the year 2000.^[1][3] She would continue appearing for seven more episodes until 2014, where she portrayed a teacher.^[4][5]

After playing secondary roles in television series, she gained wider recognition for her role as the waitress Nastya Fomina in the television sitcom Kitchen from 2012 to 2016. She also voiced the character of Valery in the Fantasy Patrol franchise since 2016.^[6] She also voiced the titular character in the 2018 Russian dub of Sailor Moon. In an interview with 7 Days (ru), Kuzmina said that she immediately accepted the role of Sailor Moon when she was offered it.^[7] Only the first season of Sailor Moon was dubbed in Russian by STS Love, and the network aired those episodes from 1 December 2018 to 1 January 2019.^[8]

In 2023, Kuzmina voiced the character Cheburashka (Chebi) in the film of the same name. She later reprised her role in the sequel Cheburashka 2 (2026) and will voice the character again in Cheburashka 3 (2027).^[9] The first two films later became the top two highest-grossing Russian films of all time, grossing $94.5m and $83.7m respectively.^[10][11]

Outside of her work as an actress, she took first place in the seventh season of the competition series, Ice Age, in 2020. During the competition, she pair skated with professional Alexander Enbert.^[12]

Kuzmina met her first husband, psychologist Alexey Tereshchenko, in 2004 while she was studying at the Faculty of Cultural Studies.^[4] They were married from 2010 to 2019.^[4] They had a son named Gordey, who was born in 2013.^[1] Kuzmina learned about her pregnancy while working on Kitchen, and so the creators of the series added a storyline where her character is pregnant.^[4]

In 2023, Kuzmina married her second husband, a tour guide named Evgeny Apanasevich. In the October of that same year, the couple had a daughter named Mira-Maria in Argentina.^[1][13][14] Kuzmina also obtained her citizenship there.^[1]