A series of bizarre turns took place in the biography of Sofia Zaika, thanks to which the daughter of a respectable financier turned from a diligent student of a financial institution into a beginning talented actress. Of particular interest is the name of her common-law spouse, who she does not directly call, but many suspect that this is one of the most influential people on Russian television. Biography, photos of Sophia Zaika, interesting facts from her life will be presented below.
Banker's daughter
Almost every father secretly dreams of his child repeating his professional career and even surpassing his parent. This also applies to Pavel Zaika, a well-known financier, director of the Moscow branch of a large Latvian bank, however, in a completely different scenario, the biography of Sofia Zaika was formed.
The year of birth of the young actress - 1988, she was born in St. Petersburg. Until the fourth grade, the girl studied at a privileged Sosnovoborsk private school. As already mentioned above, Pavel Zaika dreamed that her daughter would follow in his footsteps, and the obedient girl after graduation went to study at the Faculty of Economics at St. Petersburg University.
In parallel with the compulsory courses, the versatile Sophia attended music and fencing classes, which later came in handy when she became an actress.
Turning into an actress
Having completed the compulsory educational program, the daughter of a well-known financier goes to Moscow, but not in order to put into practice the knowledge of the economist. Sophia Zaika decided to build her biography in her own way. To begin with, she decided to master the profession of a stylist, after which she got a job in the fashion house of the famous Ulyana Sergienko.
After some time, Sophia felt the makings of a dramatic actress in herself and in 2014 she again plunged into study, enrolling in the Moscow Art Theater School, getting on the course to Sergei Zemtsov and Igor Zolotovitsky. According to the girl herself, the profession of the actress attracted her with the fact that in each role, she was required to show some new abilities, to open herself all the time.
The biography of Sofia Pavlovna Zaika as an actress started quite late, however, the fact that she practically had no passing roles plays in her favor. While still a 1st year student of acting school, Sophia got a major role in a serious television project.
Filmography
By 2018, the filmography of the girl has five works. Two of them are short stories “Dreams of Joseph” and “Nights of Agatha”, included in the full-length collection “Petersburg. Only for love". A breakthrough for the young actress was her participation in the television series “Mysterious Passion”, the screening of which started in October 2016.
The series is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vasily Aksenov, in which he describes the life of the famous "sixties." Under fictitious names in the film, you can identify many famous characters of that legendary era - Bulat Okudzhavu, Vladimir Vysotsky, Marina Vladi, Robert Rozhdestvensky and many others.
The very same Sofya Zaike had the honor to play the French actress Marie Eugene, in which the attentive viewer easily recognizes Maria Vladi. The girl was immensely pleased when Denis Evstigneev offered her, a student of the acting school, this role, because Sofia’s partners on the set became such famous personalities in the cinema world as Sergey Bezrukov, Chulpan Khamatova, Philip Yankovsky.
Sophia carefully prepared for this role, listening to the stories of Maria Vladi's friends about her, watching all the films of the Frenchwoman, reading her interview.
Another high-profile film in the acting biography of Sophia Zaika was Viking. True, here the girl played a secondary role. The last project with the participation of a young native of St. Petersburg was Mayakovsky. Here the girl was embodied in the image of one of the many lovers of the great poet.
