Dinara Drukarova

Dinara Drukarova made her first cinema appearance at the age of 12 in 1988 with It Was Near Sea, but she was properly discovered two years later in Vitali Kanevski feature film Bouge pas, meurs, ressucite which won over the Cannes Festival and was awarded the Camera d'Or. She was reunited with the Russian director in 1990 for Une Vie Independent and the documentary Nous, Les Enfants du XXeme Ciecle.

In 1998, she featured in Of Freaks And Men directed by Aleksei Balabanov, before heading to France to continue her acting career. She learnt French in 1995 whilst filming Pascal Aubier's Fils de Gascaogne in Paris, in which she co-starred alongside Macha Meril and Marina Vlady.

She went on to appear in Pascal Bonitzer's 2003 film Petites Coupuresand and in that year she received attention for her role in Depuis Qu'Otar est Parti, a portrait of three generations of women in Georgia directed by Julie Bertolucci. She won The Michel Simon Prize for her performance and in 2004 she was nominated for a César for Most Promising Young Actress.

She has since worked with Pascal Bonitzer in Je Pense A Vous and has worked with highly regarded and well established artists including Laetitia Masson and on the projects of young directors, such as Lea Fehner and her acclaimed film Qu'un Seul Tienne et les Autres Suivront, as well as Joann Sfar for Gainsbourg, Vie Heroique, which won the Best Film Award at the 2011 Cesars.

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