Ravshana Kurkova

Ravshana Kurkova is an Uzbek-Russian actress who works in theater, film and dubbing and has acted in over thirty movies beginning in 2003. Born in Tashkent into an acting family, she starred in Rashid Malikov's drama Kirk Kulok Siri in 1992. In the late 1990s she moved to Moscow, where she worked in television as a talk show editor and trained in acting under Tatyana Pyshnova of the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. She played Mavlyuda, a Samarkand doctor and mother of three who arrives in Moscow seeking her missing husband and ends up working as a janitor, in Olga Muzaleva's twelve-part series And We Have in the Yard, a role the journalist Andrei Arkhangelsky said was the screen's first migrant character. In 2016 she starred as Masha Troyekurova in Maxim Didenko's thriller Black Russian, based on Alexander Pushkin's novel Dubrovsky. On stage she appeared in Oleg Glushkov's Ungiers and Ivan Vyrypaev's Unbearably Long Embrace and Illusion.