Oksana Mysina

Oksana Anatolyevna Mysina (Russian: Окса́на Анато́льевна Мы́сина) (born March 15, 1961) is a Russian theatre, film and television actress. She has been described by New York Times theatre critic Margo Jefferson as one of Russia's greatest actors.

Stage

Mysina's stage work includes starring as Katerina Ivanovna in Kama Ginkas's 1994 Moscow production of his son Daniil Gink's play K. I. from Crime, a 90-minute monologue adapted from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment acclaimed as the best production of the Moscow season, in which "critics widely agreed [that she] rose to the creative heights demanded by Dostoevsky". She took the role to New York in 2003 and 2005.

Film

For her performance in Vadim Abdrashitov's A Play for a Passenger (1995) she received a Golden Ram award for best debut. For her performance in Yelena Tsyplakova's Family Secrets (2001), she received a Spolokhi award for best actress. Her performance in "The Other Mask" episode of the original Kamenskaya TV mini-series is recognized as a small masterpiece. Her performance as the Empress Marya Fyodorovna Vitaly Melnikov's Poor Poor Paul (2003), a cinematic biography about Pavel I, has been recognized for excellence on several fronts. It brought her awards at the 14th annual Vera Kholodnaya Women of Film festival, the Vivat, Russian Cinema festival, and the Artek International Children's Film Festival, all in 2004. For this role, she was nominated for a Nika Award (considered the Russian Oscar) as the Best Supporting Actress.

Television

In Oleg Babitsky and Yury Goldin's television movie of Mikhail Bulgakov's Theatrical Novel (2003), she offered an eccentric interpretation of Polixena. Her performance as Elzbieta in Alexei Zernov's ironic TV mini-series All or Nothing was first aired in 2004. Mysina performed the lead in Arkady Sirenko's made-for TV movie Wilting-Failing, based on stories by Vasily Shukshin (2004). She performed in Andrei Eshpai's TV version of Anatoly Rybakov's novel The Children of the Arbat (2004) and in Yury Kara's Star of the Age (2005) in which she played the legendary Russian actress Serafima Birman. She played the tragicomic role Hans Christian Andersen's mother Anna-Maria in Eldar Ryazanov's Andersen (2007).