Olga Zadvornova
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Olga Korsak (born February 10, 1989 in Riga, Latvia) is a former competitive figure skater for Latvia, and is now an actress and singer/songwriter living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the 2006-2007 Latvian National Champion, as well as earning silver in 2004-2005, and bronze in 2002-2003.
In 2006, Olga suffered a back injury while trying to qualify at the World Figure Championships in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Not only was she ranked 21st in her qualification group (a top 15 result was required at the time), her injury forced her to retire from figure skating.
After graduating from the Latvian Academy of Sports Education, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance Stage Production & Fitness, she moved to Toronto in October 2009 to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and singer/songwriter.
As her music stage name of LIVVA, she achieved recognition in 2014 with her self-released debut album, Behind Closed Doors, which sold more than 10,000 copies in Canada.
After a few independent multilingual films, she was cast in 2018 as the lead in Junga Song's movie The Petrichor (set to be released in 2020) alongside famous Russian star Aleksei Serebryakov (which also featured the 2015 Junior, 2016 and 2017 Senior World Champion and 2018 Olympic double silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva in a cameo). The film follows the story of a retired figure skater who decides to pursue her skating career again in her late twenties, as a nod to her short-lived figure skating career.