Mariya Poroshina was born on 1 November 1973, into a family of actors. Her mother, Natalia Petrovna Krasnoyarskaya, now
director at
Bolshoi Theater, learned classical singing and performed
romance) and period songs. Her father, Mikhaïl Ivanovitch Poroshin, was a soloist in the famous "Ensemble Berezka". Her grandmother was an opera singer. Poroshina's parents divorced, and her mother remarries actor
Dmitri Nazarov. He gets along well with his adopted daughter, checks her homework and questions her. She then has little free time. She studied at school n ° 59 (now 1286), specializing in the study of French, and learned to dance within the troupe of the "Ensemble Berezka". At the end of her studies, Maria enrolled at the
Moscow Art Theatre School, which she left after a year to join the
Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.She directs the program "Expand the circle", plays in various productions of the classical and contemporary repertoire, notably at the Pokrovka Theater, under the direction of Sergei Artsibachev. Maria is currently part of Sergei Vinogradov's theater troupe, "THE THEATER", where she begins by playing the role of "Chloé" in the play by
Boris Vian,
Froth on the Daydream. Porochina took her first steps in the cinema by playing small roles in television series. It is thanks to that of
Tamara in the series entitled The Brigade (2002) and to the main role held in the series Always say: Always (2003) that she knows fame. Then her following main roles on the big screen include, in The 4th Wishes (2003), or, among the fantastic team of
Timur Bekmambetov, on the set of
Night Watch (2004). In 2005, Poroshina re-assumes the role of the Great Magic Svetlana in the sequel,
Day Watch, a film which at the time achieved the most box office entrances. == Private life ==