Angelina Strechina

Angelina Strechina (1996) approaches film as an exercise in physical endurance. Before scripts came professional ballet at the Moscow Academy of Choreography. That iron discipline shaped her body language in front of the camera.

Her first contact with the world of film and television came in 2015. But it was in 2019, with the release of Tobol, that her career truly took off. In this period drama, she played a young woman caught up in the conflicts of 18th-century Siberia.

The camera finds her naturally.

Mastering Silence and Tension

In 2020, she took part in the series Trigger. Her role as Katya required an emotional restraint that few young actors manage to sustain over several seasons. And she did it without resorting to the exaggerated gestures typical of television drama.

Because Strechina prefers to work through the gaze. So her characters often carry an air of mystery that unsettles the viewer. In 2021, she starred in Pishcheblok, a vampire story set in the Soviet Union of 1980.

The series tripled the usual traffic on the streaming platform during its months on air.

That project required her to shoot night scenes in damp forests for weeks. But physical exhaustion didn't affect her technical performance on set. Her previous dance training allowed her to perform action choreography without stunt doubles in most takes.

From Realism to Dark Fantasy

In 2022, she worked on Sisters. It was a production that explored family ties under extreme pressure. Filming stretched over several months in urban locations in Moscow and required specific psychological preparation for the confrontation scenes.

And the gamble paid off.

In 2024, she played Hella in the new adaptation of The Master and Margarita. The character is a vampire who is part of Woland's entourage. For this role, she had to sit through makeup sessions of more than five hours a day before filming began.

The film had an estimated budget of 1,200 million rubles. During post-production, advanced visual effects were used to retouch her features in the flying scenes. The film grossed more than 2,000 million rubles in theaters.