Yuliya Mayarchuk

Born in Ukraine, she moved to Naples, Italy, in 1990.1. She has built nearly her entire career in Italy, where she is one of the biggest celebrities in the country.

In 2000, she worked with Tinto Brass on the film Tra(sgre)dire, in which she played the lead role, Carla.2 She then had a supporting role in the Italian Rai 3 television series La squadra (The Squad) and in other films and TV dramas, including the film Faccia di Picasso (Picasso's Face), directed by Massimo Ceccherini, and the Italian TV series Distretto di Polizia 3 (Police Precinct 3), Carabinieri 2, directed by Raffaele Mertes, R.I.S. 5 – Delitti imperfetti, Don Matteo 6, by Fabrizio Costa, Incantesimo 7 (Enchantment 7), Il Maresciallo Rocca (Marshal Rocca), Occhio a quei due (Watch Out for Those Two) and Squadra Antimafia (Anti-Mafia Squad), by Carmine Elia.

After television and film, she moved to the stage, performing in the plays Miseria e Nobiltà (Misery and Nobility), by Aldo Giuffré; Il Bello di Papà (Daddy's Handsome Son), with Vincenzo Salemme; Comicissima Tragedia (Hilarious Tragedy) and Ti ho Spostato per Ignoranza (I Moved You Out of Ignorance), with Gianfranco and Massimiliano Gallo; and Lo Schiaccianoci (The Nutcracker), a ballet short film set to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (spelled Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij in some Italian Latin-alphabet transliterations), directed by Manuela Schiano Lomoriello.

Based in Naples, she had a daughter with a local businessman.