Marina was born in Novosibirsk, main Siberian city in Russia known as a political, scientific and cultural center of this huge region.

When Marina was a little girl her parents were enrolling the kid to all possible classes to make their child culturally and intellectually developed. But that was a tough period of Russian history and many sections were closing after one or two years of attending. As a result Marina has got training in gymnastics, figure skating, ballet, latin dances, acting ... just to name a few.

 

 

 

 

By the age of 17 Marina have graduated two schools with honour . She was the only one in 1997 completed Novosibirsk High School N4 with"Gold Medal"
(special honour for high school graduates who have only A 's on the record). And she was the only one in 1995 received "Red Diploma" for graduating Siberian School of Music N1 with GPA=5.0 (out 5.0) where she has been studying for 8 years musicology, piano, music theory and choral singing.
As so she received special thanks and recognitions from mayor of Novosibirsk and governor of Siberia.

 

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Marina continued her education and earned a BA in business, marketing and PR (GPA=4.93 out 5.00) from Siberian Academy for Public Administration, one of the most prestigious and hard to get in schools in Siberia. The Academy is famous for giving their small number of students practical knowledges and skills by teachers who are not only good at theory but also are working professionals. Among other disciplines (about 70 in total) she studied journalism, political science, sociology, psychology, philosophy, law, economy, logic, geopolitics, finance, mass media etc.

Beeing an A-student in everything she did Marina found herself especially interested in subjects requiring creativity like marketing, advertising and journalism. Last year of studying supported by her teacher of journalism and mass media (and famous PR specialist in Siberian region) Marina worked as a freelance journalist and an intern first for one of the main newspapers in Novosibirsk and then the leading newspaper in Siberia writing press releases and articles, interviewing interesting people. And of course she participated in a number of political and marketing campaigns that most students of the Academy did.

 



 

 

During that time, Marina became interested in acting, modeling and dancing on one side and languages/other cultures on the other. She went to Novosibirsk School of Contemporary Dance where she was trained in ballet, modern dance, hip hop, jazz and belly dance, same time taking acting classes. But she was not looking at her hobbies as professions. Performances and shootings were just fun.

 

 

 


After more than successful Marina's graduation of high school and getting into a very prestigious Academy Tatyana decided to give her daughter the biggest gift she could... visit to France. For the first time Marina saw country and culture so different from her own. That one week totally change her vision on life becoming a second ideology shock after Soviet Union collapse. Since than Marina became eager to travel and meet people of different cultures and lifestyles finding it the best way to learn life and understand who you are.

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Completed her course of studying Marina went to US for a marketing internship. Soon she left the company realized that they were not willing to teach her much. Instead she began working as an intern and then freelance translator/voice over artist for WordExpress translation agency.


While living in Los Angeles she met new friends who pushed her to follow them and do what she enjoys most.

Now Marina lives in Los Angeles, CA working as a professional belly dancer, model, promotional/tradeshow model, dancer, and actress.

 

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