Olesya Rulin, Exotic Russian Beauty and All American Teen Movie Actress

When most people view Olesya Rulin they think of all american teen Kelsi Neilsen, a character from the popular High School Musical series, but actress Olesya Rulin who playes Neilsen is actually from Russia (born in the former USSR).



Olesya Rulin was born on March 17, 1986 in the capital city of Moscow, Russia (Former Soviet Union). She spent her early childhood in the small empovershed 12 house village of Likhoslavl, located 3 hrs north of the capital. When she was 8 years old her family emigrated to the United States where they joined her father who had gone over ahead of his family 2 years prior. Originally the family settled in Texas but later moved to Utah.



Olesya Rulin started her showbiz carrer when at the age of 12 her mother entered her into a modeling contest. Olesya won and picked up representation by four different modeling agencies.

In 2001 she began appearing in television productions for the Disney channel and had small roles in 3 different tevelision series for the company as well as landing parts (and one starring role) in two direct to DVD movies before her big break in 2006 came with High School Musical.




Currently Rulin is set to star alongside with Jessica Simpson in the new movie "Major Movie Star". There are also rumors that she will be reprising her role as Kelsi Neilsen for High School Musical 3 this year.

Olesya retains her Russian heritage. Though she does not speak english with a noticable accent, Rulen can read, write and still speak fluently in Russian. She is also a trained ballet dancer, a great passion among people of Russia.

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Kseniya Sobchak, Russia's Paris Hilton

Kseniya Anatolyevna Sobchak was born on born november 5, 1981 in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia (then Soviet Union) and is the daughter of the former capital city's first democratically elected Mayor, Anatoly Sobchak. As a child she attended the Mariinsky Theatre ballet school and Hermitage Museum's art school. In 1998, Kseniya left Herzen University to pursue her socio-political education attending Saint Petersburg State University's Department of International Relations. In 2001 Sobchak left St. Petersburg and moved to Moscow where she enrolled in the International Relations program at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 2002 she followed her education up by enrolling into a masters program in the department of politics at the same State Institute of International Relations.



Ksenia is currently a host of several TV shows in Russia such as "Dom-2" (House-2), similar to Big Brother in Europe and the States and the most successful reality show on russian television, and "The Blonde in Chocolate", a E! Television style reality show based on Ksenia's life. She is also a close family friend of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and has been called both Russia's "IT" girl as well as the face of modern Russia all the while drawing frequent comparissons to American socialite Paris Hilton.



Sobchak seems to make no effort to seperate herself from the comparissons to the american star, even going as far as to provide her voice in the Russian dubbed version of Hilton's film "National Lampoon's Pledge This!". While both Ksenia and Hilton portray the attitude of vacuous airheads in the public eye, Sobchak's background isn't quite as posh as her american counterpart.

'Yes, it is true that I love shopping and I care about my manicure,' Ksenia says, 'But then I also love books and theatre and talking about politics. For me, there's no contradiction here; they're just different sides of my character. Whatever people may think of me, I don't live like some princess in an ivory tower.



In 1991, when Ksenia was just ten years old, her father, Anatoly Sobchak, a lawyer and early advocate of free-market reform in the former Soviet Union, was elected as mayor of St Petersburg (former Leningrad). Anatoly appointed Vladimir Putin his deputy. For the five years preceeding his election Anatoly Sobchak was one of the most powerful men in his country.

In 1996 Anatoly was voted out of office and the following year criminal investigations began into allegations of bribery and abuse of power. During this stressful time Sobchak suffered a heart attack and was flown to France for medical treatment. He returned home in 1999. When his old ally Putin came to power he cleared all charges leveraged against Sobchak; and soon after having his name cleared Sobchak died.



Because of her father's rise and fall and the scandal that surrounded him Ksenia has developed a thick skin. Right now in Russian media it is nearly impossible to escape her image, on television or in print media magazines. Having all this attention and fame breeds lots of admiration as well as public resentment. When asked if this bothers her, Ksenia replies, "No. What I really dislike is when anyone is indifferent. As long as I'm getting a reaction, it's OK. When people are nasty I don't feel anything."


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Sexy Starlet from the Ukraine, Milla Jovovich

Famous russian model, actress, designer, Milla Jovovich was born Milica Nataša Jovović on December 17, 1975 in Kiev, Ukraine ( at the time Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union). She is the daughter of Bogdan Bogdanovich Jovović, a Montenegrin Serb, and Galina Loginova, a Soviet stage actress of ethnic Russian descent.

In 1981, when Jovovich just was five years old, her family left the Soviet Union for political reasons and moved to London. Shortly there after they moved again to Sacramento, California before finally settling in Los Angeles, California seven months later. Due to the strain of frequent relocation placed on the family Jovovich's parents divorced soon after.



At the age of nine Jovovich began going to modeling auditions, and was quickly signed by Prima modeling agency. At only eleven years old Jovovich was noticed by the photographer Richard Avedon, head of marketing at Revlon. Avedon chose Jovovich to appear with models Alexa Singer and Sandra Zatezalo in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" campaign. More contracts soon followed. To date Milla has been the face of Banana Republic, Christian Dior, Damiani, Donna Karan, Gap, Versace, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Coach, Giorgio Armani, H&M, and Revlon.

As a theatre actress Milla's mother raised her to be a movie star. In 1985, though now a single mother struggling to scrape by, she enrolled Jovovich in the Professional Actors school in California, where Milla finished as "Best Pupil". She began landing minor acting rolls in television and movies and by 1990 got her first starring role in Return to the Blue Lagoon. The role gained her much praise as well as controversy. For her portrayal of Lili, Jovovich was nominated for both 'Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture' in the 1991 Young Artist Awards, and 'Worst New Star' in the 1991 Golden Raspberry Awards. She also was dubbed "the Slavic Brooke Sheilds".



Since then her career has continued on an upward track, she has starred in many films including Chaplin, The Fith Element, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Zoolander and the Resident Evil series.

Milla currently splits her time between her residences in Los Angeles and New York. She is currently engaged to American film writer and director Paul W. S. Anderson. The two met while working on Resident Evil, which Anderson wrote and directed. On November 3, 2007, Jovovich gave birth to her and Anderson's first child together, a daughter, Ever Gabo J. Anderson. Ever, a male Scottish name, was given to reflect Anderson's Scottish heritage, and the child's middle name, Gabo, was a combination of Jovovich's parent's names - the first two letters of mother's name, Galina, and the first two letters of father's name, Bogdan.

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