OKSANA MYSINA

Director

Oksana Mysina is one of Russia's most accomplished actors. Splitting her time between work on stage and on screen, she has performed on Off-Broadway, Avignon, Brazil and 20 other countries, and has appeared in over 40 films with many of Russia's top directors. She is the leader of her own rock band, Oxy Rocks, whose music usually finds its way into her films. She has won numerous cinema awards, including the Golden Ram Debut Award for her performance in Vadim Abdrashitov's Play for a Passenger. Her performance of Empress Maria in Vitaly Melnikov's Poor, Poor Pavel was nominated for a Nika, the so-called Russian Oscar. Mysina debuted as a film director in 2020 with Obizhennye. Belarus(sia) [Insulted. Belarus(sia)], a full-length political film based on the play by Andrei Kureichik. It premiered in Russia on TV Rain on November 15, 2020. She has made two short films, Red, Blue and Asya, and Ivan Petrovich. She currently lives in Greece, where she is in the post-production stage with a documentary, On the Road to Antigone, and a feature film, Woman and Angel, with Greek casts. She is filming another feature based on a script by Viktor Shenderovich with Russian actors. Mysina edits her own films, and is her own post-production team.