Ana Layevska
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Anna Laevski Rastsvetaeva (born January 10, 1982), better known as Ana Layevska, is a Russian-Mexican
actress.
, Ukraine
, Ana is the only child of Russian parents, Sergei Laevski and Inna Rastsvetaeva. Ana and her family moved to Mexico
when she was nine years old. She started playing violin when she was five and started acting upon moving to Mexico.
Ana studied acting in the Centro de Educación Artística
of Televisa
. Thanks to her skills she obtained some roles in novelas such as Preciosa (1998) and Amor Gitano
(1999), acting with Mauricio Islas
and Mariana Seoane
. Those were relatively small roles but they were good experience as well.
Eventually, producer Pedro Damián called her to participate in telenovela
s Primer amor... a mil por hora
(2000), in which she shared credits with Kuno Becker
, Mauricio Islas
, Valentino Lanús
and Anahí
. She won the TVyNovelas Award for best female revelation, as well as the Palmas de Oro prize in the same category.
In 2001, she starred in her first film, In the Time of the Butterflies
, where she had the opportunity of acting with Salma Hayek
and Edward James Olmos
. In 2005, she participated in the reality TV show Bailando Por Un Sueño
, where celebrities are paired with contestants in a dance-based competition. Despite being unpopular with the judges, she was saved from eviction three times by public telephone voting, eventually placing third overall.
Her most recent appearance is in the hit telenovela El Fantasma de Elena
as Elena Calcaño from Telemundo Studios. She will be taking her second Main Villain role in Telemundo
's Mi Corazón Insiste along side of Jencarlos Canela
, Carmen Villalobos
, and Angelica Maria
.
Other than acting, Layevska also sings and plays two instruments: violin and piano. When she was younger, she took classes in classical music.
She is fluent in Russian
, Ukrainian
, Spanish
and English
. She stands at 5' 6½".
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
actress.
Early life
Born in KievKiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, Ana is the only child of Russian parents, Sergei Laevski and Inna Rastsvetaeva. Ana and her family moved to Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
when she was nine years old. She started playing violin when she was five and started acting upon moving to Mexico.
Career
In MexicoMexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
Ana studied acting in the Centro de Educación Artística
Centro de Educación Artística
The Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa is an entertainment educational institution in Latin America. It was founded on September 26, 1978 and it is located in the facilities of Televisa San Ángel in Mexico City....
of Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
. Thanks to her skills she obtained some roles in novelas such as Preciosa (1998) and Amor Gitano
Amor Gitano
"Amor gitano" is a latin pop duet song by Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández and American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. The song contains a mixture of cultures, mostly influenced by the exotic language of Fernández, that is Spanish, and Knowles' pop and R&B influences...
(1999), acting with Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas is a Mexican television and film actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas.-Early life:...
and Mariana Seoane
Mariana Seoane
Mariana Seoane García is a Mexican actress, model and singer. She is a native of the city of Parácuaro, in the state of Michoacán.-Biography:...
. Those were relatively small roles but they were good experience as well.
Eventually, producer Pedro Damián called her to participate in telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s Primer amor... a mil por hora
Primer amor... a mil por hora
Primer amor... a mil por hora is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001 and in Brazil in 2003. It is a remake of another Televisa telenovela titled Quinceañera. The protagonist were played by the teen heartthrob Kuno Becker and the young Anahí. Both are also...
(2000), in which she shared credits with Kuno Becker
Kuno Becker
Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz is a Mexican actor who has worked in telenovelas, Mexican cinema and U.S. cinema, but is best known for his portrayal of Ruben Berrizabal in Soñadoras and Santiago Muñez in the football movie Goal! and following sequels.-Early years:Becker was born in Mexico City to Manuel...
, Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas is a Mexican television and film actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas.-Early life:...
, Valentino Lanús
Valentino Lanús
Valentino Lanús is a Mexican actor.- Biography :Valentino's parents are Margarita and Luis Alberto. Valentino is the second of four siblings, and is also the only male. He began his career as a model, and later enrolled in Televisa's CEA...
and Anahí
Anahí
Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla, better known as Anahí , , is a Mexican singer-songwriter and actress. She gained international fame after being cast as Mia Colucci in the hit Mexican telenovela Rebelde, and as a member of the Latin Grammy-nominated pop group RBD..- Acting career :At the age of 2,...
. She won the TVyNovelas Award for best female revelation, as well as the Palmas de Oro prize in the same category.
In 2001, she starred in her first film, In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies (film)
In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name...
, where she had the opportunity of acting with Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...
and Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt...
. In 2005, she participated in the reality TV show Bailando Por Un Sueño
Bailando por un sueño
Bailando por un Sueño or " Dansez pentru tine", is a reality series on the Mexican television network Canal de las Estrellas, in which celebrities are partnered with common, everyday people with dreams they want to fulfill , who each week compete...
, where celebrities are paired with contestants in a dance-based competition. Despite being unpopular with the judges, she was saved from eviction three times by public telephone voting, eventually placing third overall.
Her most recent appearance is in the hit telenovela El Fantasma de Elena
El Fantasma de Elena
El Fantasma de Elena is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo.The first season comprised 117 episodes transmitted in the USA from 20 July 2010 to 7 January 2011...
as Elena Calcaño from Telemundo Studios. She will be taking her second Main Villain role in Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
's Mi Corazón Insiste along side of Jencarlos Canela
Jencarlos Canela
Jencarlos Canela is an American actor and musician. He is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas Más Sabe el Diablo and Mi Corazón Insiste.-Biography:...
, Carmen Villalobos
Carmen Villalobos
Carmen Villalobos is a Colombian actress, most recognized for her supporting roles in several telenovelas including La Tormenta and Amores de Mercado...
, and Angelica Maria
Angélica María
Angélica María Hartman Ortiz is an Mexican-American actress and a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter. She is a legendary entertainer and is known as La Novia de Mexico .-Early life:...
.
Other than acting, Layevska also sings and plays two instruments: violin and piano. When she was younger, she took classes in classical music.
She is fluent in Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. She stands at 5' 6½".
Telenovelas
- 2011: Mi Corazón Insiste… en Lola VolcánMi Corazón Insiste… en Lola VolcánMi Corazón Insiste… en Lola Volcán is a Spanish telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. Telemundo aired this serial from May 23 to November 28, 2011 at 8pm central...
as Débora Noriega de Santacruz, main villain - 2010: El Fantasma de ElenaEl Fantasma de ElenaEl Fantasma de Elena is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo.The first season comprised 117 episodes transmitted in the USA from 20 July 2010 to 7 January 2011...
as Elena/Daniela Calcano, main villain - 2009: Mujeres Asesinas as Marcela Rodriguez victim
- 2009: Verano de AmorVerano de AmorVerano de amor is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of a famous Argentine telenovela, Verano del 98, adapted for the Mexican audience. The soap opera premiered on February 9, 2009, replacing the completed series Juro que te amo...
as Valeria, special guest - 2008: Querida EnemigaQuerida EnemigaQuerida Enemiga is a telenovela distributed by Televisa. It starts Ana Layevska, Gabriel Soto, Carmen Becerra and Jorge Aravena. The telenovela is a production of Lucero Suárez.-Synopsis:...
as Lorena Armendariz de Mendiola, main protagonist - 2006: Las Dos Caras de AnaLas Dos Caras de AnaLas Dos Caras de Ana was a Televisa's produced telenovela that debuted in 2006, starring: Ana Layevska and Rafael Amaya. The telenovela was made, filmed and set in Miami, Florida...
as Ana Escudero/Marcia Lazcano, main protagonist - 2005: La MadrastraLa MadrastraLa Madrastra is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico from 7 February 2005 through 29 July 2005. The program became an unexpected success, garnering ratings in excess of 30 points...
as Estrella San Román, villain, later good - 2003: Clap...El lugar de tus sueños as Valentina
- 2001: El juego de la vida as Paulina de la Mora
- 2001: Mujer, casos de la vida realMujer, casos de la vida realMujer, casos de la vida real is a television show produced by Hispanic television Televisa for Canal de las Estrellas. The show first aired after the Mexican earthquake of 1985 as a method to assist victims of the natural disaster...
as Adela - 2002: Primer Amor... Tres Años Después as Marina Iturriaga Camargo
- 2000: Primer amor... a mil por horaPrimer amor... a mil por horaPrimer amor... a mil por hora is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001 and in Brazil in 2003. It is a remake of another Televisa telenovela titled Quinceañera. The protagonist were played by the teen heartthrob Kuno Becker and the young Anahí. Both are also...
as Marina Iturriaga Camargo - 1999: Amor GitanoAmor Gitano"Amor gitano" is a latin pop duet song by Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández and American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. The song contains a mixture of cultures, mostly influenced by the exotic language of Fernández, that is Spanish, and Knowles' pop and R&B influences...
as Maria
Filmography
- 2009: Me Importas tu... y tu
- 2009: The Fighter (2009) as Helen
- 2009: El Que Habita Las Alturas as Teresa
- 2008: Casi Divas as Ximena
- 2006: Cansada de Besar Sapos as Andi
- 2004: Genisis 3:19 as Lisa
- 2001: In the Time of the ButterfliesIn the Time of the Butterflies (film)In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name...
as Lina Lovaton
External links
- Ana Layevska at the Telenovela Database Esmas