Biographie
Anastasiya Ukolova was born on May 22, 1994, in Pyatigorsk. As a child, she studied music and choreography, graduating from a music school specializing in vocal pop-jazz. She has won numerous regional and metropolitan jazz competitions, earning over 70 laureate diplomas.
Anastasiya found significant success in modern choreography, performing styles such as hip-hop, jazz-funk, jazz-modern, and house. She danced with the Jimdance team and later with JazzFunk Creative before beginning classical choreography studies. She graduated from the Shchepkina Theater School, where she trained under Yuri Solomin and Olga Solomina. After completing her studies, she joined the Moscow Gorky Art Theater company and became an actress there. She also participated in the play "Something is Missing in Borenka," which explores the filmmaking process and the atmosphere on set.
Her film debut came in 2016 with the TV film Ona sbila lyotchika. She then appeared in the series Fathers (2017). Between 2016 and 2017, she took part in several other projects, including the family fantasy New Year's film Wizards of the North: The First Battle (2016), directed by Alexander Voytinskiy.
In January 2017, the fifth season of the popular TNT TV series SashaTanya began airing, featuring Anastasiya in a key role as Valentina Rubtsova’s cousin.
In 2018, the horror film Deadly Still was released, centered around a deadly camera filming her character’s husband, Anton Zenkovich. Anastasiya played one of the main roles, Alena. She continued exploring the horror genre with the 2019 film Guests.
Anastasiya’s career reached new heights with the 2019 comedy Gromkaya svyaz, an adaptation of the Italian hit Perfect Strangers (2016). She starred alongside Irina Gorbacheva and others.
In 2021, she appeared in the dramatic thriller Captain Volkonogov Escaped, directed by Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov, which was well-received by both audiences and critics.
She continued acting in TV series such as Instalife (2021) and V Borenke chego-to net (2021). In 2022, she appeared in the films Desperate for Marriage and Tayna amuleta.
Alongside her screen work, Anastasiya’s theater and singing careers continue to flourish.
Anastasiya met her future husband, Anton Zenkovich, in 2016 while filming Wizards of the North: The First Battle. They married three months after meeting, celebrating their wedding a year later. Despite their shared passion for cinema, their differing schedules led to limited time together, and they divorced in 2019 after two years of marriage. They parted amicably and remained friends.
In September, Anastasiya became a mother to a son. She kept her pregnancy largely private and is married to a man she met during her teenage years in Pyatigorsk, whose name remains undisclosed.
