Darya Melnikova

Darya Melnikova
Darya Melnikova on the set of video for song "Love Above the Clouds".
Born	Darya Alekseevna Melnikova (1992-02-09) 9 February 1992 (age 25) Omsk, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2006–present
Spouse(s)	Artur Smolyaninov
Children	1

Darya Alekseevna Melnikova (Russian: Да́рья Алексе́евна Ме́льникова; born 9 February 1992) is a Russian actress of theater, film and television.

Darya Melnikova was born in Omsk, Russia. Darya also learned to play the piano at a music school and was involved in ballet. In 2009 from Ms. Melnikova was admitted to the M.S. Schepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute), artistic directors of the course Vladimir Bailey and Vitaliy Ivanov. Since 2013, the actress of the Moscow theater Yermolova.

In 2006 Melnikova debuted in the movie. She played the main role in the film "" However, the film was released only in 2008. Her performance at this film earned her two nominations. But the real fame came to the actress in 2007. She played the role of Eugenia "Zhenya" Vasnetsova, the most athletic of the daughters, in the TV series "Daddy's Daughters".

Aspiring actress played 14-year-old Cinderella – an ordinary teen girl, who is a little bit strange, dreamy and always gets into strange and unusual situations. For this role Melnikova was awarded the prize for the Best Female child role at the XVII Open Film Festival of CIS countries "Kinoshock - 2008" and Best Actress in a children’s movie at XII All-Russian Festival of Visual Arts.

In 2009, Darya starred in the film "Ash Waltz" and in two series "The rules of theft" and "That's Life". In the same year she entered Shchukin Theater School in Moscow.

Darya Melnikova has become the face of L’Or?al. The actress starred in the commercial L’Or?al Paris Pure Zone. Darya enjoys photography and she is going to release the book of her stories and photos titled "Pictures to attract attention".

A son on October 26, 2015. Child's father is her husband, Artur Smolyaninov.