Natalia Vdovina

Nataliya Gennadievna Vdovina (Наталия Геннадиевна Вдовина; born 12 January 1969) is a Russian film and stage actress. She is best known for her performance as mother in The Return. She also won several awards for her performance on stage.

Biography
Natalia Vdovina was born in Belogorsk, Crimea (now Republic of Crimea, Russia). In 1990 she graduated from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School and was accepted into the troupe of the theater "Satyricon" named after Arkady Raikin.

Natalia has two children: a daughter, Maya and a son, Roman.

Awards

 * Artist of the Russian Federation (2001)
 * Laureate of the Moscow Prize in Literature and Art (1999)
 * Laureate of Moscow's highest theater prize, the Crystal Turandot (1994)
 * twice winner of the Russian theater prize the Seagull Award (2001, 2006)