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Adiya Mussina — is a Russian actress born in Kazakhstan. She is best known for her starring roles in Hide and Seek, The News, Nochnoy Bog and The Gentle Indifference of the World

Career
Adiya Mussina was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She graduated from an economy university and started her working in a national oil company before moving into acting. In 2013 Adiya applied and was accepted to The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles. During the studies her vulnerability and abilities to have a range of emotions got noticed by the lifetime member of the Actors Studio who referred Adiya to the Academy Awards winner Martin Landau. Adiya joined the Actors Studio and started training with the best acting coaches, who have worked with Barbara Streisand, Lee Strasberg, Meryl Streep etc. In 2015 Adiya moved back to Kazakhstan to become the head of an independent award-winning Zhas Sakhna theatre. In 2016 Adiya received an invitation to join the Summer International Theatre School in Moscow, Russia. 87 actors were chosen among 1300 applications from all over the world to work with the best award winning theatre directors. By the end of the program Adiya and other actors presented 5 plays on the stages of the Moscow theatres. After that Adiya was invited to become a participant of the ArtMigration international theatre festival in Moscow.

In 2017 Adiya got cast for several feature and short films that were selected for the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. During this same year Adiya applied and was chosen for an intensive course with an Oscar Winning Paul Haggis, as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners: Million Dollar Baby and Crash (2004), the latter of which he also directed.

Adiya can be seen in an upcoming feature "Konokrady", directed by an award winning filmmaker Yerlan Nurmakhambetov in coproduction with the Japanese Tokyo New Cinema, starring the best actress of the Cannes Film Festival 2018 Samal Yeslyamova.