Mariya Aleksandrovna Lugovaya (Russian: Мария Александровна Луговая; born July 23, 1987) is a Russian actress and theater star, best known for playing Tasya Lapina in 2008 television series Ginger, and her lead role as Marusya Klimova in the 2017 television series Murka (ru).
Mariya Lugovaya was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Her parents worked as teachers of philosophy. From early childhood, Mariya was engaged in ballroom dancing and music, studied at music school.[1]
In 2008 she graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, then moved to Moscow.[1] and from 2008, she played at the Alexandrin Theatre.
Mariya began to star in the television Favorsky in 2005, but became famous in 2008 as a blind pianist Tasya Lapina from the television series Ginger.[2]
Lugovaya played her lead role as Marusya Klimova in the 2017 television series Murka, which is about the corrupt world of Odessa in the 1920s.[1]
In 2019, Lugovaya played the character 'Lara' (Larisa Kuras) in the Netflix TV series Better than Us, who was attempting to sell the robot Arisa in order to pay for a surgical operation on her life-threatening brain tumour.
Since January 2018 she has been in a relationship with the actor Sergey Lavygin. The couple married in January 2020. Their daughter, Marta, was born in June 2022.