Dinara Drukarova
Drukarova was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), and still lives there half the year, spending the other half in France, where she tends to pursue most of her film roles.[1] She starred in a number of minor Russian films in the early 1990s, but began to pursue European (and predominantly French) productions after making her first film there, The Son of Gascogne (1996).She was subsequently interviewed in a number of prominent French magazines, including Elle, Premiere, and Vogue.In addition, Drukarova was appointed as a member of one of the juries at the 1998 Strasbourg European Film Festival.The film received a wide arthouse release in several countries, winning the Critics Week Grand Prize at Cannes, and substantially increased her profile internationally.