Dear Casting Director,


 My journey began on the Kazakh steppes and found its artistic home in Athens, where two decades of stage and screen have shaped me into a storyteller who thrives on both scale and subtlety. Audiences first met me as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Theatre of Art Carlos Koon, and soon after as Natalia Ivanovna in Three Sisters, experiences that taught me how to marry poetic language with raw emotion. Film followed, with lead turns such as Inga in Giorgos Siougas’  ToGala and Svetlana in Menelaos Karamagiolis’ J.A.C.E.—the latter earning a Greek Film Academy nomination. Successes continued with Rakushka, which garnered Best Actress at the Golden Knight Festival and the People’s Choice Award at IFF Moscow, and with Partners, where my performance was honoured at the Mediterranean Film Festival. Most recently, TRFCK carried me to festival stages in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, gathering a Cinematic Achievement Award along the way. Each role demanded emotional precision at dawn call‑times, adaptability when scenes transformed on set, and above all an open heart for cast and crew. My craft rests on rigorous foundations: Stanislavsky summer intensives at GITIS in Moscow, Michael Chekhov technique with Stathis Livathinos and Tamila Kulieva, and a diploma from Dilos Drama School in Athens. This training forged a disciplined instrument able to move fluidly between English, Russian, and Greek, supported by modern‑dance experience that lets me speak with my body as eloquently as with my voice. What I will bring to your production reaches beyond résumé lines. 

Sincerly,
Milana Youssoupova