---
name: "Varvara Shmykova"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/varvara-shmykova"
fi1m_id: "varvara-shmykova"
imdb_id: "nm5589529"
tmdb_id: 1945204
wikidata_id: "Q101085653"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 February 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-12T05:07:11.941447+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Varvara Shmykova

## Identity

Varvara Shmykova

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/varvara-shmykova
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** varvara-shmykova
- **IMDb ID:** nm5589529
- **TMDB ID:** 1945204
- **Wikidata ID:** Q101085653
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varvara_Shmykova, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101085653, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5589529/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1945204

Actor. Born 24 February 1992 in Moscow, Russia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 February 1992, Moscow, Russia
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Varvara Shmikova
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 83 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varvara_Shmykova, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101085653, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5589529/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1945204

## Biography

Varvara Shmykova is a Russian actress. Born in Moscow on 24 February 1992, she graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School and began working in independent cinema and contemporary theatre.

Her film roles include Lena in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s *Loveless* (2017), Petrov’s mother in Kirill Serebrennikov’s *Petrov’s Flu* (2021), and Sasha, Tchaikovsky’s sister, in Serebrennikov’s *Tchaikovsky’s Wife* (2022). She appears as Natasha in Zvyagintsev’s *Minotaur* (2026). She also works in television, theatre and opera, with international credits including productions at the Komische Oper Berlin.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Minotaur* (2026), Fi1m 80, as Natasha — [page](https://film.one/film/minotaur.md)
- *Loveless* (2017), Fi1m 83, as Lena — [page](https://film.one/film/loveless.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Minotaur* (2026), as Natasha — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/minotaur.md)
- *Interview* (2025), as (voice)
- *Inflatable Bear, Hourly* (2025), as Lena
- *Мирные огоньки - 2024* (2023), Actor
- *Mikulai* (2023), Actor
- *Qas* (2022), as Katerina
- *Tchaikovsky's Wife* (2022), as Sasha, Tchaikovsky's Sister
- *Goremyki* (2022), series, Actor
- *Petrov's Flu* (2021), as Petrov's mother
- *А что ваааще происходит?* (2021), series, as Гость
- *Папа, закрой дверь* (2021), series, as Гость
- *Ciao, 2020!* (2020), Actor
- *Караokko* (2020), Actor
- *The Three* (2020), Actor
- *Varya* (2020), as Varya
- *Chicks* (2020), series, as Lyuda
- *It Is Important* (2019), Actor
- *The Frenchman* (2019), as girl at a house party
- *Loveless* (2017), as Lena — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/loveless.md)
- *The Movie about Alekseev* (2014), as однокурсница Алексеева
- *Striptease* (2013), Actor
- *Ksenia*, Actor
- *Matröshki*, as Sascha
- *The Extremists*, Actor

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