Anna Valerevna Churina was born on July 23rd, 1978, in Lesnoy, a small city located east of Ekaterinburg in the Sverdlovskaya oblast, which was then part of the USSR and is now Russia.
After completing her education at the Nizhegorodsky Institute of Foreign Languages (NIFL) in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Anna began her career as a professional model, working with leading modeling agencies in Russia and Europe.
Her cinematic debut was in 2000, when she appeared in Claudio Fragasso's film La banda (2000). Since then, acting has been her primary profession. In the same year, Anna finished acting courses at Jack Waltzer's Workshop in Paris, and later, in 2006, she graduated with honors from the Vserossiyskiy gosudarstvennyy institut kinematografii (VGIK) (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow, where she participated in workshops led by renowned Russian directors and screenwriters such as Vladimir Mirzoev, Sergey Solovyov, and Valeri Rubinchik.
Anna is multilingual, speaking Russian, English, French, and Italian fluently. She is also skilled in operating cars, motorcycles, and jet skis, and holds a master's degree in fencing. Her hobbies include equestrian sports, snowboarding, swimming, and singing.
