Sofya Alexandrovna Ozerova. Born on October 10, 1995 in Moscow. Russian actress.

Father - Alexander Ozerov, musician, member of the once famous group “Ex-BB”.

Mother is a master of sports in artistic gymnastics and coach.

Has a brother and a younger sister.

She graduated from a theater and music school with a degree in piano and vocals. In addition to the main subjects, the school taught acting, stage speech, and music. At school she participated in the jazz orchestra.

At the age of 13, she studied at art school for one year.

After school, she was going to emigrate to the USA - after she did not pass the competition at the Moscow Art Theater. She even began collecting the necessary documents to go to her grandmother, who lives in Chicago (Sophia visited America quite often and spent a lot of time there). However, a friend persuaded me to stay.

She entered the Moscow Humanitarian University to major in Cultural Studies. At the same time, at the age of 16-17, she worked for some time as a fashion model. “But this is not mine. It’s impossible to be just a nice girl all your life. Something more serious is needed,” she said. She also worked as a cameraman on the Dozhd TV channel.

She left the humanities university and entered the acting department of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). But she didn’t finish her studies at GITIS either - she was expelled due to missing classes related to filming.

After expelling from GITIS, I entered the School of Design at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and decided to study to become a graphic designer.

She made her screen debut at the age of 12 - she played one of the main roles in the comedy series “Topsy-turvy House,” which was broadcast on the STS channel. Her heroine is Sonya, the eldest daughter of the key character in the film Andrei Tikhomirov.

Sofya Ozerova in the TV series "Topsy-turvy"

Since 2014, she began to actively act in film again. She has worked in the Young Guard, in the eight-episode film What We Needed to Prove, and the main role in the film My Mother Is Against.

She became widely known after starring in one of the seasons of the popular TV series “Molodezhka” - she played the role of Anya, coach of the “Bears” team Tomasz Bartovich.

It’s interesting that just before filming Molodezhka, Sophia radically changed her image - she cut her hair short. She was even worried that because of this she might be left without roles. “I decided that my career had come to an end. I was kicked out of the institute, now there would be no roles, no money... And literally a week later I was called to audition for Molodezhka and was immediately approved. Yeah, that means it’s not all that bad. Haircut successful. And when then, within two weeks, I received invitations to two more projects, I was finally convinced of this,” she recalled.

Sofya Ozerova in the TV series "Molodezhka"

She played the main role in the feature film “Hit” directed by Margarita Mikhailova. Her heroine is Yulia, who together with her friend Katya came to Moscow from the provinces. They are beautiful, trusting and funny in their desire to succeed. Julia wants to become an architect. And Katya is a famous singer. But in three days their lives change radically.

Sofya Ozerova in the movie "Hit"

Born in the port city of Poti on the Black Sea coast in the family of Levan and Gulnara Gagua. His father worked as an engineer, his mother was a housewife. My grandmother was an actress, my grandfather was the first professional football player in Georgia. Older brother Plato, musician. Younger sister Veronica, a music teacher, both live in Georgia.
As a child, I wanted to become a football player, like my grandfather. After school, he completed a driver's course and joined the army. Served for three years in the Northern Fleet, in the torpedo technical unit. In the army he created an ensemble, which was a huge success among military personnel and local residents. When the time came to return home, I dreamed only of becoming an artist. I went to work at the Batumi Philharmonic, sang jazz, jazz-rock, and performed in the Egrisi ensemble. Once on tour he was noticed by the leader of the Bim-Bom group, Valery Levushkin, and invited to join the team.
He started working in a group, went through a serious professional school: gymnastics, acrobatics, plastic arts, acting. While working in Moscow, he graduated from the Institute of Culture with a degree in director of mass and theatrical performances.
In 1989, together with three members of the Bim-Bom group - Alexander Kalinin, Alexander Ozerov and Vadim Sorokin - he left Levushkin. The four artists organized the ensemble “Ex Bim-Bom”; a few years later the name of the group was changed to “Ex-BB”. They were engaged in musical eccentricities, parodying such stars as Alla Pugacheva, Oleg Gazmanov, Alexander Serov, Masha Rasputina, Valery Leontiev and others. The quartet became popular, for almost 20 years the musicians traveled all over the world with concerts and participated in various festivals. However, something terrible happened - Vadim Sorokin fell seriously ill. After his death the group disbanded.
For some time, at the invitation of Vladimir Levushkin, he was the artistic director of the Bim-Bom group. Then he registered the trademark “Ex-BB-Giya” and became the artistic director of the musical parody theater with that name.
Collaborates with Karen Avanesyan. In 2011, they released the album “Native Muscovites” together.
In 2012, members of the Ex-BB group united in the program “You are Allowed to Laugh.”
Gia Gagua is an associate professor of the department of directing theatrical performances, a master of the variety directing course at the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts.

He has a black belt in combat taekwondo. In his youth he was fond of martial arts. Developed his own hand-to-hand combat system.
Lives in a country house with his family, five cats, four dogs, two exotic parrots and one rat.

Ranks

▪ Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Awards

as part of the Ex-BB group:
▪ Laureate of the Golden Ostap festival in St. Petersburg (1990, 1992, 1995)
▪ Laureate of the festival “Odessa Humor” (1997)
▪ Laureate of the “Sea of ​​Laughter” festival in Riga (1997)

Family

Wife – Olga, former dancer (met in 1989, married in 1993)
Daughter - Christina (1992)
Daughter – Victoria (1993)

The Ex-BB team has been performing on the national stage for 25 years, and during this time it has gained well-deserved popularity. This is a team of artists that appeared in Moscow in the last years of the USSR. The new team was born along with the new Russia, since at the end of perestroika the Bim-Bom ensemble, the predecessor of Ex-BB, still existed. On the eve of the appearance of the group, its members were part of its composition, hence the name of the new group - Ex-BB, that is, the former Bim-Bom.

The genre of the group's stage work can be classified as parody, but Ex-BB's performances carry real originality and the viewer sees quite a wide variety in their parodies.

In the 1990s, Ex-BB performed at many concerts and festivals: Zolotoy Ostap (St. Petersburg), Sea of ​​Laughter (Riga), Odesskaya Humorina (Odessa) and so on. At that time the group consisted of four artists, but now the composition has been reduced. These days, Gia Gagua, Alexander Kalinin and Alexander Ozerov perform in Ex-BB. They all come from the 1960s, each has a higher education (some in acting, some in cultural studies), and Alexandra - Kalinin and Ozerov - are also engineers with diplomas from the Moscow Aviation Institute.

Their team was often invited to popular comedy television programs: Full House, Funny Panorama, Meeting Place, Funny People. In their performances, the artists do not set the task of copying or imitating anyone; they find various situations from the modern life of society and present them to the viewer in a humorous way.

In programs, concerts and shows with the participation of Ex-BB in their performances you can often see the numbers “Disco”, “Oh, don’t give me away, mother”, “Gentlemen of Fortune” and others, which enjoyed and are enjoying audience success. It is difficult to describe in words how in these numbers the stars of youth discos of the 1970s and 80s, the characters of the famous film, find themselves in the present day, how a Russian girl from the past finds herself in our days and convinces that a hundred or two years ago young ladies were very concerned similar problems... In their performances, the artists change the situations in which the depicted characters find themselves, and when presented to the viewer, the characteristic features of the characters shown are emphasized. This is done with a bit of eccentricity, so it causes a smile and laughter and makes people come to Ex-BB again.

In 2007, one of the group’s artists (Vadim Sorokin) died and A. Kalinin, A. Ozerov and G. Gagua remained. They performed with this lineup for another year, and then the group split into two lineups. In 2008, due to division, there was even an incident at a concert. Two Alexanders came to perform without Gia Gagua, and they forgot to inform the audience. When the beloved Ex-BB appeared on stage, not in full force, the audience began to leave the hall... it was already Next-BB, which retained the traditions of the team and the style of work. And Gia Gagua was able to find new artists and led another team - Ex-BB Gia. The emergence of two compositions of the group occurred due to differences in the paths of creative development. However, both emerging teams continue to maintain the general appearance of the work of the good old Ex-BB. In their performances, they actively use self-irony, parody artists and artistic characters of the past, who in stage numbers find themselves in modernity and live in the realities of our days. At the same time, the characters in the story do not consider themselves parodists.