Yuliya Peresild

Yulia Peresild's Estonian surname comes from her Estonian great grandparents, who were deported to Russia. She was born in Pskov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Her father was an icon painter and mother a kindergarten worker. Since childhood, Yulia dreamed of becoming an actress. From the third grade she took part in school artistic amateur performance, sang, played in school plays. At the age of eleven she participated in the contest of young talents "The Morning Star". In 2001 she graduated from secondary school No. 24 in Pskov.

After school she entered the Faculty of Russian Philology of the Pskov State Pedagogical Institute, but after studying for only one year, she went to Moscow and entered a theater college. In 2006 she graduated from the acting department of the directing department of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.

Since 2007, as an invited actress, she has taken part in the plays of the State Theater of Nations.

She played the role of Soviet Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the 2015 biographical war film Battle for Sevastopol.