Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, 27, who plays Ivana in Donald Trump 演劇 The 見習い工 learned Danish in the hope of starring in indie Scandi films and got her big break in Borat
- Maria Bakalova, 27, from Bulgaria is a BAFTA and Oscar-指名するd actress?
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The 近づいている film about Donald Trump, aptly 指名するd The 見習い工, 首相d at Cannes last night.
述べるd as '議論の的になる' by many 出口s, Trump has said he 計画（する）s to 告訴する the 製造者s of the docudrama - which 含むs a scene of him 強姦ing his late ex-wife Ivana, which he 否定するs ever happened.
However, ahead of its Cannes 首相, the movie was one of the festival's most 心配するd.?
に引き続いて its 審査, it received an eight-minute standing ovation, thanks no 疑問 in part to the 業績／成果 of Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Ivana.?
にもかかわらず not (yet) 存在 a 世帯 指名する, Maria, 27, has already enjoyed 重要な success in her career and took to the festival's glitzy red carpet in?Dolce&Gabbana Alta Moda.
Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova (pictured) 提起する／ポーズをとるs for snappers a wearing Dolce & Gabbana gown while …に出席するing The 見習い工's 首相 at Cannes Film Festival
Maria Baklava is photographed on the 始める，決める of The 見習い工 in Toronto. She plays Donald Trump's late ex wife Ivana in the film
In 2020, the actress was 指名するd for a number of prestigious awards 含むing an Oscar, BAFTA, SAG Award and Golden Globe for her supporting 役割 in?Borat その後の Moviefilm.
She went の上に to 勝利，勝つ a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her 業績／成果 in the film.?
Born and raised in Burgas, Bulgaria in 1996, Maria showed an 利益／興味 in the creative arts at a young age, taking singing and flute lessons when she was around six-years-old.
It was not until she was 12 that she 入会させるd in 事実上の／代理 classes.
述べるing why she started 事実上の／代理, Maria told the New York Times?in 2020: 'At some point, I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 調査する more. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to escape from reality. Because in 事実上の／代理, you can become anybody. You can do everything. You can live on 火星.'?
It was 報道によれば after watching the 2012?Danish psychological 演劇 The 追跡（する）, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelsen, that she decided to 本気で 追求する 事実上の／代理.
This didn't 影響する／感情 her academic 熟考する／考慮するs though: the former straight A student told the New York Times that as a child, she was '最高の disciplined', and read 'too many 調書をとる／予約するs', 明らかにする／漏らすing that she was 'obsessed' with Dostoyevsky when she was around 15-years-old.
She also 報道によれば enjoyed the escapism that reading 作品 of fiction by authors 含むing?Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Mikhail Bulgakov afforded her.
によれば the actress (pictured) she was an 極端に disciplined child who was a straight A student obsessed with literature
Maria (pictured, left) 得点する／非難する／２０d a major 打開 with her 役割 in 2020 movie?Borat その後の Moviefilm, 選ぶing up an Oscar nod (pictured with?Sacha Baron Cohen, ri ght)
述べるing those who have 奮起させるd her, Maria has 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d actresses Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman, 同様に as filmmakers 含むing Thomas Vinterberg, Pedro Almod?var, and British director Andrea Arnold.?
Maria went の上に move to Sofia, where she majored in 演劇 at the 国家の School of Music and 行う／開催する／段階 Arts in Burgas (where she minored in flute).?
While a student there, she 成し遂げるd in a number of theatre 生産／産物s, 含むing Les 連絡事務s dangereuses, 性の Perversity in Chicago, Kennedy's Children and The 裁判，公判.
It was in 2017 that she had her first on 審査する 役割, playing a supporting character in a?comedy-演劇 film called XIIa.?
That year, she also scooped her first 主要な 役割, playing Yana in the film Transgression - a part she 報道によれば 安全な・保証するd after she was 調印するd up for a blind audition by a classmate.
Maria won an award for her 業績／成果, scooping the Best Actress gong at Toronto's 代案／選択肢 Film Festival in 2018.
The film, which was 審査するd at a number of film festivals around Europe, the 明言する／公表するs, and Canada, was 結局 選ぶd up by HBO Max, which 解放（する）d it in 2021.
She went の上に 勝利，勝つ a small part in the The Father (2019), which was?selected as the Bulgarian 入ること／参加（者） for the Best International Feature Film 部類 at the 学院 Awards in 2020.
Before 卒業生（する）ing, Maria 説得するd her parents to take her to Denmark, a country she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to visit because of her love of Danish cinema.
Maria (pictured at the?2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards in Santa Monica, California) is the first Bulgarian actor to be 指名するd for an Oscar
Maria (pictured at the 2020 SAG Awards) was so keen to work as a 走者 on a Lars 出身の Trier film that she 報道によれば learnt Dutch for the 職業
Maria …に出席するs 2022 Comic 反対／詐欺 International in San Diego (pictured L-R:?Will Poulter, Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Pom Klementieff, James Gunn, and Maria Bakalova)
While there, によれば Indiewire, she went to the offices of?Lars 出身の Trier's 生産／産物 company?Zentropa, where she asked if she could be a 走者 on his next film.
She told Indiewire: 'I said, "That’s it, I’m moving to Denmark, and I’m going to do my best work there".'
によれば some 報告（する）／憶測s, to 安全な・保証する the position of 走者, she had to agree to learn Danish, which she did.
に引き続いて her 卒業 in 2019, Maria made the move from her home country of Bulgaria to Los Angeles.?
The next year, she won a starring 役割 in comedy-演劇 movie Last Call, playing a suicidal woman called Alexandra and 収入 批判的な plaudits for her work.
It was in that year, 2020, that Maria would have her first major 打開, 存在 cast as Tutar Sagdiyev in いたずら comedy?Borat その後の Moviefilm.
Her 役割 as the daughter of fictional Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev (成し遂げるd by?Sacha Baron Cohen) won her 批判的な acclaim.
A review of the film by IGN?said: 'The film's fantastic find, Maria Bakalova, every bit Sacha Baron Cohen's on-審査する equal, is who, and what, most people will be talking about.'
The actress is snapped …に出席するing?Louis Vuitton's 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries: The 展示 in July 2022 in California
The 星／主役にする co-設立するd her own 生産／産物 company, Five Oceans, in a 企て，努力，提案 to bring more Eastern European stories to international audiences (pictured at?the San Diego Comic-反対／詐欺 2022)
にもかかわらず not (yet) 存在 a 世帯 指名する, Maria (pictured …に出席するing the 首相 of 団体／死体s 団体／死体s 団体／死体s?during the 2022 SXSW 会議／協議会 and Festival in Texas) has 達成するd a remarkable 量 of success in her career so far
Speaking to the New York Times during her 2020 interview with the 出口, the actress spoke of her 感謝 at 上陸 the part, 公式文書，認めるing that Bulgarian actors are not often 申し込む／申し出d these types of 役割s.
She 追加するd that the usual 選択s for performers from her country 含む small bit parts 'like a 売春婦 or a マフィア guy', with just two or three lines.
Maria thanked Sacha for giving the 壇・綱領・公約 to an Eastern European actor, and for giving her the 適切な時期 to play a nuanced and strong character.
述べるd as 'the most impactful piece of political entertainment', the film earned Maria her first 学院 Award 指名／任命, 同様に as 指名／任命s for a Golden Globe award, a SAG award, a Critics Choice award, and a BAFTA.
She made history by becoming the first Bulgarian actor to be 指名するd for these prestigious awards.
While she 行方不明になるd out on winning the gongs (instead 選ぶing up a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress), the 指名／任命s were an 承認 of her talent, and she 成し遂げるd in 非常に／多数の movies over the next few years.
Maria (pictured at the?後見人s of the 星雲 Vol. 3' film 首相, Los Angeles in April 2023) has 以前 spoken out about the 欠如（する） of film 役割s for Eastern Europeans
The actress (pictured appearing in the horror film 団体／死体s 団体／死体s 団体／死体s) has 表明するd her 感謝 to Sasha Baron Cohen for casting her in the Borat sequel and giving her a nuanced 役割
によれば Maria (pictured with Anna Wintour …に出席するing?the Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture 落ちる/Winter 2021/2022 show in Paris) most Eastern European 役割s are 限られた／立憲的な to 'mafia guys and 売春婦s'
の中で them, she played an HIV-肯定的な woman in 否定 about her 条件 in 2021 演劇 Women Do Cry. The film, which received a 肯定的な 批判的な 歓迎会 選ぶd up?a Queer Palm 指名／任命 at the?Cannes Film Festival that year.
The に引き続いて year, she starred と一緒に Pete Davidson in the 2022 horror movie 団体／死体s 団体／死体s 団体／死体s, and was part of the ensemble cast in Judd Apatow's The 泡, where she 行為／法令／行動するd with?Karen Gillan, David Duchovny, Leslie Mann and Pedro Pascal.
Also in 2022, she did the 発言する／表明する of Cosmo the Spacedog in The 後見人s of the 星雲 Holiday Special and starred in romcom?The Honeymoon. In 2023, she was featured in coming of age 演劇 Fairyland.
同様に as her 役割 in 高度に 心配するd film The 見習い工, Maria is also 始める，決める to 星／主役にする in?true 罪，犯罪 film Branded, about the origins of the?Aryan Brotherhood. She will co-produce 同様に as play the lead.
その上の 近づいている 生産／産物s 含む??活動／戦闘 thriller film Dirty Angels,?sci-fi comedy 演劇 O Horizon, and?Apple TV+ 活動／戦闘 adventure film Mayday.
Maria, who was 含むd in Variety's 2020 '10 Actors to Watch' 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）, not only 行為／法令／行動するs, but also produces.
Through her 生産／産物 work, she 支持するs for?Bulgarian and Eastern European 代表 in Hollywood.
As the co-fo under of Five Oceans 生産／産物 company, she 目的（とする）s to show stories from these 地域s to international audiences.
Actor Maria Bakalova (pictured at a?行方不明になる Dior Perfume 開始する，打ち上げる event in West Hollywood) has 獲得するd award 指名／任命s の中で other plaudits, 含むing 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs on two of Forbes magazine's 年次の 30 under 30 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）s
Maria (pictured …に出席するing The Hollywood Reporter 2021 力／強力にする 100 Women in Entertainment in Los Angeles) was also 含むd in Variety's 2020 '10 Actors to Watch' 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）
同様に as The 見習い工, Maria has a 予定する of 近づいている 生産／産物s, 含むing a film she is co-producing and playing the lead in - true 罪，犯罪 movie Branded (pictured at Cannes Film Festival with The Appentice director?Ali Abbasi)
Thanks to her impressive 業績／成就s, in 2021, she was 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d as on two of Forbes magazine's 年次の 30 Under 30 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）s. The same year, she was 称讃するd by Variety as 存在 の中で the women who have made an 衝撃 on 全世界の entertainment.
However, 権利 now, it is?The 見習い工 that is 獲得するing headlines, and 存在 述べるd as another 打開 役割 for the 星／主役にする.
The 見習い工 shows Trump 繁栄するing during the 早期に years of his 商売／仕事 career, in the 70s and 80s, and showcases his working 関係 with 議論の的になる lawyer Roy Cohn, who died of an エイズ-関係のある illness in 1986.?
Sebastian Stan plays Trump as a younger man and Succession 星／主役にする Jeremy Strong, portrays Roy Cohn, who 行為／法令／行動するd as a 助言者 to the younger Trump, but was disbarred in 1986 for defrauding a dying （弁護士の）依頼人.
The film also 描写するs the end of Trump's marriage to Ivana, and features a scene where she 申し込む／申し出s him a 調書をとる／予約する about how to be a better lover.?
Trump is shown telling her that he no longer finds her attractive. He 強姦s her and then asks 'did I find your g 位置／汚点／見つけ出す?'
同様に as her Oscar nod, Maria (pictured at the?Women Do Cry photocall at?Cannes Film Festival in 2021), she has also received 指名／任命s for a BAFTA, SAG Award, and Golden Globe for her 役割 in the Borat sequel
Earlier this year, Maria (pictured at the Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture 落ちる/Winter 2021/2022 show in Paris ) was cast in?Apple TV+ 活動／戦闘 adventure film Mayday
Maria, who started 事実上の／代理 lessons when she was 12-years-old, later said she did so because she '手配中の，お尋ね者 to 調査する more. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to escape from reality. Because in 事実上の／代理, you can become anybody. You can do everything' (pictured at the 2021 学院 Awards in Los Angeles)
In a 離婚 deposition in 1989 Ivana made an 告訴，告発 of 強姦 but 無効にするd this in 2015. She has since died.?
The 見習い工 is directed by the Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, who 発射 the 批判的に acclaimed Persian-language 罪，犯罪 thriller 宗教上の Spider, 解放（する）d in 2022.??
Variety 最初 報告（する）／憶測d that the film's 肩書を与える would be The Student, 追加するing that a logline for the 来たるべき film 述べるd it as 'an 探検 of 力／強力にする and ambition 始める，決める in a world of 汚職 and deceit.
'It's a 助言者-prot?g? story that charts the origins of an American 王朝. Filled with larger than life characters, it 明らかにする／漏らすs the moral and human cost of a culture defined by 勝利者s and losers.'
The screenplay for the film was written by Gabriel Sherman, who authored the 2014 調書をとる／予約する The Loudest 発言する／表明する in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News ? and Divided a Country.
In Ivana Trump's 1990 離婚 deposition, she 明言する／公表するd that Mr Trump 強姦d her. She （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that Trump 押し進めるd her to the 床に打ち倒す and pulled out several handfuls of her hair.
Mr Trump 否定するd the 主張 and Ivana Trump later said she did not mean it literally, but rather that she had felt 侵害する／違反するd.?
REAL LIFE: The real Ivana (pictured, left) was married to Donald Trump (pictured, 権利) from 1977 to 1990
The 見習い工 also 星／主役にするs actor Sebastian Stan (pictured), who plays Trump as a younger man during the 70s and 80s
Trump 確認するd 経由で a spokesperson that he 計画（する）s to take 合法的な 活動／戦闘 over The 見習い工 film (pictured L-R:?Sebastian Stan and Maria Baklava on the 始める，決める of the movie in Toronto)
?In a 1993 声明, she said, 'On one occasion during 1989, Mr Trump and I had 結婚の／夫婦の relations in which he behaved very 異なって に向かって me than he had during our marriage.?
'As a woman I felt 侵害する／違反するd … I referred to this as a 強姦, but I do not want my words to be 解釈する／通訳するd in a literal or 犯罪の sense.'?
Speaking about Trump's 意向 to take 合法的な 活動／戦闘 against the film, the former 大統領，／社長's （選挙などの）運動をする?長，指導者 spokesperson Steven Cheung said: 'This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been long debunked.
'As with the 違法な Biden 裁判，公判s, this is 選挙 干渉，妨害 by Hollywood エリートs, who know that 大統領 Trump will 奪い返す the White House and （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 their 候補者 of choice because nothing they have done has worked.
'This ‘film’ is pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a 取引 貯蔵所 at a soon-to-be-の近くにd 割引 movie 蓄える／店, it belongs in a dumpster 解雇する／砲火／射撃.'
