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Anna Ador was born Anastasiya Hamolka on Wednesday, 23 March 1994 (age 29 years; as of 2023) in Minsk, capital of Belarus, Russia. At the age of seven, she joined an Indian dance group in Minsk. She learned Indian Classical and Bollywood dance. When she was thirteen, she participated in many dance and acting performances and traveled across Lithuania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Poland, etc. In 2010, she came to India for the wedding of her friend, and took up an acting graduation course in Delhi, rather than going back to her country. There she started learning about the aspects of acting, editing, and direction.
Childhood photograph of Anna Ador
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 4″
Weight (approx.): 50 kg
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Eye Colour: Hazel Green
Family
Anna Ador belongs to a family of academicians but she decided to become an artist.
Parents & Siblings
Anna Ador’s mother played a crucial role in shaping her career. Her mother supported her since childhood from enrolling Anna in dance class to sending her to India for her acting career.
Anna Ador with her mother
Career
Films
Anna Ador started her film career in the year 2016. She began with the Punjabi historical film, “Saka: The Martyrs of Nankana Sahib,” in which she played the character of Susan, released on 8 April 2016. In the film, Fredrick, released in the month of May, she played a role of a secret agent. In June 2016, Anna Ador got a small role as Gothic Chick in Shahid Kapoor’s starer “Udta Punjab”. Later, in November 2016, the Gujarati film, “Passport,” was released, in which Anna Ador had a lead role named Anna Bella Goldsmith. In the year 2017, Anna acted in “Gurgaon,” a crime story, and “Qaidi Band,” a musical drama. Her film “No Means No” got released in 2022, in which she played a main character.
Poster of the film Qaidi Band
Tv Series
In 2017, Anna got a chance to share the screen with RajKummar Rao in the series “Bose: Dead/Alive”, based on the mystery of the death of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the series won numerous accolades for Best Web Series, Best Art Direction, etc. She played a main role in the series “Lock’d IN.” She played a great role in a Netflix series “Aranyak,” broadcasted in 2021. Anna Ador acted in the top-rated episode of the most-watched series of 2023 in India, “Farzi.” She also appeared in the top-rated MX player web series “Campus Diaries.”
Anna Ador with Rajkummar Rao on the sets of Bose
Theatre
Apart from acting in films and tv series, Anna Ador is also a theatre artist. She has done some well-known plays like “Jannat Central,” written by Trishla Patel, in 2017, and “Detective 9-2-11,” directed by famous director, Atul Kumar. She appeared in the act, Sounding Vanya, inspired by the play “Uncle Vanya,” written by the Russian playwriter, Anton Chekhov. She does theatre on a regular basis and has appeared in many more shows like “The Lesson,” Macbeth,” ” Hamlet,” and “Cat Among the Pigeons,” in India as well as abroad.
Poster of Play Jannat Central
Poster of Play Detective Nau Do Gyarah
Facts/Trivia
- She has done a small role in the 2021 Oscar-nominated film “The White Tiger.”
- She has appeared in the film”Batti Gul Meter Chalu,” starring Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, and Yami Gautam.
- Other than having a career in acting, Anna has directed some short films as well like “No Lift,” and “Sthir.”
Poster of the short film No Lift
- She has been an executive producer for films “Parikatha,” and “Three and a Half.”
- She takes acting workshops to teach how to act to aspiring actors.
- At the age of 15, she got a scholarship to study at New York Film Academy, but unfortunately, she couldn’t get a visa to go to the USA.
- Since childhood, she was interested in watching Hindi films and developed a good command of the language.
- In her struggling period in India, Anna worked as a bartender and played dhol at Indian weddings.
- She took a ten-day intensive course to learn Gujarati for her film ” Passport.”
- In an interview, she revealed that she used Ana as her nickname after coming to India as a short name for Anastasiya, which turned out as Anna, and she added Ador as a pseudonym to it.