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Maria Bakalova

Maria Valcheva Bakalova (born 4 June 1996) is a Bulgarian actress. She is best known for her role as Tutar Sagdiyev in the 2020 mockumentary Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. For her performance in the film, she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received nominations at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Born and raised in Burgas, Bakalova began her career in Bulgarian cinema by starring in film productions while attending the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. She appeared in films such as Transgression (2017), The Father (2019), Last Call (2020) and Women Do Cry (2021). Since her international breakthrough in 2020, she has been a part of several American productions including Judd Apatow's The Bubble (2022) and the A24 horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022).


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Born:
Jun 4, 1996 In Burgas, Bulgaria
Movie/TV Credits:
37
First Appeared:
In the movie Mayday
Latest Project:
Movie Dirty Angels 2024-12-11
Known For
Poster of Creature Commandos
Poster of Juego de sombras
Poster of Borat’s American Lockdown & Debunking Borat
Poster of Mayday
Filmography
Movie O Horizon Abby 2025
Movie God's Country 2025
Movie Floodplain 2025
Movie Branded Lilly 2025
Movie Birdseye Nina 2025
Movie Untitled Spy Comedy 2025
Movie My Masterpiece 2025
Movie Mayday 2025
Movie The Apprentice Ivana Trump 2024-10-09
Series Creature Commandos Princess Ilana (voice) 2024-12-05
Movie Triumph Slava 2024-09-08
Movie Unfrosted Rada Adzhubey 2024-04-30
Movie Electra Francesca 2024-02-09
Movie Juego de sombras Muse 2024-03-19
Movie Dirty Angels The Bomb 2024-12-11
Movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Cosmo (voice) 2023-05-03
Movie Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Self - 'Cosmo' (archive footage) 2023-09-12
Movie Fairyland Paulette 2023-01-20
Movie Bodies Bodies Bodies Bee 2022-08-05
Movie The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Cosmo the Dog (voice) 2022-11-24
Movie The Honeymoon Sarah 2022-12-16
Movie The Bubble Anika 2022-03-25
Movie I Don't Like You 2022-03-16
Movie Women Do Cry Sonja 2022-03-09
Movie Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed “Sub-Acceptable” by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision Tutar Sagdiyev 2021-05-25
Series Borat’s American Lockdown & Debunking Borat Tutar 2021-05-24
Movie Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Tutar Sagdiyev 2020-10-23
Movie Last Call Alexandra 2020-08-22
Movie The Father Valentina 2020-08-21
Series The Kelly Clarkson Show Unknown 2019-09-09
Movie Transgression Yana 2018-08-28
Movie Angels Angela 2018-05-02
Movie XIIa Milena 2017-09-15
Movie Showdown in Manila Exchange Student 2016-02-18
Series The View Self - Guest 1997-08-11
Series LIVE with Kelly and Mark Self - Guest 1988-09-05
Series The Oscars Self 1953-03-19