Today actress Tanya Shakhova celebrates her 65th birthday.
She was born in Sofia on October 17, 1959. Even before finishing school, she played one of the main roles in the movie "Trampa" directed by Georgi Dyulgerov.
Then he entered NATFIZ, Sofia and graduated in 1982 with a major in acting in the class of Prof. Nikolay Lyutskanov and his assistant Margarita Mladenova.
Her graduation performance was the role of Antigone in the play “Antigone” by Jean Anouy, directed by Georgi Dyulgerov. After that, Tanya Shakhova became an actress in the troupe of the Dimitrovgrad Theater, where she played two more significant roles: Eliza Doolittle in “Pygmalion” by Bernard Shaw, directed by Georgi Dyulgerov and Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare, directed by Margarita. Mladenova.
In 1983, Tanya Shakhova received the award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists for a promising young actress. He became an associate of the "Sfumato" Theater, where he performed until 2000. In the "Sfumato" Theater Lubomir Mladenov and Vladimir Penev directed her first play "Amant". Tanya Shakhova is the author of documentary plays "The day that changed my life", "Twenty years later", "Souls", she wrote the scripts for documentaries "And we were knights", "Box", "Love is..." .
Her play "Two" was staged at the National Theatre.
Shakhova also participated as an actress in a number of films, including "The Big Night Bathing", "I, the Countess", "Margarita and Margarita", "Clinic on the Third Floor" etc.