Oksana Anatolyevna Mysina (Russian: Окса́на Анато́льевна Мы́сина) (born 15 March 1961, Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, USSR) is an actor, director and musician.
Her father Anatoly Vladimirovich Mysin, later to be a mining engineer, and her mother Lidia Grigoryevna Mysina (Bratus), subsequently a seismologist, grew up and were married in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro).
"[6] She subsequently studied professionally at the Shchepkin Institute of the Maly Theater under the famed Mikhail Tsaryov, who had acted for Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1930s.
During this tenure she achieved her first international exposure, performing the title role in Lyudmila Razumovskaya's play Dear Yelena Sergeevna on tours to the BITEF festival in Serbia in 1989, and Chicago[8] and Los Angeles[9] in 1990.
[27] She was the first Russian-language performer of the Narrator in the Russian premiere of Valère Novarina's contemporary avant-garde classic The Imaginary Operetta at the School of Dramatic Art (2010).
She founded her own theater, the Oksana Mysina Theatrical Brotherhood (2001-2010),[28] directing and acting in two plays by Viktor Korkiya, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the Island of Taganrog, and Ariston, based on the myth of Oedipus.
She was the first performer in roles of plays by numerous contemporary playwrights, including Lyudmila Razumovskaya, Yevgeny Kozlovsky, Alexei Kazantsev, Maksym Kurochkin, Korkiya, Alexander Chugunov, Vadim Levanov, Klim (pseudonym of Vladimir Klimenko), and Kira Malinina.
In Oleg Babitsky and Yury Goldin's television movie of Mikhail Bulgakov's Theatrical Novel (2003), she offered an eccentric interpretation of Polixena.
Her performance as Elzbieta in Alexei Zernov's ironic TV mini-series All or Nothing, based on Joanna Chmielewska's Wszystko czerwona (All Red), was first aired in 2004.
Mysina performed the lead in Arkady Sirenko's made-for TV movie Wilting-Failing, based on stories by Vasily Shukshin (2004).
She performed in Andrei Eshpai, Jr.'s TV mini-series of Anatoly Rybakov's novel The Children of the Arbat (2004) and in Yury Kara's Star of the Age (2005) in which she played the legendary Russian actress Serafima Birman.
In 2012 Ainars Virga, the leader of famed Latvian band Līvi, joined Oxy Rocks for a series of concerts in Moscow.
"[47] She supported Alexei Navalny in Moscow's mayoral election in 2013,[48] and has frequently spoken out against the persecution of Russian historian Yury A.
[55] In May of the same year, together with other participants in a discussion platform titled "Round Table on 12 December", she issued a "Statement on the situation in the country, the responsibility of civil society and political elites", which declared that Russia was in "a transition to a fascist-type totalitarian regime is taking place".
Belarus (2020), based on a play by Andrei Kureichik, exposed the horrors of the failed Minsk Revolution in 2020 (2020-2021 Belarusian protests); Voices of the New Belarus (2021), based on a verbatim play by Andrei Kureichik about imprisoned Belarusian protesters, features a performance by Russian politician Ilya Yashin who, himself, was sentenced to eight years in prison in December 2022; Escape (2022), a true-life film short about a refugee from the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Love is Stronger than Fear (2022), a short version of Voices of the New Belarus; and Cherry Orchard.
by Doug Howe, in the Long Distance Affair project produced online worldwide by The Internationalists (2011) and PopUp Theatrics (2013).
2013 — The Bloody Lady Daria Saltykova by Vadim Levanov, a staged reading at Open Story Project at the Russian Theater Union, Moscow.
by Georgy Shengeliya – Elena Grakina [All sources list Oksana's participation in this film, and so it is included here, although her scenes were left on the cutting floor] 8.
1995 – Golden Ram award in the "Hope" category at the Kinotavr film festival for her role as Inna in A Play for a Passenger.
2001 – SPOLOKHI (Flash) award at the III TV Feature-Film Festival in Arkhangelsk for her role as Tatyana Yermakova in Family Secrets.
2012 – Special President's Prize at 10th annual Amur Autumn Russian Film and Theater Festival in Blagoveshchensk, Russia, for her performance of the Poetess in The Admirer.
2023 – Atlantis International Internet Short Film Festival (New York) bestows a Grand Prix award on Love is Stronger than Fear in the Cinema For Human Rights category.
2023 – Atlantis International Internet Short Film Festival (New York) bestows a Grand Prix award on Escape in the Cinema Against War category.
2023 – Flowers Against Bullets festival (Vienna) awards Best Music Score (composer Sergei Kuchmenko) to Love is Stronger than Fear.
2023 – Festival de Indie (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) declares Escape winners in two categories: Best Real-life Documentary Film, Best Original Score (Sergei Kuchmenko).
2023 – Festival de Indie (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) bestows the Critics Award: Documentary Filmmaker on Oksana Mysina for Escape.
2023 – Silver Mask Live Festival (Los Angeles) names Oksana Mysina Best Director for Red, Blue and Asya.
2024 - Art Film Awards in Skopje, North Macedonia gives How to Survive Autumn an Honorable Mention, and names Molly a Finalist.
2025 - Eastern Europe Film Festival awards Ketty Koraka a Best Actress - Honorable Mention for A Woman and her Angels.
2007 – "Potion for Eternal Love," Oksana Mysina and Oxy Rocks perform at Eldar Ryazanov's 80th birthday bash in Moscow.