Photo: Siim Vahur / Vaba LavaYulia Aug
raised in Narva, Estonia; Estonian roots on her father's side
Yulia Aug grew up in Narva, Estonia, with Estonian roots on her father's side.
- Kinotavr best actress
- TEFI for Ekaterina, 2015
- Serebrennikov's The Student
- Creative director, Vaba Lava Narva
- Eisenstein, Estonian Drama Theatre
“I can't throw out any part of myself: not the Estonian, the Swedish, the Jewish or the Russian.”
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She trained as an actress at the Leningrad theatre institute (LGITMiK) and joined St. Petersburg's Bryantsev Youth Theatre. On screen she appeared in Alexei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls and Kirill Serebrennikov's The Student.
Intimate Parts won her best actress at Kinotavr, and Empress Elizabeth in the series Ekaterina won her a TEFI. In spring 2022 she took an anti-war stand and left Russia for Estonia. She is now creative director of Vaba Lava in Narva, where she makes documentary theatre, almost all of it in Estonian.
At the Estonian Drama Theatre she directed Eisenstein, a play by Mikhail Durnenkov. In his Healing she plays Anna, daughter of a charity's founder, at the Edmonds Center for the Arts on May 18, 2027.
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