Anna Ador

Some Lesser Known Facts About Anna Ador

• Anna Ador is a Belarusian artist who worked in various Bollywood films and TV series. She is a theatre artist as well. She is famous for her character Emilie Schenkl in the web series Bose: Dead/Alive (2017) and Svetalana in the web series Farzi (2023).

• Anna Ador chose to become an artist in spite of having a family of academicians because since her childhood she was very much inclined towards watching films and learning to dance.

• As a kid, she liked to watch Bollywood films and learnt the Hindi language while watching.

  

• Anna’s mother helped her to learn dancing and acting throughout her career; her mother enrolled her in a dancing group in Minsk when Anna was seven years old where she learnt Indian Classical and Bollywood dance.

• Being a teenager, she travelled to various countries like Lithuania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Poland, etc to take part in dance and acting competitions.

• At the age of fifteen, Anna lost the chance to take benefit of the scholarship she earned to study at the New York Film Academy because she did not get a visa.

• In 2010, she first time came to India to attend the wedding of a friend but stayed back to join an acting class in Delhi rather than going back.

• Anna Ador debuted her film career with a Punjabi historic film “Saka: The Martyrs of Nankana Sahib” in 2016 and played the role of Susan.

• She played the main lead, Anna Bella Goldsmith in the Gujarati film Passport (2016). She learnt Gujarati for the film in just ten days.

  

• She appeared in the role of a secret agent in the film Fredrick (2016).

• She appeared in the role of a Gothic chick in the famous Hindi film Udta Punjab (2016).

• She appeared in various films like Gurgaon (2017), Qaidi Band (2017), and Batti Gul Meter Chalu (2018).

• She was part of an Oscar-nominated film The White Tiger (2021).

• She has done various television series for which she became popular among the audience.

• She played the role of the wife of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Emilie Schenkl in the web series Bose: Dead/Alive released in 2017.

• In 2021, she appeared as Natalia Petrova in the series “Lock’d IN” and Aimee Baptiste in the Netflix series “Aranyak.”

  

• She was part of the 2022 top-rated MX player series “Campus Diaries“; played the role of Chloe.

• She does theatre as well. IN 2017, she appeared in the plays named “Jannat Central,” written by Trishla Patel and “Detective 9-2-11,” directed by Atul Kumar.

  

• She has done a play called Sounding Vanya, imitating the play “Uncle Vanya,” written by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

• She has done various plays like “The Lesson,” Macbeth,” ” Hamlet,” and “Cat Among the Pigeons.”

• She often organises acting workshops.

• Anna has directed two short films named “No Lift,” and “Sthir.”

• She was an executive producer for the films “Parikatha,” and “Three and a Half.”

• She even worked as a bartender and played dhol at Indian weddings in her struggling period in India.

• She used Ana as a short name for her real name Anastasiya and added Ador as a pseudonym to it.

• Her favourite quotes are “Live each day like it is a memory in making” and “To be able to love one another, we must pray much, for prayer gives a clean heart, and a clean heart can see God in our neighbour.” – Mother Teresa

• Anna loves to do skating since her childhood as she posted
  

  I remember how I used to skate in my neighboured in Minsk. I was 8 or 9, but the skates I had were two sizes bigger. Solution was very simple: stuff them with socks inside and make sure you balance yourself right. The sight of me was hilarious. Two little “stick like legs” planted in the skates half of my own size. But the smile on my face at that time… can not replicate that till date.”

  

• She likes to travel and often posts photos on social media.

  

• She is a fitness enthusiast and practices Mudra Yoga.