Natalya Yeprikyan
Natalya Yeprikyan is a comedy actress, television presenter and producer, best known as the creator of the Russian television comedy show Comedy Woman, in which she performed and wrote from 2008 to 2020. She was born on 19 April 1978 in Tbilisi, then in the Georgian SSR, into a Russian-speaking Georgian Armenian family, and went to a physics and mathematics gymnasium there. She lived in Tbilisi until she was fourteen, when economic hardship, rising nationalism and civil war led her family to move to Moscow, where they received the status of forced migrants. She became a Russian citizen at seventeen and graduated from the Russian University of Economics as a mathematician-economist. Yeprikyan made her name in KVN, as a member of the team Megapolis from 2004 to 2007. With the team she won the KVN Premier League in 2004 and the Major League in 2005, and in 2005 she also received the Small KiViN in Light award. In 2006 she created a club comedy project called Made in Woman. From 21 November 2008 the show began airing on the TNT channel, and it was later renamed Comedy Woman. She also worked as a dialogue writer on the TNT sitcom Univer, in one episode of which she appeared as the head of Comedy Woman. From 27 August to 10 September 2012 she presented the morning programme NTV Utrom on the NTV channel, and in July 2015 she appeared in the music video for the song Lada Sedan by Rekord Orkestr. Since 2020 she has lived mainly in Armenia, where she produces film and television projects. She has a younger brother, Garik, who is a musician.
