Theater actress Uvarova jumped to fame when the series “Ne Rodis Krasivoy” first appeared on television screens across Russia and Ukraine and almost instantly earned top ratings. I myself got interested in the show after accidentally seeing its end titles, which said that it was based on Colombian soap opera Yo Soy Betty, La Fea (I’m Betty, the Ugly). I ended up watching the entire series, even though I had to miss quite a few episodes with my work, it’s hard to always be home by eight. Moreover, my mom watched it too, as well as my younger brother, who normally doesn’t watch soaps, which means there was something especially enthralling about this one. Even for me, ‘Ne Rodis Krasivoy’ was exceptional. This soap opera was quite different from others in its genre. It avoided typical characters and plotlines like lost children, amnesiacs, crazy villains, and murders. In fact, its only villain was more comic than evil, the episodes were always full of hilarious sequences, and the acting for the most part was really good.

A curious detail while the series was on the air featuring Uvarova in her ‘ugly’ phase, the actress wasn’t allowed to appear in public looking her usual pretty self. She even had to hide her face completely under a veil when she got married.

by Alexandra Matoshko, Kyiv Post Staff Writer

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