Maria Bakalova
Maria Valcheva Bakalova (born 4 June 1996) is a Bulgarian actress. She is best known for her role as Tutar Sagdiyev in the 2020 mockumentary Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. For her performance in the film, she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received nominations at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Born and raised in Burgas, Bakalova began her career in Bulgarian cinema by starring in film productions while attending the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. She appeared in films such as Transgression (2017), The Father (2019), Last Call (2020) and Women Do Cry (2021). Since her international breakthrough in 2020, she has been a part of several American productions including Judd Apatow's The Bubble (2022) and the A24 horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Bad Guys 2 as Pigtail (voice)
- 2024 · Dirty Angels as The Bomb
- 2024 · Creature Commandos as Princess Ilana / Old Woman (voice)
- 2024 · Creature Commandos as Princess Ilana (voice)
- 2024 · The Apprentice as Ivana Trump
- 2024 · Triumph as Slava Platnikova
- 2024 · Unfrosted as Rada Adzhubey
- 2024 · Juego de sombras as Muse
- 2024 · Electra as Francesca
- 2023 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as Self - 'Cosmo' (archive footage)
- 2023 · Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as Cosmo (voice)
- 2023 · Fairyland as Paulette
- 2022 · The Honeymoon as Sarah
- 2022 · The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special as Cosmo the Dog (voice)
- 2022 · Bodies Bodies Bodies as Bee
- 2022 · The Bubble as Anika
- 2022 · I Don't Like You as
- 2022 · Women Do Cry as Sonja
- 2021 · Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed “Sub-Acceptable” by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision as Tutar Sagdiyev
- 2021 · Borat’s American Lockdown & Debunking Borat as Tutar
- 2020 · Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
- 2020 · Last Call as Alexandra
- 2020 · The Father as Valentina
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2018 · Transgression as Yana
- 2018 · Angels as Angela
- 2017 · XIIa as Milena
- 2016 · Showdown in Manila as Exchange Student
- 2013 · Tipichno as Maria
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Mayday as
- Future · All Night Wrong as Ell
- Future · Untitled Spy Comedy as
- Future · Floodplain as
- Future · God's Country as
- Future · My Masterpiece as
- Future · O Horizon as Abby
- Future · Branded as Lilly
- Future · Birdseye as Nina