Russian actress
She has been called the Russian Julia Roberts because of her stunning beauty.
She has been called the Russian Audrey Hepburn because of the endearing feminine vulnerability she projects through the characters she portrays.
She is a graduate of the prestigious Moscow Arts Theater (MXAT) School, which she attended from 1991-1995. (Each year, the MXAT School accepts only 20-30 students from several thousand applicants.)
After graduating from the MXAT School, she was asked to join the Chekhov Moscow Arts Theater (Chekhov MXAT) Stage Troupe, where she was a stage actress from 1996 until she left in 2000.
She won Best Actress at the 1995 Moscow Theatrical Debuts Festival for her stage performance as Tatiana Borodina in Slawomir Mrozek s "Love in the Crimea" at the Chekhov Moscow Arts Theater (Chekhov MXAT).
She has a son, Timur, born in 1990, from her first marriage to Moscow theater director, Ansar Khalilunin.
She is fluent in Russian, her native language, and English, which she has studied for several years and speaks at home with her husband, Swiss/English director Louis Franck.
Her passport lists her name as Dianna Alexandrovna Korzun-Franck.
She is included in the book "Zvezdy nashego kino" ("Stars of Our Cinema") (Moscow AST-Press, 2002), an encyclopedia of Russian film actors. Her listing, by Yekaterina Amirkhanova, is entitled "Ona modzhet byt razoj" ("She Can Be Different").
Last Resort was filmed without a script. Given only a basic outline of each scene by director Pawel Pawlikowski , she improvised both the Russian and English dialogue of her character, Tanya.
