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Olesya Rulin Profile |
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Birth Date: March 17, 1986
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Birth Place: Moscow, Russia
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Birth Name: Olesya Rulin
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Height: 5'0"
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Biography |
Olesya Rulin is a Russian-American actress and singer who is
perhaps best known for co-starring in High School Musical
and High School Musical 2 as Kelsi Neilsen, and she is set
to star alongside Jessica Simpson in Major Movie Star. Rulin
will also be appearing together with Billy Ray Cyrus in the
new drama Flying By. Rulin is also set to reprise her role
as Kelsi Nielsen in High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
Rulin spent her early childhood in a poor, 12-house village
which is called 'Likhoslavl' located three hours north of
Moscow. She was eight when she immigrated to the United
States to rejoin her father who had immigrated two years
earlier. They lived first in Texas then later in Utah. She
can read, write and speak in fluent Russian. She's also a
trained ballet dancer. When she was 12, she entered a model
search contest at the urging of her mother and won
representation by four different agencies. Prior to acting
full-time, she worked for a year as a certified nursing
assistant and also at stores such as Victoria's Secret[4];
she was working at a Nordstrom's when the first High School
Musical came out. She was studying economics in Paris when
the casting for High School Musical 2 was being done. She is
currently attending Columbia College Chicago and is majoring
in Musical Theatre, with a minor in Marketing Communication.
In addition to her role in High School Musical and High
School Musical 2, her other credits include the Disney
Channel Original Movies Halloweentown High, The Poof Point
and Hounded, the television series Everwood and the feature
films Forever Strong, Mobsters and Mormons and The Dance.
Rulin's part in High School Musical 2 was significantly
larger than the first movie, including a solo in "You Are
The Music In Me" and a few lines in "Work This Out". Rulin
will reprise her role as Kelsi Nielsen in High School
Musical 3: Senior Year, scheduled to be released in 2008.
Rulin is also set to star alongside Jessica Simpson in Major
Movie Star. Rulin will also be starring with Hannah Montana
co-star Billy Ray Cyrus in a drama, which though completed
has yet to be released. She will play the supportive
daughter of a businessman (Cyrus) alongside Oscar winner
Patricia Neal, Robert Gossett (TNT's The Closer), Eric Allan
Kramer (American Wedding) and Ted Hutton in a
family-friendly indie feature. |
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Other
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Originally from Russia, she can read, write, & speak fluent
Russian.
She's a trained ballet dancer and model.
Like Kelsi, her character in High School Musical, she can
play the piano. |
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since September 29, 2008