Biography

Marija Linarte (born 8 March 1993, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian stage, film, and television actress, as well as a director. She studied at the Latvian Academy of Culture and joined the ensemble of The New Riga Theatre (JRT) in 2018, where she performed until leaving the company in 2024. She has received multiple nominations at the Latvian Theatre Awards ("Spēlmaņu nakts") — for Best Debut (2013), Best Young Stage Artist (2017), and Best Actress (2020) — and won the "Big Kristaps" national film award in 2018. In 2023 she also directed the stage production Battle of Giants at JRT. Her film credits include Nun Beth in Welcome to Mercy (2018), Marta Ozolina in the Latvian historical feature 1906 (2019), and the lead in Alexander Hahn's Taurins Senior (2023). Her most prominent role to date is Anastasia Chekova in Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) (Paul Dano, Jude Law), which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival.