Zhanna Friske

Zhanna Friske is one of the brightest stars of Russian show business. During her short life, she made a fast-paced career. Soloist of the star line-up of the "Brilliant" group, singer, film actress, TV presenter, participant in several high-profile television projects and an incredibly beautiful woman, whom many compatriots called a sex symbol. Jeanne looked like a bright comet that lit up the sky with warm light and left a gentle smile in her memory.

The meeting of the parents of the future star took place in 1973. Artist and employee of the Moscow House of Arts Vladimir Friske saw the Ural beauty Olga Kopylova on one of Moscow streets. A smiling girl fell in love with a Muscovite at first sight.

With the wedding, the couple decided not to delay. Less than six months later, marriage stamps appeared in their passports. Vladimir took his wife's surname and became Kopylov. In the mid-1990s, when Zhanna began her career in show business, she took the surname of her grandmother, the Volga German woman Paulina Wilhelmovna Friske, for her stage name.

In July 1974, twins appeared in the Kopylov family - a boy and a girl. The twins were born prematurely, in the seventh month of pregnancy. Unfortunately, the son was diagnosed with a congenital pathology. The boy died soon after. But the girl, named Jeanne, managed to dispel the grief of her parents. The baby was like a ray of light. At baptism she received the name Anna.

Zhanna Kopylova, it seems, was born an artist. The baby showed good hearing and a beautiful voice. She was called to school amateur performances. And the girl knew how to dance, so from childhood she attended a sports dance school and a ballet studio. And she also managed to do rhythmic gymnastics and acrobatics.

When Zhanna was 12 years old, she had a sister, Natalya. When the younger sister grew up, the girls became real friends. Parents raised their daughters in severity.

After graduating from school 406 in the metropolitan area of ​​Perovo, Zhanna Kopylova became a student at the Moscow University for the Humanities. She chose the Faculty of Journalism. But already in the third year she realized that she was not interested here. Therefore, without regret, I left the university and went to look for my place in the sun.

In search of earnings, Zhanna got a job as a sales manager for office furniture in one of the capital's firms. Later she began teaching choreography at the Sports Palace.

According to one version, Zhanna came to the "Brilliant" group thanks to her acquaintance with Olga Orlova in 1995. According to another version - Kopylova was invited by producer Andrei Gromov in 1996. He knew that the girl was professionally engaged in choreography, and the group at that time needed a consultant.

After several rehearsals, the producer realized that Zhanna perfectly "fits" into the team of "brilliant". Bright appearance, ability to move, pleasant voice - she had everything necessary for a singer's career. The girl took the stage name Zhanna Friske and in May 1997 became the fourth participant in the "Brilliant" pop project. At that time, Olga Orlova, Polina Iodis and Varvara Koroleva were already working in the girl band. Soon one of the "sparkles" - Varvara - left the group. Irina Lukyanova took her place.

It cannot be said that Zhanna Friske's father was delighted with his daughter's decision to become a singer and lead a touring life. But seeing the successes of the fiery quartet and the rapidly growing popularity of the girls, he realized that the eldest daughter had found her way.

Together with the group "Brilliant" Zhanna Friske took part in the recording of the disc "Just Dreams", which appeared in 1998. The deafening success of the "brilliant" creativity prompted the producer to record new collections of hits as soon as possible. Soon the albums "About Love", "Over the Four Seas" and "Orange Paradise" appeared. The last album is a collection of covers written on popular Soviet songs.

It is noteworthy that Zhanna Friske recorded "Orange Paradise" with a completely renewed collective. The previous participants were replaced by Ksenia Novikova, Anna Semenovich and Yulia Kovalchuk. After the release of this album, the creative biography of Zhanna Friske took a sharp turn: the singer realized that she had "outgrown" the girl band and was "ripe" for a solo career. At that time, the name of the star was known to everyone.

In the fall of 2005, Zhanna Friske presented her fans with her debut solo album, to which she gave her name - "Zhanna". Some of the album's songs became hits and hit the top lines of the rotations of radio and music TV channels. Clips appeared on the compositions "La-la-la", "I'm flying into the dark" and "Somewhere in the summer".

In total, the album includes 9 original songs by Friske and 4 remixes.

According to music critic Boris Barabanov, the best, but underestimated song of Zhanna Friske, which she recorded after leaving the "Brilliant" is "Western". She appeared in 2009 and was recorded together with Tanya Tereshina. The poems for the composition were written by Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC).

A year after the release of her debut album, Zhanna Friske reissued it, adding a couple of remixes and three video clips. During this period, the singer collaborated with Andrei Gubin.

Unfortunately, the first disc turned out to be the last, although Zhanna Friske was not going to end her vocal career. After the release of the album, she recorded 17 more new singles, some of them along with other famous colleagues. For example, Friske released the track "Malinki" with the guys from "Disco Crash", "Western" with Tanya Tereshina, with Dzhigan she sang the hit "You are near", and with Dmitry Malikov - the song "Quietly Snow Falls".

Zhanna Friske's last hit, "Wanted Love", came out shortly before her death - in 2015. Maturity, professionalism, brilliance and sexuality - this is how music critics characterize the last songs of the star.

Her fans were convinced of the versatility of talent and innate artistry of Zhanna Friske after the star's participation in several rating TV shows and appearances in films.

In 2003, Friske took part in the 4th season of the reality show "The Last Hero". The artist spent several months in a star company on an uninhabited island in South America. The conditions of survival were, without exaggeration, harsh. There were plenty of dangerous moments for life and health. For example, Nikolai Drozdov, by negligence, poisoned the rest of the project participants with poisonous frogs. Drozdov was sure that after the skin was removed, the frog meat posed no danger.

Later, Zhanna Friske developed a previously unknown allergy. As it turned out, this is how the woman's body reacted to some exotic plants.

Nevertheless, the participant courageously reached the final, although she lost the leadership place to Yana Volkova. The viewers, who closely watched the behavior of the stars in unfamiliar for them, by no means hothouse conditions, were amazed and delighted with the personal qualities of Zhanna Friske. The singer behaved herself with dignity, showed royal restraint, calmness and invariably kind attitude towards her colleagues.

After returning to the capital, Zhanna Friske, inspired by a new experience and having gained invaluable knowledge about a previously unfamiliar life, made the final decision not to return to the "Brilliant" group. She seemed to feel the strength for an independent flight.

In the 2000s, the star was invited to various television projects. Zhanna Friske took part in the shows "Heart of Africa", "Empire", "Circus with the Stars" and "Circus".

In 2008, she took part in the second season of the popular show "Ice Age". At first she skated with Vitaly Novikov, but then Maxim Marinin became her partner.

3 years later, in 2011, Zhanna Friske hosted the reality show "Vacations in Mexico". But the heavy workload forced the artist to refuse to work in the second season, passing the baton to Alena Vodonaeva.

In addition to her solo career, the artist tried herself as an actress and TV presenter. In 2004, viewers saw Timur Bekmambetov's blockbuster Night Watch. Zhanna Friske got the image of the charming and freedom-loving singer Alisa Donnikova. In this image, many fans recognized the star herself. But Donnikova turned out to be not only a singer, but also a dark witch, capable of cunning.

A successful acting debut inspired Zhanna Friske to continue her film career. In 2005, the artist agreed to participate in the continuation of the saga about the confrontation of dark and light forces. This time, her character got more screen time. The audience watched in awe as the love story unfolded on the screen. Alisa Donnikova had to make a choice between the character of Viktor Verzhbitsky - a dark lord named Zavulon, and the romantic young vampire Kostya, who was brilliantly embodied on the screen by Alexey Chadov.

For her work in the "Day Watch" Zhanna Friske was awarded the MTV Prize for Best Actress.

4 years later, in 2010, the actress appeared on the screen again. This time in the psychological drama "Who am I?" By Klim Shipenko. Unfortunately, the film did not have the same success as previous blockbusters. But Dmitry Dyachenko's road movie comedy titled "What Men Talk About" grossed nearly $ 12 million in the domestic box office.

The film was liked by both viewers and film critics, who generously "showered" the comedy with laudatory reviews. Zhanna Friske appeared in this project in the role of herself. Her cameo cameo with a fair amount of self-irony. And the handsome male company of "Quartet I" in the persons of Leonid Barats, Alexander Demidov, Rostislav Khait and Kamil Larin only emphasized the female charm of the actress.

Three more films, in which Zhanna Friske appeared as a cameo - "The First Ambulance", "Beauty Demands" and "New Year's Matchmakers". In 2013, the actress's last film project was released. "Odnoklassniki.ru: CLICK good luck". In her filmography - more than a dozen works.

Friske was one of the few stars who managed to overcome the stereotypes that accompany most of her colleagues. After participating in television projects and films, Jeanne was perceived not as a singer, but as an artist in the broadest sense of the word. She was a self-sufficient TV star who managed to realize herself equally well in all guises.

It is noteworthy that Zhanna Friske was not afraid to destroy the stereotypes associated with her person. For example, in "The Last Hero" she went for what many of her colleagues are so afraid of: the star allowed herself to be removed without makeup, from the most disadvantageous angles. And in the comedy "What Men Talk About," she laughed with ease and subtle self-irony at the established reputation of a sex symbol and a fatal beauty. As critic Boris Barabanov later admitted, Friske demonstrated "exactly the degree of intelligence and self-irony that men in women are so afraid of."

Zhanna Friske was the object of the desires of thousands of men. The army of admirers of the sexy beauty grew rapidly. There were many rumors and gossip about the star's personal life. She was credited with romances with the leader of the "Inveterate Scammers" Sergei Amoralov, with the lead singer of the "Hi-Fi" group Mitya Fomin. They gossiped about the singer's connection with the main macho of Russian show business Dmitry Nagiyev. But there was no evidence or confirmation of these "novels".

And yet, the ubiquitous paparazzi unearthed some information about the personal life of Zhanna Friske. At the dawn of her career, the aspiring singer met with the famous Moscow businessman Ilya Mitelman. He sponsored several of her projects. There were rumors about the imminent wedding of this couple. But for some unknown reason, it never came to a wedding dress. Perhaps this "novel" also existed only in the rich imagination of the journalistic fraternity. After all, Zhanna Friske herself never confirmed it.

In 2006, the VIP-party started talking about the singer's romance with hockey player Alexander Ovechkin. And again "false start": the athlete was carried away by another "ex-brilliant" - Ksenia Novikova. True, the joint photos of Friske and Ovechkin still appeared in the tabloids.

In August 2011, the media wrote about the star's new hobby. This time, TV presenter Dmitry Shepelev turned out to be her chosen one. But the couple denied the connection. In the end, most of the star's fans agreed that the novel by Friske and Shepelev was some kind of marketing ploy to attract attention to two media persons.

But in the winter of 2012, the ubiquitous paparazzi took pictures of Jeanne and Dmitry's joint vacation in Miami. The unsuspecting couple did not at all resemble two colleagues who were bound exclusively by a working relationship. Soon a spicy story surfaced with a SPA-salon, which was ordered by lovers for the May Day holidays "for two".

Doubts were finally dispelled when an intriguing entry appeared on Zhanna Friske's twitter: "Dear, our love story ... will run in diapers." To which Dmitry Shepelev replied: "I want our love story to run as soon as possible."

So the fans of the 38-year-old artist learned about Jeanne's pregnancy and who is the father of the baby.

The firstborn, named Plato, was born in April 2013 in Miami. The couple spent the first few months in America. The lovers planned to hold the wedding ceremony after returning to Moscow.

Zhanna Friske learned about her terrible diagnosis during her pregnancy. Doctors diagnosed her with an inoperable brain tumor. According to unconfirmed rumors, the woman was offered immediate chemotherapy. But she abandoned it for fear of harming the baby.

For a long time, the relatives and fans of the artist did not know about Zhanna Friske's illness. But after the birth of Plato, the terminally ill star could no longer hide its condition. Zhanna's father Vladimir Kopylov admitted that his daughter had glioblastoma, cancer. The diagnosis was confirmed by the country's chief oncologist, Mikhail Davydov.

In January 2014, the woman was being treated at a clinic in New York. There were various rumors about the cause of Zhanna Friske's illness. Some "experts" argued that the impetus for the development of the disease could be the IVF procedure, which the woman allegedly resorted to in order to become a mother. But this hypothesis has no confirmation.

The whole country collected money for the treatment of the beloved star. After the official announcement of Friske's illness, Channel One began raising funds. In total, more than 66 million rubles have been accumulated. A little later, another million was transferred to Rusfond's accounts. On the website of the foundation, Zhanna warmly thanked everyone who donated money.

In the summer of 2014, the artist's fans breathed a sigh of relief. There was information that Zhanna Friske with her family, after a long and difficult treatment, is undergoing a rehabilitation period in Jurmala, on the Riga seaside. In the fall, a star appeared in the capital. She was even able to give up the wheelchair.

But the insidious disease returned. Andrey Malakhov announced this in February 2015 in the program "Tonight". He said that Zhanna Friske again went to an American clinic and resumed treatment. Soon she came from Los Angeles to Moscow, where doctors from the N.N.Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center continued to fight for her life.

Zhanna Friske spent the last three months of her life in a coma. Desperate relatives fought to save her by all means, including turning to alternative medicine.

The star died on the evening of June 15, 2015 in a house near Moscow in Balashikha.

Relatives, friends and thousands of fans said goodbye to their favorite at the Crocus City Hall. The funeral service was held at the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhov. Zhanna Friske was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery.

At the end of 2016, a monument in the form of a full-length sculpture of Jeanne appeared on the artist's grave.

The scandal broke out immediately after the death of the singer. It seems that it smoldered even when the woman was on her deathbed. The family of Zhanna Friske - her father, mother, sister Natalia and close friend Olga Orlova were not shy in expressions when it came to the civil husband of the artist Dmitry Shepelev. They said that he left and took his son to a resort in Bulgaria when Zhanna was dying. 

Later, information appeared that Dmitry forbade the family of his deceased wife to communicate with his son Platon Shepelev. All this insane cacophony splashed out on TV screens in Malakhov's scandalous show "Let them talk", dividing Friske's fans into two irreconcilable camps.

From time to time, the yellow media wrote about the alleged attack by Vladimir Kopylov on the failed son-in-law. Shepelev announced the threats he received from Friske's father. He accused Dmitry of selling the latest photographs of his terminally ill wife to the yellow press and promised to sue the rights to raise his grandson.

Fuel was added to the fire by rumors about more than 20 million rubles stolen from Rusfond, which were supposed to go to the treatment of children with cancer. The singer's relatives pointed to Dmitry Shepelev, he answered them in kind. In the end, it turned out that the money hadn't gone anywhere.

At the very end of 2016, the scandal began to subside. The conflicting parties divided the property left over from the deceased star. Relatives got a Moscow apartment, and Dmitry and Platon Shepelev got Zhanna Friske's country house in the Moscow region.

In December 2016, when the pain of bereavement subsided somewhat, Dmitry Shepelev presented to Zhanna Friske's fans his book, published in Eksmo, which he called Zhanna. Love and illness in the life story of Zhanna Friske. " It contains many previously unknown details about the last years of her life, about the months and weeks before the artist's death.

Dmitry said that in the house where he lives with his son, there are many photographs of Jeanne, and Plato, who turned 3, remembers his mother well.

2005 - Jeanne

2004 - "Night Watch" 2005 - "Day Watch" 2006 - "First Ambulance" 2007 - "First Home" 2008 - "Beauty Demands" 2010 - "What Men Talk About" 2010 - "Who Am I?" 2010 - "New Year's matchmakers" 2011 - "Point Doc. The last ten days "2013 -" Odnoklassniki.ru: HAVE CLICK Good luck " 

Zhanna Friske 's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & many more details have been updated below.

Let's check, How Rich is Zhanna Friske in 2020 ?

Zhanna Friske Net Worth 2021

Zhanna Friske 's revenue is $ 1.2M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhanna Friske and could vary in the range between $ 529.3K - $ 1.8M.

Zhanna Friske Net Worth 2020

Zhanna Friske 's revenue is $1.2M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhanna Friske and could vary in the range between $522.9K - $1.7M.

Zhanna Friske Net Worth 2019

Zhanna Friske 's revenue is $1.1M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhanna Friske and could vary in the range between $861.8K - $1.3M.

Zhanna Friske Net Worth 2018

Zhanna Friske 's revenue is $1.5M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhanna Friske and could vary in the range between $839.8K - $1.9M.

Zhanna Friske Net Worth 2017

Zhanna Friske 's revenue is $1.6M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhanna Friske and could vary in the range between $630.4K - $1.1M.

Zhanna Friske Net Worth 2016

Zhanna Friske 's revenue is $1.7M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhanna Friske and could vary in the range between $769.3K - $1.1M.

Zhanna Friske Net Worth 2015

Zhanna Friske 's revenue is $1M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhanna Friske and could vary in the range between $710.7K - $1.6M.

It is an overall forecast for the net worth of Zhanna Friske. The evaluation covers the latest 5 years and an approximation for next year. See above to learn how much money does Zhanna Friske makes a year.

The range above shows an estimation based on evaluation generated by public information about sponsorships or other sources found on the internet. It's summarized data from Zhanna Friske's projects existing in AidWiki's repository. It's an approximation of the revenue compiled by AidWiki and may not correspond with the real amount.