About
Maria Bakalova
Overview
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
Acting |
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| 2025 | The Bad Guys 2 | Actor | Pigtail (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Dirty Angels | Actor | The Bomb | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Creature Commandos | Actor | Princess Ilana (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | The Apprentice | Actor | Ivana Trump | 62 Fair |
| 2024 | Triumph | Actor | Slava | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Unfrosted | Actor | Rada Adzhubey | 56 Average |
| 2024 | Juego de sombras | Actor | Muse | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Electra | Actor | Francesca | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Actor | Self - 'Cosmo' (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Actor | Cosmo (voice) | 78 Good |
| 2023 | Fairyland | Actor | Paulette | 59 Average |
| 2022 | The Honeymoon | Actor | Sarah | 58 Average |
| 2022 | The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special | Actor | Cosmo the Dog (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | Bodies Bodies Bodies | Actor | Bee | 61 Fair |
| 2022 | The Bubble | Actor | Anika | 52 Average |
| 2022 | I Don't Like You | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2022 | Women Do Cry | Actor | Sonja | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed “Sub-Acceptable” by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision | Actor | Tutar Sagdiyev | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Borat’s American Lockdown & Debunking Borat | Actor | Tutar | 65 Fair |
| 2020 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | Actor | Tutar Sagdiyev | 63 Fair |
| 2020 | Last Call | Actor | Alexandra | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | The Father | Actor | Valentina | 58 Average |
| 2018 | Transgression | Actor | Yana | 58 Average |
| 2018 | Angels | Actor | Angela | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | XIIa | Actor | Milena | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Showdown in Manila | Actor | Exchange Student | 57 Average |
| All Night Wrong | Actor | Ell | N/A N/A |
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| Branded | Actor | Lilly | N/A N/A |
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| My Masterpiece | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| God's Country | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Birdseye | Actor | Nina | N/A N/A |
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| Untitled Spy Comedy | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| O Horizon | Actor | Abby | N/A N/A |
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| Floodplain | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Mayday | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 2024 | Triumph | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | The Honeymoon | Production | Producer | 58 Average |