Natalya Negoda
# Natalya Negoda

Natalya Igorevna Negoda (Russian: Ната́лья И́горевна Него́да; born 12 November 1963, Moscow) is a Russian actress best-known for her portrayal of Vera in the film Little Vera (Маленькая Вера) – the first ever Soviet film to include a sex scene. She later appeared in Playboy magazine.

Negoda moved to the United States in the early 1990s but returned to Russia in 2007. She has been a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin and his policies, and she signed a statement calling for the government to free Pussy Riot.

## Selected filmography

* Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
* Little Vera (1988)
* How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea (1989)
* Back in the USSR (1992)
* The Comrades of Summer (1992)
* Tambourine, Drum (2009)
