Rumyana and Valcho Bakalov welcomed Maria Valcheva Bakalova into the world on June 4th, 1996 in Burgas.
Around the age of six, she started learning how to play the flute and sing. Bakalova majored in drama theater and minored in flute at the National School of Music and Stage Arts in Burgas when she was 12 years old.
She received a straight A grade there and recalls, “I was a super-disciplined youngster. I had too many books open at once. Dostoyevsky was my obsession when I was around 15 or 16.”
Bakalova became interested in literature as a teen, particularly the writings of Mikhail Bulgakov, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gabriel Garca Márquez.
What movies has Maria Bakalova been in?
While enrolled in the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bakalova launched her career in Bulgarian cinema by playing leading roles in motion picture films. In movies like Transgression (2017), The Father (2019), Last Call (2020), and Women Do Cry (2021), she primarily played serious parts.