72 Meters (2004) and The Fall of the Empire (2005) by Vladimir Khotinenko, Children of the Arbat (2004) by Andrei Eshpai and Garpastum (2005) by Aleksei German Jr. She is best known internationally for starring in Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), as Lara, the girlfriend of the main character and his mother's nurse. She was on the six-person jury, which was headed by Catherine Deneuve, at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival in 2006. In 2007, together with professional ice dancer Roman Kostomarov, she took part and became the winner of the Channel One figure skating competition Ice Age. Personal life Khamatova was married to the Russian actor and composer from 1995 to 2002. In 2003, she dated ballet dancer Aleksei Dubinin (). On 1 October 2009, she married Russian actor and director . She has three daughters: Arina Ivanovna Volkova (b. 4 April 2002), Asya Alekseievna Dubinina (b. 2003) and Iya Aleksandrovna Shein (b. 27 April 2010). Her marriage to Shein ended in 2017. She is fluent in Russian, German, Portuguese and English. Philanthropy and politics Khamatova is known for her social activities, she draws public attention to the problems of children with cancer. In 2005, she and Dina Korzun organized the concert "Give me life" at the stage of Sovremennik Theatre to help children with hematological diseases. In 2006, Khamatova became a co-founder of the Podari Zhizn ("Make the gift of Life") charity foundation which helps children suffering from oncological and hematological diseases. By the summer of 2009, the fund had collected and sent for treatment of these diseases more than 500 million rubles. In 2012, Khamatova publicly supported Russian president Vladimir Putin during the presidential election campaign. According to Russian journalists, Khamatova was put under pressure to save her charity foundation. In 2019, Khamatova said that she would never have done that if she could imagine that he would start the war in Donbass. On another occasion, she said that she is actually apolitical, but the charity in Russia is heavily dependant on the support from the state. In February 2022, Khamatova was one of signatories of the petition started by Mikhail Zygar to protest the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On holiday when the war started, she accepted that she needed to stay in exile in Latvia, realising that she could not return to Russia without being forced to deny the war or apologize for not supporting