Maria Bakalova

Maria Bakalova

1996-06-04 Burgas, Bulgaria 36 Credits

Biography

Maria Valcheva Bakalova (/bəˈkɑːləvə/ bə-KAH-lə-və; born 4 June 1996) is a Bulgarian actress. She has received various accolades, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award.  Born and raised in Burgas, Bakalova began her career in Bulgarian cinema while attending the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. She mostly portrayed dramatic roles in films such as Transgression (2017), The Fathe...

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The Bad Guys 2

The Bad Guys 2

2025

as Pigtail (voice)

Acting

The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, mast...

What Stays After

What Stays After

2025

as Maggie

Acting
O Horizon

O Horizon

2025

as Abby

Acting

Abby, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father, drowns her grief by spending her days working with a monkey named Dorey. Abb...

Dirty Angels

Dirty Angels

2024

as The Bomb

6.3
Acting

During the United States' 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of female soldiers posing as medical relief are sent back in to rescue a group of ...

The Apprentice

The Apprentice

2024

as Ivana Trump

6.9
Acting

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat...

Triumph

Triumph

2024

as Slava Platnikova

6.0
Acting

A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of ...

Triumph

Triumph

2024

Producer

6.0
Producing

A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of ...

Unfrosted

Unfrosted

2024

as Rada Adzhubey

5.3
Acting

In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry.

Juego de sombras

Juego de sombras

2024

as Muse

Acting
Electra

Electra

2024

as Francesca

4.0
Acting

A journalist and his female companion travel to interview a famous musician in Rome where a generous invite to a country estate becomes something much...

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

2023

as Self - 'Cosmo' (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

Join visionary director James Gunn and superstars such as Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldaña as they recount how “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” was conceiv...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

2023

as Cosmo (voice)

7.9
Acting

Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mi...

Fairyland

2023

as Paulette

5.3
Acting

A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad, activist and author Steve Abbott.

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon

2022

as Sarah

4.6
Acting

Englishman Adam and his American bride Sarah are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. But when the newlyweds’ tri...

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon

2022

Producer

4.6
Producing

Englishman Adam and his American bride Sarah are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. But when the newlyweds’ tri...

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

2022

as Cosmo the Dog (voice)

7.1
Acting

On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the perfect present.

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Bodies Bodies Bodies

2022

as Bee

6.2
Acting

In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" whi...

The Bubble

The Bubble

2022

as Anika

4.6
Acting

Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hot...

I Don't Like You

I Don't Like You

2022

Acting

Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and goe...

Women Do Cry

Women Do Cry

2022

as Sonja

4.7
Acting

A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman app...

Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision

Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision

2021

as Tutar Sagdiyev

6.6
Acting

Never before seen footage from the award-winning movie Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

2020

as Tutar Sagdiyev

6.4
Acting

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter,...

Last Call

Last Call

2020

as Alexandra

Acting

A girl must be saved from comitting suicide through the power of love. And all that cannot happen without a series of comic situations.

The Father

The Father

2020

as Valentina

5.7
Acting

Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Ivanka. When a woman at her funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cellphone, Va...

Transgression

Transgression

2018

as Yana

4.0
Acting

TV talk show hosts bait young Yana into confessing her unusual relationship with an aging rocker. This leads to a chase by a vigilante group of hunter...

Angels

Angels

2018

as Angela

Acting

Two men named Angel and one woman Angela meet high in the mountains.

XIIa

XIIa

2017

as Milena

6.3
Acting

The movie XIIa is the sequel of the super successful XIa. In XIIa the journey continues. After two years break, Lina is back to school to teach a new ...

Showdown in Manila

Showdown in Manila

2016

as Exchange Student

3.3
Acting

The film unfolds in Manila, Philippines, and in the jungles of the island of Boracay on a tropical island in the privacy of living Russian middle-aged...

Floodplain

N/A

Acting

A man who must return to his hometown to help prevent catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.

Untitled Spy Comedy

N/A

Acting

A failed double agent becomes an unlikely success.

Birds of Prey

N/A

as Nina

Acting

An impoverished young Russian woman is drawn into Putin's crusade to re-fight the Cold War and thrives as a high-level "swallow" spy in Washington, un...

Branded

Branded

N/A

as Lilly

Acting

Tells the origin story of organized crime gangs in America’s prison system.

My Masterpiece

N/A

Acting

It follows a hitwoman hellbent on dismantling an unfair system within her industry, but she gets stuck on the second floor of an office building after...

God's Country

God's Country

N/A

Acting

A young woman travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé. What she uncovers is something sinister beyond comprehension, as her American dream curdles into...

Mayday

Mayday

N/A

Acting

Lieutenant Troy Brennan's reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory goes awry, forcing him to crash-land and survive in Russian wilderness while ev...

All Night Wrong

N/A

as Ell

Acting

Gary and Ell (a married man with an inferiority complex, and a grieving young widow) meet on a blind date only to wind up stealing a killer's car alon...