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 Father (2019), Last Call (2020), and Women Do Cry (2021). She rose to prominence after starring in the 2020 mockumentary film Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.  Bakalova has since starred in films of various genres, including Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and The Apprentice (2024). She has also had voice roles, including in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) as Cosmo the Spacedog and in the DC Universe series Creature Commandos (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Bakalova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Margie Claus — (voice)
• 2026All Night Wrong — Ell
• 2026Learning to Breathe Under Water — Anya
• 2026Mayday — Anna Ustinov
• 2026O Horizon — Abby
• 2025Electra — Francesca
• 2025Fairyland — Paulette
• 2025The Bad Guys 2 — Pigtail Petrova (voice)
• 2025What Stays After — Maggie
• Creature Commandos — Princess Ilana / Old Woman (voice), Princess Ilana (voice)
• 2024Dirty Angels — The Bomb
• 2024Juego de sombras — Muse
• 2024The Apprentice — Ivana Trump
• 2024Triumph — Slava Platnikova, Producer
• 2024Unfrosted — Rada Adzhubey
• 2023Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Cosmo (voice)
• 2022Bodies Bodies Bodies — Bee
• 2022I Don't Like You
• 2022The Bubble — Anika
• 2022The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special — Cosmo the Dog (voice)
• 2022The Honeymoon — Sarah, Producer
• 2022Women Do Cry — Sonja
• Borat's American Lockdown & Debunking Borat — Tutar
• 2021Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision — Tutar Sagdiyev
• 2020Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — Tutar Sagdiyev
• 2020Last Call — Alexandra
• 2019The Father — Valentina
• 2018Angels — Angela
• 2018Transgression — Yana
• 2017XIIa — Milena
• 2016Showdown in Manila — Exchange Student
• Tipichno — Maria
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Tatar Sagdiyev
• Birds of Prey — Nina
• Branded — Lilly
• Double Blind
• Floodplain
• God's Country
• My Masterpiece
• No Way Off — Laura
• Override — Rush
• Untitled Spy Comedy

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Self - 'Cosmo' (archive footage)
• Top Chef VIP — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The View — Self - Guest
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — Self - Presenter
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self