Occupation Actress and dancer Name Katya Virshilas | Role Dancer Spouse Klaus Kongsdal (m. 2012) | |
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Movies Take the Lead, Shall We Dance? Similar People Erin Boag, Natalie Lowe, Ian Waite, Aliona Vilani, Liz Friedlander | ||
Katya Virshilas - then and now
Katya Virshilas (born 10 September 1983) is a Lithuanian-Canadian dancer and actress.
Contents
- Katya Virshilas then and now
- Pasha kovalev katya virshilas and brendan cole natalie lowe tango quickstep scd 2011
- Early life
- Career
- Strictly Come Dancing
- So You Think You Can Dance
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
Pasha kovalev katya virshilas and brendan cole natalie lowe tango quickstep scd 2011
Early life
Virshilas was born in Lithuania, to a Jewish family. She subsequently moved to Israel at age six, and to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at thirteen.
Career
She was a Vancouver British Columbia Dancesport Champion four times, from 1998 to 2002. In 2001, she and her partner won the Canadian Latin Dance Championship. Virshilas has appeared in the Hollywood films Shall We Dance? (2004), Take the Lead and John Tucker Must Die (both 2006), and in the television shows Smallville, Supernatural, and others.
Based in the United Kingdom from the start of her appearances in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing series, she has since 2009 been professionally partnered with Danish dancer Klaus Kongsdal.
Virshilas toured the UK with Pasha Kovalev from 26 March 2012 in their own show.
She also starred in John Tucker Must Die in a minor role.
Strictly Come Dancing
She appeared as a professional dancer on series 7 (2009) of Strictly Come Dancing partnering cricketer Phil Tufnell. They were knocked out of the competition in week 9. Their scores were as follows (all out of a possible 40 marks):
On that week, they were in the bottom-two couples after a combination of the judges' points allocation and the audience's votes, alongside Ricky Groves and Erin Boag but were not saved by the judges.
Virshilas returned for the eighth series of the dancing show in autumn 2010 and was partnered with rugby player Gavin Henson. In week 1 they scored 28 (their highest so far) and in week 4 they scored 23 for a tango to Britney Spears's "Toxic". However, were knocked out on the semi-final. In the ninth series, she was paired with Dan Lobb who was at the time one of the presenters of Daybreak. However, they were eliminated in week 3 of the competition.
On 20 June 2012, it was announced that Virshilas would not appear in the tenth series.
So You Think You Can Dance
On the first series of the televised reality dancing competition So You Think You Can Dance, Virshilas choreographed or semi-choreographed four routines for different couples:
Virshilas reappeared on the second series to choreograph more routines:
Personal life
Virshilas and her partner Klaus Kongsdal announced their engagement in January 2011. The couple married on Saturday 7 July 2012.