Ten-year-old Russian actress Martha Timofeeva received one of the key roles in the new American series Hulu and 20th Century Fox, "The Secret Society of Mr. Benedict." According to Deadline, the cast included three more young artists - Mystic Inshaw, Emmy DeOliveira and Seth Carr. Also involved in the project are actors Tony Hale, Kristen Schaal, Maame Ya Boafo, Ryan Hurst and Gia Sandhu.

The plot of the series is based on a cycle of four books by the English writer Trenton Lee Stewart, published between 2007 and 2012. Adapted a series of Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay. Previously, they worked on a number of paintings, including “Clash of the Titans”, “Ghost Patrol”, “Crazy and Beautiful”, “Mission in Miami”.

The series will unfold around four orphans with different talents. The children are taken home by an eccentric philanthropist Mr. Benedict (Hale). With the help of the children, he hopes to complete a secret mission.

Martha Timofeeva got the role of Constance - a miniature girl writing poetry. The heroine of the Russian actress is very smart, she has a difficult character.

Constance is a real rebel, unpredictable and resourceful: it is she who often leads her team to unexpected solutions to assigned tasks.

Filming of the series is scheduled for 2020. As Marta Timofeeva’s official Facebook page says, “if it weren’t for the pandemic, the filming process would be in full swing.”

  • © Shot from the film "Sister" (2019)

Despite her young age, Marta Timofeeva is an experienced actress. She "played" her first role when she was not even a year old - in advertising diapers. The girl continued to appear in commercials, and at the age of three, Marta was invited to participate in series and feature films.

Martha Timofeeva performed her first prominent role when she was six. She starred in the film “The Moth” by Konstantin Khudyakov, where Alyona Babenko, Ivan Okhlobystin, Emanuel Vitrogan and other stars of Russian cinema were also involved. At the moment, the actress has more than 40 roles in film and television projects. The artist also has little experience in the United States: she played a cameo role in Tommy Bertelsen's 2018 Welcome to Mercy film.

Marta Timofeeva was not the first child who managed to go through all the qualifying stages and get on the set abroad.

One of the most famous Russian child models - 14-year-old Kristina Pimenova - in 2019 tried herself as an actress, playing a supporting role in the horror of Michael S. Oyeda “Russian Bride”. After she decided to continue her acting career: in 2020, the Italian fantasy Creators: The Past was released, where Pimenova got a small role. On the set of this picture, she worked with movie stars such as William Shetner and Gerard Depardieu.

  • © Shot from the film “Russian Bride” (2019)

The ten-year-old daughter of Valery Todorovsky and Evgenia Brik Zoya Todorovskaya also made her movie debut several years ago. She starred in Netflix, the American science fiction series OA, which launched on a video platform in 2016. Her site partners were Jason Isaacs, Patrick Gibson and Brit Marling.

Eugene Brik said that Zoya got into the series by accident: she was noticed by an agent.

Brick believes that despite a successful start, it’s too early to talk about the girl’s acting future. However, Zoya starred in two more American films - the short films The Plastic Man and Lena.

The film career of ten-year-old Dobromir Mashukov also began abroad. He played a cameo in the 2017 Canadian series The New Gumby Adventures. The following year, another film was released, shot with the participation of a young actor - the action movie "Acceleration" of Michael Merino and Daniel Zirilli. In 2020, the premieres of three films at once are expected, in which Dobromir got the roles of: George Gallo's action movie "The Return Path" with Robert de Niro and Morgan Freeman, the series Demnist: The War of God, filmed in a co-production of the USA, Great Britain and Belarus, and Russian melodrama Sarika Andreasyan "Goodbye America."