Moterys meluoja geriau

*Moterys meluoja geriau*
Moterys meluoja geriau
Genre	Drama, Comedy, Romance
Created by	Rolandas Skaisgirys
Based on	Moterys meluoja geriau. I d.; Moterys meluoja geriau. II d.; ; by Daiva Vaitkevičiūtė
Written by	Daiva Vaitkevičiūtė & Edvinas Kalėda; (seasons 1-10)
Directed by	Raimundas Banionis; (season 1); Sigitas Račkys ; (seasons 2–6); Balys Latėnas; (season 3); Linas Paugis; (season 6); Saulius Balandis; (season 7); Justinas Krisiūnas; (season 8); Mykolas Vildžiūnas & Andrius Žiurauskas; (seasons 9–10) Andrius Žiurauskas & Ričardas Vitkaitis; (season 11); Ramūnas Rudokas; (seasons 12-17); Ričardas Vitkaitis; (season 13); Marius Jampolskis; (season 14)
Creative director	Ramūnas Rudokas
Starring	Inga Norkutė, Edita Užaitė, Jurgita Jurkutė, Jūratė Budriūnaitė, Marius Jampolskis, Ramūnas Rudokas, Agnė Šataitė, Vytautas Šapranauskas, Nerijus Gadliauskas, Džiugas Siaurusaitis, Giedrius Savickas, Vitalija Mockevičiūtė
Opening theme	"Moterys Meluoja Geriau" by Širdelės
Ending theme	"Moterys Meluoja Geriau" by Širdelės
Composers	Žilvinas Liulys; (seasons 1-17); Žeraldas Povilaitis; (season 2); Stano; (seasons 4-5); Mindaugas Lapinskis; (seasons 6-17)
Country of origin	Lithuania
Original language	Lithuanian
No. of seasons	17
No. of episodes	1315 (Seasons 1–16)
Production
Producers	Rolandas Skaisgirys; (seasons 1-4); Gediminas Duoba; (seasons 5-11); Audrius Tumavičius; (seasons 11, 13-17); Arūnas Pukelevičius; (seasons 12-17); Evaldas Priudokas; (seasons 12-15); Deimantė Bubelytė; (seasons 15-17)
Production locations	Vilnius, Palanga, Klaipėda, Šventoji, Jonava, Trakai, Ukmergė, Šilalė, Panevėžys, Kaunas
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Videometra
Original release
Network	TV3
Release	4 February 2008 –; present

Moterys meluoja geriau (Women Lie Better) is a Lithuanian TV series produced by TV3. It is the most watched Lithuanian drama of all time.^[1] The first season is based on a 2002 novel by Daiva Vaitkevičiūtė^[2] and follows four young women and their love interests. In later seasons, the series doesn't concentrate on them as much.^[3] The first season was released in 2008 and continued for a total of 17 seasons, starring the lead actors Edita Užaitė, Inga Norkutė, Jūratė Budriūnaitė, Jurgita Jurkutė, Vytautas Šapranauskas, Agnė Šataitė, Giedrius Savickas, Ramūnas Rudokas, Marius Jampolskis, Gintarė Latvėnaitė, Nerijus Gadliauskas, Džiugas Siaurusaitis, Vitalija Mockevičiūtė and supporting re-occurring actors Goda Andriūnaitė, Sigitas Račkys, Darius Meškauskas, Arūnas Storpirštis, Jurijus Smoriginas, Ineta Stasiulytė, Tomas Kliukas, Jonas Braškys, Kristina Andrejauskaitė, Aušra Štukytė.

The series premiered on TV3 in Lithuania on February 4, 2008.

Episodes

Series	Episodes	Originally released
Series	Episodes	First released	Last released
1	78	4 February 2008 (2008-02-04)	10 July 2008 (2008-07-10)
2	62	26 August 2009 (2009-08-26)	31 December 2009 (2009-12-31)
3	91	25 August 2010 (2010-08-25)	4 February 2011 (2011-02-04)
4	89	2 September 2011 (2011-09-02)	10 February 2012 (2012-02-10)
5	90	29 August 2012 (2012-08-29)	15 February 2013 (2013-02-15)
6	115	22 October 2013 (2013-10-22)	23 May 2014 (2014-05-23)
7	77	13 January 2015 (2015-01-13)	29 May 2015 (2015-05-29)
8	84	31 August 2015 (2015-08-31)	28 January 2016 (2016-01-28)
9	74	29 August 2016 (2016-08-29)	5 January 2017 (2017-01-05)
10	83	4 September 2017 (2017-09-04)	1 February 2018 (2018-02-01)
11	74	18 September 2018 (2018-09-18)	5 February 2019 (2019-02-05)
12	75	11 September 2019 (2019-09-11)	29 January 2020 (2020-01-29)
13	84	31 August 2020 (2020-08-31)	27 January 2021 (2021-01-27)
14	80	30 August 2021 (2021-08-30)	9 November 2021 (2021-11-09)
15	80	5 September 2022 (2022-09-05)	30 January 2023 (2023-01-30)
16	80	4 September 2023 (2023-09-04)	30 January 2024 (2024-01-30)
17	40	23 October 2024 (2024-10-23)	8 January 2025 (2025-01-08)

Cast and characters

Edita Užaitė as Kristina (seasons 1-4; 6-7)
Inga Norkutė as Meda (seasons 1-17)
Jūratė Budriūnaitė-Kamrazer as Margarita (Matrona / Margo) (seasons 1-4; 6-7)
Jurgita Jurkutė as Jolanta (seasons 1-2)
Agnė Šataitė as Ugnė (seasons 3–7; 12 and 14-16; recurring seasons 2 and 13)
Ramūnas Rudokas as Marijus (seasons 1–7; 9–10; 12–17)
Marius Jampolskis as Donatas (seasons 1–7; 9–10; 12–17)
Vytautas Šapranauskas as Paulius (seasons 1-4)
Nerijus Gadliauskas as Robertas “Robertėlis” (seasons 4–7, 9–17; recurring seasons 1–3)
Gintarė Latvėnaitė as Jūratė (seasons 1-7, 15-17)
Kristina Andrejauskaitė as Irena (seasons 5–7, 9–17; recurring seasons 2–4)
Giedrius Savickas as Kovaldas (seasons 1-4)
Evaldas Jaras as Adamas (season 8, 12–17; recurring season 7 and 10)
Vitalija Mockevičiūtė as Galina (seasons 5–10, 12–17)
Džiugas Siaurusaitis as Konstantinas (Kostia / Kostas) (seasons 4-10)
Goda Petkutė as Laura (seasons 11–14)
Ridas Žirgulis as Kostas (seasons 13–17, recurring season 12)
Ugnė Žirgulė as Regina (seasons 13–14, 16, recurring seasons 12, 15)
Ineta Stasiulytė as Natalija (seasons 14-17, recurring season 13)

Cast overview

For the first 15 seasons, the series used to have opening credits with current main actors, starting with season 16, opening credits are still used for some episodes, but all actors are put at the end credits under "Vaidino" aka "Starring" category.

Key
Series regular	Series guest	No appearances


	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Kristina	Edita Užaitė					Edita Užaitė
Meda	Inga Norkutė
Jolanta	Jurgita Jurkutė		Stand in ^[a]
Paulius	Vytautas Šapranauskas
Margarita	Jūratė Budriūnaitė-Kamrazer					Jūratė Budriūnaitė-Kamrazer	Jūratė Budriūnaitė-Kamrazer^[b]
Kovaldas	Giedrius Savickas
Dalius	Sigitas Račkys	Sigitas Račkys								Sigitas Račkys
Gintaras	Darius Meškauskas									Darius Meškauskas
Silvestras	Arūnas Storpirštis					Arūnas Storpirštis			Arūnas Storpirštis		Arūnas Storpirštis
Marijus	Ramūnas Rudokas								Ramūnas Rudokas			Ramūnas Rudokas
Donatas	Marius Jampolskis								Marius Jampolskis			Marius Jampolskis
Jūratė	Gintarė Latvėnaitė	Gintarė Latvėnaitė													Gintarė Latvėnaitė
Ričardas		Regimantas Adomaitis
Ugnė		Agnė Šataitė	Agnė Šataitė									Agnė Šataitė	Agnė Šataitė	Agnė Šataitė
Gustas			Vytautas Anužis
Vaidotas			Tomas Kliukas				Tomas Kliukas
Robertas	Nerijus Gadliauskas			Nerijus Gadliauskas					Nerijus Gadliauskas
Vidas	Jonas Braškys				Jonas Braškys		Jonas Braškys					Jonas Braškys
Irena		Kristina Andrejauskaitė			Kristina Andrejauskaitė				Kristina Andrejauskaitė
Feliksas				Jurijus Smoriginas	Jurijus Smoriginas		Jurijus Smoriginas					Jurijus Smoriginas	Jurijus Smoriginas	Jurijus Smoriginas		Jurijus Smoriginas
Vilma					Vaida Genytė ^[c]
Vilma					Aušra Štukytė										Aušra Štukytė
Emilis					Vytas Caim
Kostantinas				Džiugas Siaurusaitis	Džiugas Siaurusaitis
Galina				Unnamed Actress^[d]	Vitalija Mockevičiūtė^[e]	Vitalija Mockevičiūtė						Vitalija Mockevičiūtė
Česlovas						Sakalas Uždavinys									Sakalas Uždavinys	Sakalas Uždavinys
Vladimiras							Andrius Žiurauskas			Andrius Žiurauskas		Andrius Žiurauskas
Ieva						Daiva Rudokaitė		Daiva Rudokaitė
Oksana							Lina Rastokaitė	Lina Rastokaitė
Adamas							Evaldas Jaras	Evaldas Jaras		Evaldas Jaras		Evaldas Jaras
Edmundas							Rimantas Bagdzevičius	Rimantas Bagdzevičius				Rimantas Bagdzevičius
Bronius								Vaidas Jočys
Deimantė								Eglė Jackaitė
Zigis								Rimvydas Ambrazevičius
Toma								Justė Zinkevičiūtė	Justė Zinkevičiūtė
Virga									Justina Žiogaitė-Butkienė	Skaistė Anusevičiūtė
Modestas									Dainius Kazlauskas						Dainius Kazlauskas
Jorė									Brigita Arsobaitė
Ryčka									Rokas Petrauskas	Rokas Petrauskas
Simas										Andrius Paulavičius
Kęstutis											Jonas Gricius
Laura											Goda Petkutė
Agota											Asta Baukutė
Solveiga												Justina Nemanytė		Justina Nemanytė		Justina Nemanytė
Ieva													Vaida Lisikaitė
Kostas												Ridas Žirgulis	Ridas Žirgulis
Regina												Ugnė Žirgulė	Ugnė Žirgulė		Ugnė Žirgulė	Ugnė Žirgulė
Natalija													Ineta Stasiulytė	Ineta Stasiulytė
Muzika									Vaida Baranovė			Vaida Baranovė				Agnė Levickaitė
Mindaugas												Simonas Storpirštis				Simonas Storpirštis
Deividas												Karolis Kasperavičius				Karolis Kasperavičius
Marta														Aurelija Tamulytė		Aurelija Tamulytė
Žydrūnas														Gytis Pintulis		Gytis Pintulis
Agnė														Deimantė Bubelytė		Deimantė Bubelytė
Martyna															Akvilė Žirgulytė	Akvilė Žirgulytė
Stasikas															Ričardas Bartašius	Ričardas Bartašius^[f]
Kristina																Kristina Kazlauskaitė
Kunigas Dendis																Šarūnas Datenis
Antanas																Antanas Kišūnas

^ character was seen during very first episode of third season, but was played by extra
^ During seventh season actress was credited in opening credits, but never appeared in that season as she was written off in previous season
^ during first 14 episodes of fifth season, actress was seen during opening credits, however because of schedule complict between her and producers, she never appeared in show and Aušra Štukytė took over Vilmas role
^ In fourth season this character appeared for couple episodes and was played by unnamed actress
^ replaced Vaida Genytė in fifth season opening credits starting with episode 15
^ added to "Vaidino"(Starring) credits starting with season 16 episode 24

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
2008	Sidabrinė gervė 2008	Best male actor	Marius Jampolskis	Won	^[4]

References

[Season_3-4] racter was seen during very first episode of third season, but was played by extra

[Season_7-5] During seventh season actress was credited in opening credits, but never appeared in that season as she was written off in previous season

[Season_5-6] uring first 14 episodes of fifth season, actress was seen during opening credits, however because of schedule complict between her and producers, she never appeared in show and Aušra Štukytė took over Vilmas role

[Season_4-7] In fourth season this character appeared for couple episodes and was played by unnamed actress

[Season_5B-8] replaced Vaida Genytė in fifth season opening credits starting with episode 15

[Season_16-9] to "Vaidino"(Starring) credits starting with season 16 episode 24

[1] Televizijos reitingų viršūnėje – V. Šapranausko atminimui skirtos laidos

[2] Daiva Vaitkevičiūtė: „Ne aš sugalvojau, kad moterys meluoja geriau“

[3] Po Naujųjų per TV3 – "Moterys meluoja geriau"

[10] „Sidabrinė gervė 2008“. Apdovanojimų ceremonija

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