She was born in Minsk in 1980, at the age of 16 she left to the USA where she studied economics at Harvard and started her career as a business analyst at HBO.
[1][2] Zhuk's credits as director and playwright include detective drama Zato for Netflix,[3][4] Russian Affairs for Amazon Europe, Little America for Apple TV+, and many more.
[1] In 2018, she released her feature debut Crystal Swan,[6] a story about a young DJ girl who hopes to get an American visa and go to the USA.
[2] Crystal Swan was selected as the Belarusian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Oscars,[1] but was not nominated.
[9][10] In 2023, Zhuk presented her We Haven’t Met Until This Summer at the 23rd edition of the east–west co-production market at German Film Festival Cottbus.