Yelena Velikanova

Yelena Sergeyevna Velikanova (Russian: Еле́на Серге́евна Велика́нова; born October 5, 1984, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian theatre, film and voice actress.

[1] In 2001, Yelena entered the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School at the State Academic Maly Theater of Russia in Moscow (artistic director of the course Vitaly Ivanov; teacher Vladimir Beilis),[2] which she graduated in 2005.

[3][4] In February 2008, she became the Girl of the Month for the Russian version of MAXIM Magazine.

[5][6] Yelena bears the surname of her stepfather, whose great-aunt is the famous Soviet pop singer Gelena Velikanova (1923-1998).

Yelena has been divorced on 2018[10] After the start of Russia's war against Ukraine in 2022, she supported the Ukrainian side, moved to Kyiv and began running social networks in the Ukrainian language.