Severija Janušauskaitė (born 22 October 1981) is a Lithuanian stage and film actress, occasionally performing as a singer, composer, costume designer and fashion model.
Other popular works include the comedy film The Norseman (2015) as well as the TV series The Optimists and Babylon Berlin (both 2017).
[5] One year later, she played the role of Queen Margaret in Ivona, Princess of Burgundia,[6] accepting an offer by Jonas Vaitkus, her postgraduate studies professor.
Her first feature film was the Lithuanian-Hungarian ironic drama Anarchy Girls [lt] (2010), where she played one of the main roles.
[17] Following the success in Sochi, Severija Janušauskaitė participated as a jury member in the 15th Tbilisi International Film Festival [de].
[20][21] Her performances in the TV series Godfather (2014) and films such as The Norseman (2015) and Dreamfish (2016) were also widely covered by the news media.
[24] For her role of the mermaid Helena in Dreamfish, Janušauskaitė received the Best Actress Award at the 25th Honfleur Russian Film Festival.
In Russia, the actress is currently widely associated with her performance as Ruta Blaumane, chief of an analytical group in the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1960s, in Alexey Popogrebsky's historical drama The Optimists screened on Russia-1 TV channel in April.
Her hobbies also include reading, painting, sewing, dancing, yoga, swimming, fencing and make-up design.