Alyona Khmelnitskaya

Alyona Khmelnitskaya
Born
Yelena Aleksandrovna Khmelnitskaya

(1971-01-12) 12 January 1971 (age 53)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Occupation(s)Actress, TV presenter
Years active1990–present
Spouse
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(m. 1993; div. 2014)​
PartnerAleksandr Sinyushin[1] (2016–present)
Children2

Alyona Aleksandrovna Khmelnitskaya (Russian: Алёна Алекса́ндровна Хмельни́цкая; born 12 January 1971) is a Russian stage and film actress and TV presenter.[1]

Biography

Khmelnitskaya was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia),[2] into an artistic family. Her parents are artists of the ballet. Her father Aleksandr Khmelnitsky (born 1937) and mother Valentina Savina (born 1939) danced at the Bolshoi Theater for twenty years. Alyona in childhood was engaged in artistic gymnastics and table tennis.[3]

In 1988, after graduating from high school, she entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School (course leader Ivan Tarkhanov), graduating in 1992. Graduates of the same course were Gosha Kutsenko and Vyacheslav Razbegaev. In 1990-1994 she played Konchita in the play Juno and Avos at the Lenkom.[4][5]

Khmelnitskaya's main performance was in the role of Leoncia Solano in the Russian-Ukrainian adventure feature film directed by Vladimir Popkov, Hearts of Three (1992), based on Jack London's novel of the same name.[4]

In 1993, she married film director Tigran Keosayan. In a marriage that lasted twenty-one years, two daughters were born.[6] The couple divorced in 2014, and after the divorce they maintained friendly relations.[3][7][8]

Since 2016, she has been in a relationship with Aleksandr Sinyushin who is thirteen years her junior.

Selected filmography

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1986 Courier girl at the party episode
1992 Hearts of Three Leoncia Solano
2000 Silver Lily of the Valley Irma
2000 The President and His Granddaughter Alisa
2006 Rabbit Over the Void Rada
2015 Three Happy Women Milena 4 episodes
2017 The Killing Natal'ja Sonina, Tanja Lavrova's aunt TV miniseries; as Elena Khmelnitskaya
2020 The Closer 4 Ekaterina Bashlykova TV miniseries
2022 In From the Cold Svetlana Petrova 8 episodes

References

  1. ^ a b "Хмельницкая растрогала обращением к молодому избраннику".
  2. ^ Polityka, Yuri. "Елена Хмельницкая (Советский Экран)". kulichki.net.
  3. ^ a b "Мой герой. Алёна Хмельницкая". TV Centre (in Russian). Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Алена Хмельницкая: Главное — нравиться себе самой труднейший". 7Дней.ру.
  5. ^ Марк Захаров: Анна Большова в роли Кончиты очень притягательна // kp.ru
  6. ^ У Тиграна Кеосаяна и Алёны Хмельницкой родилась вторая дочь // ria.ru
  7. ^ "Как Алёна Хмельницкая живёт после развода с Тиграном Кеосаяном".
  8. ^ Komsomolskaya Pravda (27 September 2014). "Тигран Кеосаян и Маргарита Симоньян назвали сына Багратом".


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