Alyona Khmelnitskaya
Alyona Aleksandrovna Khmelnitskaya is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema and a TV presenter.Biography
Alyona Khmelnitskaya was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. into an artistic family. Her parents are artists of the ballet. Her father Aleksandr Khmelnitsky and mother Valentina Savina danced at the Bolshoi Theater for twenty years. Alyona in childhood was engaged in artistic gymnastics and table tennis.
In 1988, after graduating from high school, she entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School, 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.
Alyona 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 , based on Jack London's novel of the same name.
In 1993, she married film director Tigran Keosayan. In a marriage that lasted twenty-one years, two daughters were born. The couple divorced in 2014, and after the divorce they maintained friendly relations.
