Olesya Zheleznyak


Olesya Vladimirovna Zheleznyak is a Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter. Winner of the All-Russian Theater Prize .

Biography

Olesya Zheleznyak was born on November 11, 1974 in Moscow.
Mother worked as a seamstress, father — a loader. There is an older sister Lyudmila.
In childhood, she studied at the choreographic studio.
In 1999 she graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and was accepted into the troupe of the Lenkom Theatre. Her first performance was The Barbarian and the Heretic. Became popular after a successful film debut in the film Silver Lily of the Valley by Tigran Keosayan.
In 2015, the Russian duplicated the role of the Sadness in the animated film Inside Out.

Selected filmography

Olesya is married to actor Spartak Sumchenko. Spouses have four children.