Alyona Khmelnitskaya

Alyona Khmelnitskaya
Born Yelena Aleksandrovna Khmelnitskaya
(1971-01-12) 12 January 1971
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Other names Alyona
Occupation Actress, TV presenter
Years active 1990–present
Spouse(s)
Tigran Keosayan
(m. 1993; div. 2014)
Partner(s) Aleksandr Sinyushin[1]
Children 2
Parent(s) Aleksandr Khmelnitsky
Valentina Savina

Alyona Aleksandrovna Khmelnitskaya (Russian: Алёна Алекса́ндровна Хмельни́цкая; born January 12, 1971) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema, a TV presenter[1].

Biography

Alyona Khmelnitskaya was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia).[2] in an artistic family. Parents are artists of the ballet. 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), who graduated 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].

Alyona Khmelnitskaya's main role was played by the main role (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, the actress married film director Tigran Keosayan. In a marriage that lasted twenty-one years, two daughters were born[5]. The couple officially divorced in 2014, after the divorce they maintain friendly relations[3][6][7].

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