Olesya Zheleznyak
Olesya Vladimirovna Zheleznyak is a Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter. Winner of the All-Russian Theater Prize in 2002.
Biography
Olesya Zheleznyak was born on November 11, 1974, in Moscow. Her mother worked as a seamstress, and her father a loader. She has an older sister Lyudmila. The family has Ukrainian ancestry, and in a 2023 interview she claimed she was Ukrainian.In childhood, she studied at a 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.
Zheleznyak became popular after a successful film debut in the film Silver Lily of the Valley by Tigran Keosayan. In 2015, she dubbed Sadness in the animated film Inside Out in Russian. She appeared in the second season of ice show contest Ice Age.