Yelena Panova (actress) explained

Yelena Panova
Birth Name:Yelena Viktorovna Panova
Birth Date:1977 6, mf=yes
Birth Place:Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union
Years Active:1997–present
Occupation:Actress

Yelena Viktorovna Panova also Elena Panova (Russian: link=no|Елéна Ви́кторовна Панóва; born 9 June 1977) is a Russian actress. A noted stage actress at the Moscow Art Theater, she has been active in film and television since 1997. She is a recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001).

Biography

Panova's father was a theater director and an art director of the Arkhangelsk Regional Youth Theatre and her mother is a piano teacher at Arkhangelsk Pedagogical College.[1] Her elder sister is also an actress. Panova graduated from the school-studio of Moscow Art Theater in 1999 and joined the same theater.[1] At the theatre she has had some notable roles including Catherine in The Storm, Glagolev in Petticoat Government, The Governess in The Light Shines in the Darkness, Mavka in Forest Song, Kate in The Light Taste of Betrayal and Sonia in Crime and Punishment.

She debuted in 1997 in the movie Christmas Story and then played a Russian prostitute in Daniel Schmid's Swiss picture Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland (1999).[2] In 2002 she starred alongside Inna Gomes and Sergey Gorobchenko Yuriy Moroz's crime film . She was acclaimed for her roles as Gavina in Aleksandr Mitta's series "Border. Taiga Romance" (2001) and Vicky (Vika) in Aleksei Sidorov's Shadowboxing (2005).[1] In 2010, she starred in Anton Megerdichev's fantasy thriller Dark World alongside Svetlana Ivanova and Ivan Zhidkov.

Filmography

Awards

In 2001, Panova was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elena Panova. My Movies.ge. August 31, 2011.
  2. Book: Schneider. Alexandra. Zürich. Museum für Gestaltung. Bollywood: das indische Kino und die Schweiz. August 31, 2011. 2002. Edition Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. 978-3-907065-95-2. 34.
  3. Web site: http://www.arhangelskobl.ru/peoples/495/. ru:Панова Елена Викторовна. Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast. ru. August 24, 2011.
  4. News: http://2002.kremlin.ru/events/579.html. ru:Выступление Президента Российской Федерации В.В.Путина на церемонии вручения премий в области литературы и искусства. Список лауреатов. June 12, 2002. Presidential Press and Information Office. ru. August 24, 2011. Moscow.