Olena Khokhlatkina

Olena Antoniivna Khokhlatkina (Олена Анатоліївна Хохлаткіна; born January 28, 1968) is a Ukrainian theater, film and television actress. She holds the titles Merited Artist of Ukraine and People's Artist of Ukraine.

Biography
Olena Antoniivna Khokhlatkina was born on January 28, 1968, in Kherson Oblast. She graduated from the Kherson Cultural and Educational School in 1989. From 1989 to 1999, she was an actress of the Kherson Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater. From 1997 to 1998, she was part of a Russian drama theater in Maykop. In the early 2000s, she accepted an invitation from the Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theatre and moved. She and her family were forced to leave Donetsk after the occupation of Donetsk in 2014. She moved to Kyiv and became an actress of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in 2015.

Personal life
Khokhlatkina is married with Viktor Zhdanov. They have a son and daughter actress Oksana Zhdanova. She is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.

Awards and honors
In 1996, Khokhlatkina was named Merited Artist of Ukraine. In 2008, she was named People's Artist of Ukraine. She earned a Kyiv Pectoral Award for Best Supporting Actress in the play Forest. In 2018, she earned a Kyiv Pectoral Award for her role in the play Dear Pamela (2019).