Olesya Zheleznyak

Olesya Vladimirovna Zheleznyak (Оле́ся Влади́мировна Железня́к; born November 11, 1974) is a Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter. Winner of the All-Russian Theater Prize (2002).

Biography
Olesya Zheleznyak was born on November 11, 1974, in Moscow.

Mother worked as a seamstress, father  — a loader. She has an older sister Lyudmila.

In childhood, she studied at the choreographic studio.

In 1999 she graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (Mark Zakharov's course) 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.

She appeared in the second season of ice show contest Ice Age.

Selected filmography

 * Silver Lily of the Valley (2000) as Zoya Misochkina
 * Balakirev the Buffoon (2002) as Dunya Burykina
 * My Fair Nanny (2004—2008) as Galya Kopylova
 * Love in the Big City (2009) as Pelageya
 * Svaty (2010—2017) as Larisa
 * 8 First Dates (2012) as Zinaida Ivanovna
 * And Here's What's Happening to Me (2012) as Nastya

Personal life
Olesya is married to actor Spartak Sumchenko (born 1973). Spouses have four children.