Olha Sumska

Olha Sumska (Ольга В'ячеславівна Сумська, born 22 August 1966) is a Ukrainian actress of theater and cinema, television hostess, recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1996 and the People's Artist of Ukraine (2009). In 2006 she attempted to run for a mayor of Kyiv.

Olha was born in city of Lviv in family of actors. She has an older sister Nataliya Sumska who is also an actress. In 1987 Olha graduated the Kyiv Institute of Theatrical Arts and between 1988 and 2006 she was a stage actress of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. From 1988 to 2005, she worked as an actress at the Kyiv Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theatre. Olha Sumska's first husband was actor Yevhen Papernyi. Their marriage ended in 1990. From her marriage to Papernyi, Olha Sumka has a daughter named Antonina (born 1 June 1990), who married Russian actor Volodymyr Yaglych. With her current husband, actor Vitaliy Borysiuk, the actress is raising a daughter named Hanna (born 2 March 2002). In 2017, she served as a jury member for the League of Laughter.

Recognition

 * 1996 Shevchenko National Prize for television films "Entrapment" and "Crime with many unknown"