Svetlana Ivanova

Svetlana Andreyevna Ivanova (Светлана Андреевна Иванова; born 26 September 1985) is a Russian theater and film actress. Her feature film debut was in The 9th Company (2005). Subsequently, she starred in such films as Franz + Polina (2006), August Eighth (2011), Friends of Friends (2014), and others. Ivanova received a number of accolades for the role of Polina in Franz + Polina.

Early life
Ivanova was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, into a family of power engineers.

Education
In 2006, Ivanova graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, where she studied at the Igor Yasulovich's class.

Career
Ivanova made her major debut as Olya in the 2005 film The 9th Company by Fyodor Bondarchuk.

Then, she played the main female role in the film "Franz + Polina" directed by Mikhail Segal. Both the film and Ivanova as Polina received numerous awards at various film festivals. Ivanova was awarded the Special Jury Prize of the Third International Film Festival "Baltic Debuts", the "Golden Sword" Prize for Best Actress at the IV International Festival of Military Movies, the Best Actress awards at the 15th Open Film Festival of CIS and Baltic countries Kinoshock, and at the XIV International Festival of Film Actors "Constellation" (Sozvezdie) for the role in this film.

Personal life
In 2006, Ivanova was romantically involved with cinematographer Vyacheslav Lisnevskiy, who later became her common-law husband. In 2012, she gave birth to their daughter, Polina. Since then, the couple has parted. In 2011, she met the film director Dzhanik Fayziyev, her future partner. In February 2018, the news came that she is pregnant with her second child.

Roles in theater
Theater "Sovremennik"
 * "Vermouth" (K. Schlender, diploma)
 * "Christmas in the house of Signor Kupello" (E. De Filippo, diploma)
 * "When the war is over" (for military prose, diploma)
 * "The Power of Darkness" (L. Tolstoy, diploma)
 * "Three Comrades" (based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque) - Patricia Holman
 * "Ardent Heart" (A. Ostrovsky) - Paracha
 * "Three Sisters" (Anton Chekhov) - Irina