Yelena Velikanova

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sergeyevna and the family name is Velikanova.

Yelena Sergeyevna Velikanova (Russian: Еле́на Серге́евна Велика́нова; born October 5, 1984, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian theatre, film and voice actress.^[1]

Velikanova in 2016

Career

In 2001, Yelena entered the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School at the State Academic Maly Theater of Russia in Moscow (artistic director of the course Vitaly Ivanov; teacher Vladimir Beilis),^[2] which she graduated in 2005.

Since 2008 she has been involved in the dubbing of the animated franchise Disney Fairies, being the voice of the fairy Vidia (in the original Pamela Adlon's voice).^[3][4]

In February 2008, she became the Girl of the Month for the Russian version of MAXIM Magazine.^[5][6]

Selected filmography

• Popsa (2005) as Slavka
• Vanechka (2007) as Nadya
• The Best Movie (2008) as Nastya Korinovaya^[7]
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) as Katya^[8]
• 257 Reasons to Live (2020) as Olya

Personal life

Yelena bears the surname of her stepfather, whose great-aunt is the famous Soviet pop singer Gelena Velikanova (1923-1998).^[1][9]

Yelena has a son Mikhail (born 2010). Yelena has been divorced on 2018^[10]

After the start of Russia's war against Ukraine in 2022, she supported the Ukrainian side, moved to Kyiv and began running social networks in the Ukrainian language.^[11]