Yelena Viktorovna Panova also Elena Panova (; born 9 June 1977) is a Russian actress. A noted stage actress at the Moscow Art Theater, she has been active in film and television since 1997. She is a recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001).
Biography Panova's father was a theater director and an art director of the Arkhangelsk Regional Youth Theatre and her mother is a piano teacher at Arkhangelsk Pedagogical College. Her elder sister is also an actress. Panova graduated from the school-studio of Moscow Art Theater in 1999 and joined the same theater. At the theatre she has had some notable roles including Catherine in The Storm, Glagolev in Petticoat Government, The Governess in The Light Shines in the Darkness, Mavka in Forest Song, Kate in The Light Taste of Betrayal and Sonia in Crime and Punishment.
She debuted in 1997 in the movie Christmas Story and then played a Russian prostitute in Daniel Schmid's Swiss picture Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland (1999). In 2002 she starred alongside Inna Gomes and Sergey Gorobchenko Yuriy Moroz's crime film Kamenskaya: Za vse nado platit. She was acclaimed for her roles as Gavina in Aleksandr Mitta's series "Border. Taiga Romance" (2001) and Vicky (Vika) in Aleksei Sidorov's Shadowboxing (2005). In 2010, she starred in Anton Megerdichev's fantasy thriller Dark World alongside Svetlana Ivanova and Ivan Zhidkov.
Filmography
1997 – Christmas Story 1999 – Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland – Irina 1999 – Mother – Pauline in her youth 2001 – Border. Taiga Romance (TV series) – Galina tow 2002 – Kamenskaya: Za vse nado platit – Olga Reshin 2002 – Red Sky. Black Snow – Lida (evacuee girl with child) 2003 – Land- Dasha Klyueva 2003 – Christ Under the Birches – Tanya 2004 – Shadowboxing - Vika 2004 – MOORE is MOORE (TV series) – Lida 2005 – Swan's Paradise – Lida, mayor 2006 – Bewitched Site – Dasha Klyueva 2006 – Hunter – Irene, journalist 2006 – The Husband Comes Back from a Business Trip - Katya Zagorskaya 2006 – Women's Work with a Hazard to Life, Investigator Nadezhda Postnikova 2006 – Secret Guardian – "Cobra", FSB 2007 – Shadowboxing 2: Revenge – Vika 2007 – Detective Putilin – Strekalova 2007 – Year of the Golden Fish – Masha 2007 – I'm Counting: One, Two, Three, Four, Five... , as Alisa 2008 – Friend or Foe – Olga 2008 – Time of Sins – Zina 2008 – Surprise (Russia, Ukraine) – Zoe, the former wife of Ivan 2009 – Prodigal Children (Russia, Ukraine) 2009 – House on the Lake District 2009 – Secret Guard. Deadly Game – "Cobra" 2009 – I Am Not Myself, as Lena Fufachyova 2009 – Dark World – Helvi 2010 – Dr. Tyrsa 2010 – Mother for Rent – Tamara 2010 – Fine Line (TV series), – Marina Sinitsyn 2011 – Shadowboxing 3: The Final Round – Vika 2012 – Time to love – Svetlana 2013 – Metro – Galya 2013 – Fierce – Barysheva 2014 – The Fool – Kristina 2017 – The Age of Pioneers – Tatiana Belyayeva 2022 – Land of Legends – Tabarga
Awards In 2001, Panova was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation
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