Alyona Aleksandrovna Khmelnitskaya (; born 12 January 1971) is a Russian stage and film actress and TV presenter.
Biography
Was born in
Moscow
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,
Russian SFSR
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,
Soviet Union
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(now Russia), into an artistic family. Her parents are artists of the ballet. Her father Aleksandr Khmelnitsky (born 1937) and mother Valentina Savina (born 1939) danced at the
Bolshoi Theater
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for twenty years. Alyona in childhood was engaged in artistic gymnastics and table tennis.
In 1988, after graduating from high school, she entered the acting department of the
Moscow Art Theater School
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and Vyacheslav Razbegaev. In 1990-1994 she played Konchita in the play '' Juno and Avos'' at the Lenkom.
Khmelnitskaya's main performance was in the role of Leoncia Solano in the Russian-Ukrainian adventure feature film directed by Vladimir Popkov, ''Hearts of Three'' (1992), based on
Jack London
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Tigran Keosayan
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Since 2016, she has been in a relationship with Aleksandr Sinyushin who is thirteen years her junior.