Olena Khokhlatkina

Olena Antoniivna Khokhlatkina (Ukrainian: Олена Анатоліївна Хохлаткіна; born January 28, 1968) is a Ukrainian theater, film and television actress. She holds the titles Merited Artist of Ukraine and People's Artist of Ukraine. Olena Antoniivna Khokhlatkina was born on January 28, 1968, in Kherson Oblast. She graduated from the Kherson Cultural and Educational School in 1989. From 1989 to 1999, she was an actress of the Kherson Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater. From 1997 to 1998, she was part of a Russian drama theater in Maykop. In the early 2000s, she accepted an invitation from the Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theatre and moved. She and her family were forced to leave Donetsk after the occupation of Donetsk in 2014. She moved to Kyiv and became an actress of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in 2015.