Svetlana Khodchenkova

Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova (Светла́на Ви́кторовна Хо́дченкова; born 21 January 1983) is a Russian film, television and theater actress.

Khodchenkova’s debut-role was in the film Bless the Woman (2003) directed by Stanislav Govorukhin.

For this role she was nominated for "Nika" award as Best Actress.

In 2005 Graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, where she studied under the direction of Mikhail Borisovich Borisov.

She continued her career in the role of a clairvoyant Cassandra historical television series Talisman of Love (2005).

On 13 December 2005, she married her classmate Vladimir Yaglych, a Russian actor.

Svetlana played a ballerina in Pavel Sanaev’s film Kilometer Zero (2007).

In 2008, at the Polish Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress in Little Moscow.

She is also known for her roles in box office films Love in the Big City (2009), its sequel, Love in the Big City 2 (2010), and Office Romance. Our Time (2011).

In 2010, they divorced.

She starred in the TV-series Lavrova's Method (2011), and appeared as Irina in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).

Khodchenkova attended the premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy at the 68th Venice Film Festival, on September 5, 2011.

She co-starred with Hugh Jackman in the 2013 superhero film The Wolverine as Viper, one of the film's antagonists.

In May 2015, she was engaged to Moscow businessman Georgiy Petrishin.

Khodchenkova played the leading role, Irina the Greek woman, in the historical action film Viking (2016).

In February 2016, the couple called off the engagement.

She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2018).

Khodchenkova was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

She briefly worked for a modeling agency.