Svetlana Khodchenkova

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. She continued her career in the role of a clairvoyant Cassandra historical television series Talisman of Love (2005). Svetlana played a ballerina in Pavel Sanaev’s film Kilometer Zero (2007).

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

She starred in the TV series Lavrova's Method (2011), and appeared as Irina in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). Svetlana presented together with American colleagues at the Venice Film Festival. She co-starred with Hugh Jackman in the 2013 superhero film The Wolverine as Viper, one of the film's antagonists.

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

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

On December 13, 2005, she married her classmate Vladimir Yaglych, a Russian actor. In 2010 they divorced. In May 2015, she was engaged to Moscow businessman Georgiy Petrishin. In February 2016, the couple called off the engagement.

Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova (Russian: Светла́на Ви́кторовна Хо́дченкова , born 21 January 1983) is a Russian actress of theatre, film and television. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2018).