Olena Yuriivna Kravets ( uk, Олена Юріївна Кравець, born 1 January 1977) is an

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

, producer and television host from

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

Biography

Olena Maliashenko was born in

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. Kr ...

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, obla ...

, she is the only daughter of Yurii Viktorovych Maliashenko and Nadiia Fedorivna Maliashenko (a metallurgist and economist, respectively). She is best known internationally as the executive director of the

Kvartal 95 Studio Kvartal 95 Studio (Ukrainian: Сту́дія «Кварта́л-95»; Russian: Сту́дия «Кварта́л-95») is a publicly held television entertainment production company operating in Ukraine since 2003. The company was founded by ...

since 2000. On 21 September 2002, she married the producer Serhii Kravets and adopted the surname of her husband. From this marriage, they have three children: Mariia, born on February 24, 2003 and twins Ivan and Kateryna, born on August 15, 2016. On the occasion of her second pregnancy, she launched her own line of specialized clothing for pregnant women under the name "OneSize by Lena Kravets".

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Ukrainian film actresses Ukrainian television presenters Ukrainian stage actresses 20th-century Ukrainian actresses 21st-century Ukrainian actresses Inter (TV channel) people Kryvyi Rih National University alumni Mass media people from Kryvyi Rih Ukrainian women television presenters Living people 1977 births {{Ukraine-business-bio-stub