Biography

Olga Yuryevna Dykhovichnaya, born Golyak (Russian: О́льга Ю́рьевна Дыхови́чная; born 4 September 1980) is a Belarusian and Russian actress, producer and director. Graduated in 1997 from Belarusian State University Olga worked on Belarusian television as a host of the program “Morning Cocktail” (Утренний коктейль). Then she moved to Moscow and worked in the TV company VID while doing her studies in the workshop of Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938–2013) and Svetlana Igorevna Karmalita (1940–2017). Olga became a famous actress, producer and director. In the early 2000s, she worked in the studio Volia (Воля), where she directed a number of documentary films. In 2010 she became producer of International Independent Film Festival 2morrow/Завтра and also a producer of 2morrowFilms film company. As an actress, she is best known for a lead role in a controversial film Twilight Portrait (Портрет в сумерках) (2011), where she also took a part as a co-writer and co-producer. Twilight Portrait premiered at Venice Film Festival, and among numerous awards at film festivals worldwide received a Nomination «Discovery of the Year» by European Film Academy.