Biography

Conversation actress. Honored Artist of Russia (1995). She dreamed of becoming an actress from early childhood: from the age of three she sang, danced, recited poems, participated in amateur performances. After graduating from school, she studied at the School of Arts for a year. In 1972, she arrived in Moscow and entered GITIS at the department of actors in musical theater. Since 1979, she has performed at leading concert venues in Moscow and other cities of the country. In 1985, she won the title of laureate of the All-Russian Competition of Artists of Humorous Genres, showing a number of the most interesting, original, artistic and original numbers: a parody of the Blue Light (by M. Zadornov, A. Khait), the monologue "Nuclear Button" (M. Zadornov) , "The Ideal Woman" (M. Zadornov), "Women Who Sing" (G. Terikov) and many others. In 2001, her solo program, consisting of monologues of many famous authors (Mikhail Zadornov, Lyon Izmailov, etc.), came out. In addition to performing on theatrical stages, Elena Stepanenko has toured extensively, and since 2001 has appeared on television as a leading author's program ("Kyshkin House "and others).
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(July 4, 2018) Filed for divorce from her husband of 33 years Evgeny Petrosyan.

Met Evgeny Petrosyan in 1979 and they got married in 1985. On July 4, 2018, she filed a civil suit for divorce and division of the joint property of the spouses. According to a source, she requires eight out of ten Moscow apartments which they own, antiques and other valuables as part of a civil lawsuit on divorce and division of property. The total amount of claims filed in the lawsuit is more than 80% of the total jointly acquired property. The total amount of jointly acquired property is 1.5 billion rubles. The first hearing of the case was held on August 6, 2018 in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow. Her interests in court were represented by lawyer Elena Zabralova when Petrosyan was represented by lawyer Sergey Zhorin. According to attorney Zhorin, Petrosyan and Stepanenko have for about fifteen years "not been conducting a joint household and do not live like husband and wife." The marriage was dissolved by the Moscow Khamovnichesky Court on November 16, 2018 which will become official on December 15th.