Biography

Tanya Lialina (Tatyana Lyalina) was born in Dnipro, Ukraine. In 2011, Tanya moved to Kyiv and studied Acting for Stage and Screen in the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University.

After graduating with honors in 2015 Tanya moved to Moscow where she worked in one of the most famous Russian theaters Sovremennik from 2016 to 2022. While living in Russia, she starred in more than 20 movies and TV shows playing mostly leading roles. In 2019, she won the Best Actress award at the «Morning of the Motherland» Film Festival for her leading role in the TV series Blackout (2018) directed by Sergey Ursulyak. She was also shortlisted for the Best Actress in Television at the 2020 Golden Eagle Awards for this role. In 2020 she starred in The Terrible (2020) by Aleksey Andrianov. Tanya also featured in the series Zona komforta (2020) from 2020 until 2022.

In 2022 Tanya left Russia. After relocating to Georgia in 2022 she played the lead role in the play "Arc de Triomphe" in Tbilisi.

Tanya has also directed several short films that have participated in international festivals and received recognition and awards. She made her directorial and screenwriting debut with the feature film I Want to Go Home (2020) which won the Grand Prix of the main Russian short film festival «Koroche». In 2023 Tanya wrote and directed a short film Just a sec! (2023) winning second place at AGBO's Global Short Film Festival by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo.

As of March 2024, she is based in London.
- IMDb mini biography by: Irina Vasina

Tatyana Lyalina is a Ukrainian and Russian theater and film actress, singer, and songwriter.

During her school years, she attended music school. Although she lacks formal vocal training, she taught herself to play the guitar and began performing songs of her own composition. After finishing school, she chose to pursue a career in acting. In 2015, she graduated from the I.K. Karpenko-Karyy Kiev National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television, having studied in the workshop of Nikolay Rushkovskiy.

She began acting in films in 2012, making her debut as Lada in the movie Lektsii dlya domokhozyaek (2012). She rose to widespread fame in 2013 following her lead role in the melodrama Krivoe zerkalo dushi (2014). In 2016, she played the lead role in the melodrama Posle mnogikh bed (2016), directed by Valeriy Devyatilov.

Since 2016 Tatyana has lived in Moscow, where she became an actress at the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. At the Sovremennik, she contributed to the creation of a video piece marking the anniversary of Evgeniy Evstigneev. She made her debut in *The Cherry Orchard*, where, according to Galina Volchek, she embodied a completely new concept of the role of Anya.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa