Svetlana Khodchenkova

Acting

Svetlana Khodchenkova

Born 1983-01-21 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress, known for her roles in Bless the Woman (2003) and in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). She was born Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova on January 21, 1983, in Moscow and spent her childhood in Zheleznodorozhny, a small city about 6 miles east of Moscow, Russia. She was raised by a single mother, attended a public school, and once dreamed of becoming a medical doctor. In 1998, at the age of 15, she started a career as a fashion model in Moscow, and also made a few international gigs. In 2000 she began her studies at the Moscow Institute of World Economics, but quit in favor of acting. From 2001 to 2005 she studied acting at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There she attended the class of Nina Doroshina and Alekandr Lyubimtsev, graduating in 2005 as actress. While a student, she starred in films of directors Stanislav Govorukhin, and Viktor Merezhko, and also appeared in popular Russian TV series. In 2008, she earned the best actress award at Gdynya Polish Film Festival, for the leading role in Mala Moskwa (2008). In 2012, she won COFCA Award for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). On December 13, 2005, she married her classmate, actor Vladimir Yaglych, and also took her husband's name, changing her name from Svetlana Khodchenkova to Svetlana Yaglych.The couple married on the 13th on purpose; because all their filming contracts were signed on the 13th, they believed that 13 would keep working as a good number for them. However, their marriage did not last, ending in divorce. Svetlana has been involved in several stage productions of Independent stage project in Moscow. She made stellar appearances in such plays, as "Moulin Rouge Hospital" and "Theatre with and without rules" earning herself much critical acclaim. Outside of her acting profession, Svetlana is skilled in horse-back riding. She is also fond of winter sports, such as alpine skiing: she practiced her downhill at the ski resort of Courchevel, France. Source IMDB, original author Steve Shelokhonov

Acting credits

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy poster
6.6

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I poster
7.3

Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes.

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I

2025

The Nutcracker poster
NR

About writing music for Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker.

The Nutcracker

2028

The Wolverine poster
6.4

Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

The Wolverine

2013

On the Edge poster
6.1

The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin to fight for supremacy both on and off the arena.

On the Edge

2020

The End of a Beautiful Epoch poster
6.5

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

The End of a Beautiful Epoch

2015

Viking poster
4.9

The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...

Viking

2016

Metro poster
6.7

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

Metro

2013

Surprise me poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Surprise me

2012

The Hero poster
5.9

An alumni of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service who is settled in Europe gets a call from his father who was considered dead and he sets on a mission to find him with the help of his first love.

The Hero

2019

A Diary of a First-grader Mom poster
2.5

A year from the life of a first-grader and his parents.

A Diary of a First-grader Mom

2014

No artwork available
NR

A continuation of the musical story "The Wizard of Oz. Ellie and Her Friends." Despite all the difficulties and adversity, the brave little girl Ellie achieved the impossible—defeated evil and returned home.

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part III

2028

Dovlatov poster
5.9

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Dovlatov

2018

8 First Dates poster
6.5

Vera is a famous TV personality who wakes up with Nikita in bed after a hard day of partying. The next day, when she wakes up, the same thing happens.

8 First Dates

2012

The Poet poster
5.5

Alexander Pushkin is young, brash and adored by high society. He is the star at every ball he attends, his fans revere his poetic talent, and young women dream of winning his attention. However, not even his aristocratic patrons and loyal friends, nor his growing fame can keep him from dueling, getting exiled, and becoming destitute. Only when he meets his true love does he find meaning in life, and his genius develops to make him the legend the world knows today.

The Poet

2025

No artwork available
NR

The main character of the story, 18-year-old Ilya Rozov (Nikita Presnyakov) comes to the Moscow branch of Raybank and gets a job as a cleaner. Ilyusha easily gets along with people and even enjoys some popularity, mainly due to his helpfulness, when suddenly he loses his job due to a minor offense.

Visiting Fairytale$

Horoscope for Good Luck poster
5.7

Max falls into the hands of a "happy" horoscope, which he must follow for 30 days, performing all its insane orders to obtain previously unavailable beauty and success. But one day Max's horoscope is replaced...

Horoscope for Good Luck

2015

No artwork available
NR

Forbes-listed entrepreneur Snezhana Serpukhovskaya attends an interview with popular feminist blogger Ilona Mast. But then things don't go according to plan—or rather, according to something unforeseen by all involved, but precisely according to Snezhana's own plan.

Password: 18ELIZA1570

2020

Don't Mess With Baba Yaga poster
6.5

Father Frost decides to send Yaga to be re-educated by Petya, a boy who has his own problems - he wants to reconcile his parents before the New Year. Petya's parents spend more time working than they do with their family, and Petya wants to fix this situation before the New Year.

Don't Mess With Baba Yaga

2025

No Love in the City 3 poster
4.8

Our three hapless heroes - Igor, Artyom, and Sauna - return for the third lesson from St. Valentine. This time they must learn the true value of fatherhood, but this time the kids are grown up...

No Love in the City 3

2013

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part II poster
NR

The heroes journey to the Purple Country and confront the witch Bastinda.

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part II

2027

Champions poster
4.5

Five real-life stories of Olympic athletes of Russia. Five stories which intertwined love, betrayal, friendship. Each of these victories worth hard work, respect and belief in yourself, in your family and to your country.

Champions

2014

Classmates poster
3.1

Sochi, Russia. The day before wedding Katya finds her fiancé on a date with a hot blonde, so her classmates Vika, Sveta, and Dasha decide to find Katya a new husband. They have one night only. Will they succeed?

Classmates

2016

Moscow In Love poster
8.0

The young man nicknamed "Amur" works as a taxi driver in Moscow. Every day his taxi passes through the entire capital from the outskirts to the center. Areas, lifestyle, people are changing before our eyes. But Cupid will not find his place here. Moscow is just another source of problems for him. But once the capital itself decides to achieve reciprocity from Amur! It turns out to be the “intersection point” of three love stories at once.

Moscow In Love

2019

Behind the camera

Escaped to Arizona poster
7.0

Filmed at the junction of a video blog and the “what if” genre, a reality short film about the travel to the USA of the exuberant Moscow Art Theater star Alexander Molochnikov and actress Svetlana Khodchenkova, who starred in Godunov and Wolverine, but wants to see the Grand Canyon while Molochnikov wants Khodchenkova. Is everything happening - a real story of a relationship or is it just a script? Each viewer decides for himself.

Escaped to Arizona

2019

Escaped to Arizona poster
7.0

Filmed at the junction of a video blog and the “what if” genre, a reality short film about the travel to the USA of the exuberant Moscow Art Theater star Alexander Molochnikov and actress Svetlana Khodchenkova, who starred in Godunov and Wolverine, but wants to see the Grand Canyon while Molochnikov wants Khodchenkova. Is everything happening - a real story of a relationship or is it just a script? Each viewer decides for himself.

Escaped to Arizona

2019

Another Name poster
2.0

Liza is a sophisticated woman who lives in a ‘high class world’. Her husband Peter speaks Russian with a German accent, he owns a chocolate factory. They live in a cold world of minimalistic interiors, holding back their emotions. There are no children in their expensive countryside house but there are expensive greyhound dogs. However, Liza can’t stay stone cold calm, as she has a secret from her past that burns her from inside, one that she would be happy to get rid of forever… And somewhere near there is a burnt room, and teenager Ulya has the keys.

Another Name

2022