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Svetlana Metkina

Svetlana Metkina

Birthday: 1974-01-07 | Place of Birth: Moscow, Soviet Union [now Russia]

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Metkina (born 7 January 1974, Moscow) is a Russian actress and film producer, also known in Hollywood as Lana Litvak. She began acting at age 11 in children's theatre and studied at the Shchukin Acting School. She is best known internationally for playing Czechoslovak reporter Lenka Janáček in Bobby (2006), an ensemble drama about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Her other acting credits include Slingshot (2005), Mini's First Time (2006), The Second Front (2005, with Ron Perlman), Heatstroke (2013), and Evidence (2013). As a producer she has worked on Colette (2018), Vox Lux (2018), The Guilty (2021, with Jake Gyllenhaal), and Oslo (2021). She received a SAG Award nomination for her ensemble work in Bobby.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2013
Heatstroke

as    Tally

2013
Evidence

as    Vicki

2010
Knife Edge

as    Lucy

2007
Trackman

as    Katya

2006
Mini's First Time

as    Jelena

2005
Slingshot

as    Fast Bobby

2005
The Second Front

as    Olga Ryabina (as Lana Litwak)

2003
Barbarian

as    Gilda

1998
The Family

as    Alya