Olena Chekan

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Olena Vasilivna Chekan (also Yelena Chekan, Ukrainian: Олeнa Вacилівнa Чeкaн, Polish: Helena Czekan, Serbian: Jelena Чекић; 26 April 1946, Kyiv, Soviet Union – 21 December 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Soviet and Ukrainian film actress, script writer and journalist. Chekan was born on 26 April 1946 in Kyiv. Her father was Vasily Ioannovich Chekan (28 December 1906 – 23 November 1986), mother Lyubov Pavlovna Tarapon (15 June 1914 – 19 July 1994). In 1972, she graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. The artistic director of the course was Vladimir Etush. Chekan studied dramatic arts course in the same years, together with Natalya Gundareva and Konstantin Raikin. She worked as an actress at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre, at the Studio Theatre of a Film actor of the Alexander Dovzhenko Film Studios (Kyiv), at the Studio Theatre "Suzirya" ("Constellation") in Kyiv. She also worked on Ukrainian TV, at the Broadcast Studio 1+1 (TV Channel) as a creative editor of the "Document" project. Chekan worked at the Ukrainskyi Tyzhden (The Ukrainian Week) magazine as a journalist and assistant of editor-in-chief since the day of the magazine's foundation in 2007. Chekan's first role in cinema was in Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky.