Biographies of Famous People

July 24, 2026

Biographies of Famous People

Olena Kravets

Elena Yurievna Malyashenko, married Kravets is a Ukrainian comic actress, singer, television producer and presenter.

Place of Birth, Education

She was born on January 1, 1977 in Kryvyi Rih. His father worked as a metallurgist, his mother was an economist and headed a savings bank.

Even in her school years, she showed interest in creativity – she participated in school amateur performances, theatrical performances and kept wall newspapers.

She received her higher education at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, where she studied as a financier-economist.

Career

At one time, she worked in the Kryvyi Rih branch of McDonald’s. During her participation in KVN, she received an offer to work as a presenter at the local radio station Radio Sistema.

Since 1998, she has been a member of the “95 Kvartal” team, and since 2003, together with “Studio Kvartal-95”, she moved to Kyiv. She performed all female roles, including parodying politician Yulia Tymoshenko and singer Natalia Korolevska. In addition to working on stage, she served as the administrative director of the team.

In 2010, the magazine “Viva!” recognized her as one of the most beautiful women in Ukraine.

Since May 24, 2021, she has become the host of the daytime infotainment show “Your Day” on the 1+1 TV channel. She is also engaged in the voice acting of cartoons and co-produced the documentary “Legend. Lyudmila Gurchenko”.

After the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation (RF) into Ukraine in February 2022, Kravets left with her children, but returned to Kyiv during the same year.

In 2024, she launched a family podcast “Let’s Talk at Home” on her own YouTube channel.

Marital Status

She is married to the actor of “Kvartal 95” Serhiy Kravets.

The couple have a daughter, Maria, born in 2003, and twins, Kateryna and Ivan, who were born in 2016.

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