Acting
Svetlana Metkina
January 7, 1974 (age 52)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.
