Svetlana Metkina

Svetlana Metkina is a Russian-born actress who started on the Moscow stage at age 11, playing a shaggy white dog in a children's theater play about dogs. Her education took in theater, history, literature, music, art and philosophy at Moscow State University, and she trained at the Shchukin Acting School at Moscow's Maly Theatre. Early in her career she appeared in Russian and European films, among them the thriller 300 Years Ago, Family, in which she played Ailia, and the World War II thriller The Second Front (2005). Her first American feature, Slingshot (2005), cast her as a jewel fence originally written as a man, and it premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. She followed it with Mini's First Time (2006), playing a Russian trophy wife named Jelena in a dark comic thriller that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her next film, Bobby (2006), a fictional account of the events surrounding Bobby Kennedy's assassination, was a dream part.