Yelena Anatolyevna Shulman (; April 10, 1969 â April 9, 2023) was a Russian film and voice actress and announcer.
She was born on April 10, 1969 in Odesa. According to STMEGI, she had Jewish roots.
She entered and graduated from the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts.
Yelena's mother was a designer of children's clothing, and her father was a sailor. He sailed on ships for ten years, after which he returned to his family and they moved to the Caucasus. There, Yelena's father became a builder.
From early childhood, Yelena began to show the ability to imitate various sounds. Her voice and musical ear became a serious reason to think about a creative profession. Yelena first encountered a microphone in her school years, when she became a presenter on the school radio. After finishing school, she went to the Academy of Theatre Arts.
From 2012, she worked mainly in Moscow.
For over 15 years, Shulman was engaged in dubbing and voice-over work for foreign films and TV series. She collaborated with Moscow and St. Petersburg dubbing studios. She dubbed roles by Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lucy Lawless, Zoe Saldaña, Lana Parrilla, Eva Mendes, Kirsten Dunst, Monica Bellucci, Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Sigourney Weaver and many others. Shulman was a mezzo-soprano.
Within Russia, she was the original voice actress for characters in the animated films Little Longnose (2003), KikoRiki, Alyosha Popovich i Tugarin Zmey, and Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf (2011).
Shulman dubbed over 700 TV series and films.
She was the signature voice of the radio stations Eldoradio, Melodiya, and Baltika.
Shulman died on April 9, 2023 as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident. According to Mash, the day before, on April 7, she was hit by a trolleybus.