Yelena Labutina

Yelena Labutina was born in Russia where she lived for the first eight years of her life. For a time she lived with her family in Kampuchea. After returning to Russia, her family took up residence in the Moscow suburb of Khimki. Here she began taking an interest in singing and she joined a choir. She graduated from Oleg Kudryashov's acting class in the directing department of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in 2006.