‏Severija Janusauskaite‏

Actress Severija Janusauskaite was born in Lithuania. In 2005, she finished Theatre and Cinema Academy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Worked with theatre director J. Vaitkus in Youth Theatre of State in Vilnius, then started work in cinema. There were movies in Lithuania such as Anarchija Zirmunuose (2010) by Saulius Drunga which won the best debut award in the international Moscow film festival, Honningfellen (2008) by Per-Olav Sørensen, "Two hours" by R. Cekuolyte, "Expermen" by R. Marcinkus, "Comma" by J. Pavloff, "Violence" by V. Tinteris, "The fortress of a sleeping butterflies" by A. Puipa , "Chasing solace" by E. Fulcher and many other Lithuanian and international projects.

In 2012, the actress started her work with Russian directors. She played the lead role in Anna Melikyan's movie "The Star" and won the best actress award in the open Russian film festival "Kinotavr", the National Academy of Russia Golden Eagle Award for the best supporting role, was nominated as best actress and the discovery of the year by NIKA Awards and Russian Guild of Critics Awards for best acting. From 2012-2016, the actress performed the lead roles in Russian movies such as "Norwegian" by A. Zvancova, "Godfather" by T. Alpatov, "Exact address" by O. Aleynikova ,"Poka net" by M. Dovzhenko ,"DreamFish" by A. Bilzho and many others. Her upcoming roles are in a movies "Polina" directed by Olias Barco and "Optimists" by Aleksey Popogrebskiy.

Severija Janusauskaite also works as a voice over artist and the music composer for theatre performances. She speaks in Lithuanian, English and Russian. She lives in Vilnius.