After a year of studying at the conservatory, Zhanna left the institute and entered the Odessa Theater Lyceum. She studied at the acting department in the group of theater director Vladimir Tumanov.

After completing her first year, she received an invitation to play a role in the Odessa Ukrainian Drama Theater. For this reason, she was forced to leave the lyceum and go to work as a theater actress.

She played the main role in the experimental performance of the Ukrainian Drama Theater “Wandering Stars” by Shalom Aleichem (rock opera)
After a year of working in the theater, Zhanna quit and moved to the position of journalist and TV presenter in the television studio of Leonid Shtekel.

She worked as a journalist at the Glas entertainment company, the Silver Rain radio station – news department.

Work in the Kinograf studio (Odessa-Kyiv) as a model, stylist, assistant director.

2012 collaboration with the film company “Pyramid” as an actress. Zhanna starred in TV series in partnership with such actors as Lyubov Tolkalina (Konchalovskaya) and Dmitry Maryanov.

Since 2016, she began making short films based on her own scripts.

Presented her own short films at the Manhattan Short Films festival (New York), Lift-Off Sessions (London)
2021-2023 presented her short films in Odessa, New York, and Berlin.

By 2024, she had made 4 short films: “Don’t Betray Me”, “Walk in the Midday Clouds”, “Bottle of Milk”, “1:1”.

In 2024, after a two-year break due to the war in Ukraine, she filmed the short film “Her Knight”.

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