Nataliia Sumska

Natalya Vyacheslavivna Sumska (; born April 22, 1956) is a Ukrainian theater and film actress and television hostess. She is a recipient of the People's Artist of Ukraine title and the Shevchenko National Prize in 2000 and 2008 respectively. Biography Sumska was born on April 22, 1956, in the village of Katyuzhanka, Kyiv Oblast. Her father Vyacheslav Sumsky and Hanna Opanasenko-Sumska were both theater actors at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater who held the titles People's Artist of Ukraine and Merited Artist of Ukraine respectively. She lived in Lviv until the age of 10. She had her first acting role at the age of 6 for a rehearsal of the play Nevilnyk at the Maria Zankovetska Theatre. She graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University in 1977. Since 1977, she has been an actress at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater. In 2000 she became a laureate of the national theater award "Kyiv pectoral" (for her role of Masha in the Chekhov's Three sisters).