14 Facts About Yulia Peresild

Yuliya Sergeyevna Peresild is a Russian stage actress, singer, and cosmonaut.

Yulia Peresild is the first professional actress to act in outer space after her spaceflight to the ISS in October 2021.

Yulia Peresild became the fifth woman in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia to travel into space, and the second to work and live on the ISS.

Yulia Peresild's father was an icon painter and her mother was a kindergarten worker.

Yulia Peresild's surname comes from her Estonian paternal great-grandparents, who were deported to the Russian SFSR.

Yulia Peresild became well known after playing supporting roles in In the Fog directed by Sergei Loznitsa, and she played the role of Soviet Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the 2015 biographical war film Battle for Sevastopol.

Yulia Peresild was selected as a member of the crew of Soyuz MS-19, which launched on 5 October 2021, in order to shoot the film The Challenge with Klim Shipenko.

Yulia Peresild's name was chosen from a shortlist of 20 actresses, and was announced on 14 May 2021.

For many years Yulia Peresild had an affair with a married Russian film director Alexei Uchitel with whom she has two daughters, born in 2009 and 2012.

In 2021, Yulia Peresild announced that she had broken up with him.

In 2022, Yulia Peresild confirmed that she is in a relationship with actor Mikhail Troynik.

Yulia Peresild is a founding member of the charity foundation Galchonok, which works to provide treatment for children with organic central nervous system disorders.

Yulia Peresild is the owner of a bright acting talent, a worthy successor to the traditions of Russian psychological theater.

Yulia Peresild's art is filled with sincerity and heartfelt openness, diligence is combined with a sense of responsibility to art and the audience.