Background
She was born in Saint St. Petersburg to a psychologist mother and economist father.
She was born in Saint St. Petersburg to a psychologist mother and economist father.
After she finished high school she started to learn Mathematics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
She had two young sisters, one is an Israeli economist, and the second, Ksenia Ovsyanick, is a Ballet dancer in English National Ballet, who resides in London. When Yiv was fourteen years old, she made Aliyah to Israel with NAALE Program. She first lived in Mishmar HaEmek kibbutz, learned Hebrew and afterwards she moved to David Raziel youth village.
At her free time she watched a lot of movies and read books about directing.
At the age 21 she left the university, moved to Jerusalem and attended Hadassah College Jerusalem, studying cinema. She took acting classes and played in the film "Junior" (2006).
She worked as a stunt performer in advertising, in the Israeli television drama Srugim and in the movie Kirot, in which she was Olga Kurylenko"s double. In 2010 she got a lead feminine role in the Israeli television series "Blue Natalie".
She was nominated for that role to the best actress of the year prize in Israeli television She played as Donna Anna in Dom Juan play in Gesher Theater by director Alexander Morfov.
Alena Yiv plays the feminine lead role in Dina Zvi-Riklis movie "Be-rakia hamishi" (The Fifth Heaven) that came to cinema In October 2012. Along her cinematic career she directed many short Video art films and video clips.