Lyudmyla Yefymenko

• Name — Lyudmyla Yefymenko • Birth Name — Lyudmila Pylypivna Yefymenko • Born — 25 September 1951 • Birthplace — Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — * Actress • Film director • Children — 2; including Pylyp Illenko

Yefymenko was born to Pylyp and Hanna Yefymenko on 25 September 1951 in Kyiv. She graduated from the acting faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1972.

Since 1972, Yefymenko has been working at Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. She made her film debut in the film Random Address and has since played more than two dozen roles, including the main role in the film The Legend of Princess Olga and as the wife of Vasyl Kochubey in the film Prayer for Hetman Mazepa. Yefymenko also wrote and directed the film Ave Maria (1999). Yefymenko is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers.

Yefymenko was married to fellow director Yuri Ilyenko and they had two sons, Andriy Ilyenko (born 1987) and Pylyp Illenko (born 30 September 1977) who is a film actor, producer and politician. During the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Pylyp was No. 122 on the election list of "Svoboda" and Andriy was electable as a candidate for the same party in single mandate constituency No. 215; Andriy was elected into parliament and Pylyp was not.