Юлия Пересильд

Yulia Sergeevna Peresild (Russian: Юлия Сергеевна Пересильд) is a Russian stage actress, singer and cosmonaut. Leading actress of the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre. Participant of a space flight within the framework of the scientific and educational project The Challenge: The First in Space, during which she participated in the filming of episodes of the feature film The Challenge. She is the first professional actress to act in outer space after her spaceflight to the ISS in October 2021. She 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.