Elena Semikina

Elena Semikina (born September 8, 1983) is a Russian-Canadian actress, executive producer, and beauty pageant titleholder. Semikina was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, on June 14, 2010. She represented Canada at the Miss Universe 2010 beauty pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on August 23, 2010.[1][2][3] Semikina conceived and executive-produced the feature documentary film Our Man in Tehran, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and set the record straight on the Iran hostage crisis after Ben Affleck's feature film, Argo, premiered at the same festival only one year prior.

Elena Semikina
Born
Elena Semikina

(1983-09-08) September 8, 1983
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
TitleMiss Universe Canada 2010
Beauty pageant titleholder
Major
competition(s)		Miss International 2008
(Unplaced)
Miss Universe Canada 2010 (Winner),
Miss Universe 2010
(Unplaced)

In January 2020 Canadian authorities charged Semikina with criminally harassing her ex-lover Drew Taylor and his wife Jennifer over a period of five years. Semikina allegedly threatened both of them with bodily harm, threatened to raise false allegations against Taylor unless he advanced her film career, and also threatened to kill him. The case is on-going.[4]

Career

Semikina also directed, produced and wrote Behind The Dress, which was nominated for the Women in Cinema Award and The Golden Door Film Festival Prize, in addition to receiving the Bronze Plaque Award at the Columbus Film Festival. Semikina's Behind the Dress records, through unprecedented access and first-hand accounts, a view beyond the traditional beauty pageant stereotypes, showing the Miss Universe™ competition as a vehicle for encouraging and promoting women, humanitarian outreach and transgender rights.

Semikina was a preliminary competition judge at Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia.[5][6]

Filmography

Films
  • 2013 Our Man in Tehran - Executive Producer.[7]
  • 2013 Three Days in Havana - Pepe' Woman #2.[8]
  • 2014 Behind The Dress - Director, writer, producer, herself.[9]
  • 2015 Beyond My Skin - Executive Producer.[10]
  • 2015 Creature Lake - Laura.[11]

Television series

References
  1. "Miss Universe 2010 Elena Semikina". Miss Contest. Miss Universe. 2010-08-22. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  2. Andrew Ryan (2010-08-22). "The Miss Universe Flesh Parade Call it NBC Family Viewing". Miss Contest. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
  3. Allison Friedman (2010-08-23). "Toronto's Elena Semikina Competing in Miss Universe Pageant Tonight". Miss Contest. Toronto Life. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
  4. https://torontosun.com/news/crime/former-beauty-queen-charged-with-harassing-former-lover-wife?fbclid=IwAR1xW7RlyM_HnKEfTzGDlYFYtK2x7_2JgPL4etxwbBxiCyyq8I1ihDMC6w8
  5. Miss Universe (2013-11-05). "Miss Universe 2013 Judge Bio, Elena Semikina". Miss Contest. Miss Universe. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
  6. Global Beauties (2013-10-31). "Meet the Judges for the Presentation Show on November 5th". Miss Contest. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  7. "Our Man in Tehran (2013)". IMDb. September 12, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  8. "Three Days in Havana (2013)". IMDb. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  9. "Behind the Dress (2014)". IMDb. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  10. "Beyond My Skin (2015)". IMDb. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  11. "Creature Lake (2015)". IMDb. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
Preceded by
Samantha Tajik		 Miss Universe Canada
2010		 Succeeded by
Chelsae Durocher
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