Biography

Born in Šiauliai, raised in Vilnius and based in Berlin, Severija Janušauskaitė aka Severija is a stage and film actress, singer, musician and composer. She is well known for her role in the dramatic feature film Star (2014), for which she received an Award for Best Actress at the Kinotavr Film Festival, a Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as Nika Award and White Elephant Award nominations in several categories. Other popular works include the comedy film The Norseman (2015) as well as the TV series The Optimists and Babylon Berlin (both 2017). Already as a child Severija showed interest in arts, taking example from her grandfather, a multi-instrumentalist. Later on, she studied music and graduated from a fine arts school. Finally, she chose a theatre and film study program and graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2005. Worldwide, Janušauskaitė is known for her role as double agent Swetlana Sorokina in Tom Tykwer’s Babylon Berlin, a period drama set in 1929, which had its premiere in October 2017 on Sky TV. In this to date most expensive German TV series, the actress also appears as the singer Nikoros and performs inter alia the film’s main theme, Zu Asche, Zu Staub, released under her artist name Severija.