Severija Janusauskaite was born in Lithuania. In 2005, she finished Theatre and Cinema Academy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Worked with theatre director J. Vaitkus in Youth Theatre of State in Vilnius, then started work in cinema. There were movies in Lithuania such as Anarchy in Zirmunai by Saulius Drunga which won the best debut award in the international Moscow film festival, Honningfellen by Per-Olav Sørensen, "Two hours" by R. Cekuolyte, "Expermen" by R. Marcinkus, "Comma" by J. Pavloff, "Violence" by V. Tinteris, "The fortress of a sleeping butterflies" by A. Puipa , "Chasing solace" by E. Fulcher and many other Lithuanian and international projects.

In 2012, the actress started her work with Russian directors. She played the lead role in Anna Melikyan's movie "The Star" and won the best actress award in the open Russian film festival "Kinotavr", the National Academy of Russia Golden Eagle Award for the best supporting role, was nominated as best actress and the discovery of the year by NIKA Awards and Russian Guild of Critics Awards for best acting. From 2012-2016, the actress performed the lead roles in Russian movies such as "Norwegian" by A. Zvancova, "Godfather" by T. Alpatov, "Exact address" by O. Aleynikova ,"Poka net" by M. Dovzhenko ,"DreamFish" by A. Bilzho and many others. Her upcoming roles are in a movies "Polina" directed by Olias Barco and "Optimists" by Aleksey Popogrebskiy.

Severija Janusauskaite also works as a voice over artist and the music composer for theatre performances. She speaks Lithuanian, English and Russian. She lives in Vilnius.
Written By: Andrius Paulavivicius

Feature Films

2018
IZAOKAS
as Elena
Directed by Jurgis Matulevicius

2018
CHERNOVIK
as Renata
Directed by Sergey Mokritskiy

2018
POLINA
as Varvara
Directed by Olias Barco

2017
SELFIE
as Actress
Directed by Nikolay Khomeriki

2017
EMILIA
as Actress
Directed by Donatas Ulvydas

2016
DREAMFISH
as Helena
Directed by Anton Bilzho

2015
THE NORSEMAN
as Actress
Directed by Altona Zvantsova

2015
CHASING SOLACE
as Lina
Directed by Eric Fluchen

2014
STAR
as Margarita
Directed by Anna Melikyan

2011
THE CROWN JEWELS
as Prison Guard
Directed by Ella Lemhagen

2010
ANARCHY IN ZIRMUNAI
as Sandra
Directed by Saulius Drungia

Short films

2016
O FUTBOLE I PRO ANGELOV
as Angel
Directed by Aksinya Gog

2013
COMMA
as Actress
Directed by Gerri Pavloff

2013
VIOLENCE
as Julie
Directed by Vytautas Tinteris

2012
EXPERMENAS
as Lucy
Directed by Ricardas Marcinkus

TV series

2017
BABYLON BERLIN
as Svetlana Sorokina
Directed by Henk Handloegten,
Tom Tykwer & Achim von Borries

2017
OPTIMISTY
as Ruta Blaumane
Directed by Michael Idov & Misha Shprits

2008
HONNINGFELLEN
as Vaida Balandyte
Directed by Per-Olav Sørensen

2007
WAR AND PEACE
as Gipsy Dancer and Singer
Directed by Robert Dornheim