Yelena Shmulenson

Yelena Shmulenson was born in Belarus, grew up in Ukraine, and emigrated to the US in the 1990s. She's perhaps best known as the icepick-wielding 'Dora' in the Coen brothers' Oscar-nominated film A Serious Man . She is an Audie-nominated and Earphone winning audio actress and has recorded several audio books, winning an Earphones Award for "Train to Trieste," Cynthia Ozick s "The Shawl," and "Rosa."

Yelena Shmulenson was born in Belarus, grew up in Ukraine, and emigrated to the US in the 1990s. She's perhaps best known as the icepick-wielding 'Dora' in the Coen brothers' Oscar-nominated film A Serious Man . She is an Audie-nominated and Earphone winning audio actress and has recorded several audio books, winning an Earphones Award for "Train to Trieste," Cynthia Ozick s "The Shawl," and "Rosa." See less