---
name: "Darya Zhuk"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/darya-zhuk"
fi1m_id: "darya-zhuk"
imdb_id: "nm2660273"
tmdb_id: 1987241
wikidata_id: "Q56154653"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "26 April 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T18:59:04.097438+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Darya Zhuk

## Identity

Darya Zhuk

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/darya-zhuk
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** darya-zhuk
- **IMDb ID:** nm2660273
- **TMDB ID:** 1987241
- **Wikidata ID:** Q56154653
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darya_Zhuk, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56154653, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2660273/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1987241

Director. Born 26 April 1980 in Minsk, Belarus.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 26 April 1980, Minsk, Belarus
- **Also known as:** Дарья Жук, Daria Zhuk, Daria Jouk
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darya_Zhuk, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56154653, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2660273/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1987241

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Little America*](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Darya Zhuk is a film director and playwright of Belarusian origin. She was born in Minsk in 1980 and moved to the United States at the age of 16. She studied economics at Harvard University before earning an MFA in directing from Columbia University in 2014.

Her feature debut *Crystal Swan* (2018), which she directed and co-wrote, screened in the East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Grand Prix at the Odesa International Film Festival. It was Belarus’s first entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 22 years. Zhuk directed and wrote the teleplay for an episode of the Apple TV+ series *Little America* (2020), based on her own experiences. She has also directed episodes and seasons of series including *Russian Affairs* (2020) for Amazon and *Zato* for Netflix.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, arts.columbia.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Little America* (2020), Fi1m 82, Director, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Premise* (2021), series, Director
- *The Long Breakup* (2020), Additional Editor
- *Little America* (2020), series, Director, Teleplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)
- *Russian Affairs* (2019), series, Director
- *Crystal Swan* (2018), Director, Co-Writer
- *The Real American* (2015), Writer, Director
- *What Doesn't Kill You* (2015), Director
- *Eat the Tourists* (2014), Director, Screenplay
- *Wax* (2013), Screenplay, Director
- *The Air Inside Her* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *Half-Life* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *A Film about Anna Akhmatova* (2008), Producer
- *Through the Eyes of Others*, Director
- *Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement*, Director

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