Tatiana

Tatiana appears in the Russian scenes that peel back Villanelle's past, a brisk, unsentimental figure with authority over the young woman who will become an assassin. She speaks in the flat, practical tone of someone used to being obeyed, watching rather than comforting, assessing rather than reassuring.

Evgenia Dodina plays her with a stillness that makes the character feel like a closed file rather than an open book — every line delivered without warmth, which is exactly what makes the flashbacks land as origin story rather than sentiment. She's a hinge point, and the performance trusts silence to do the explaining.