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Dana Abyzova is a Russian theater and film actress. She grew up in Riga, and since childhood she wanted to become an actress. During her school years, she began studying at the children's studio at the Youth Theater 'Reverance', and participated in productions. When she was 14, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Sergiev Posad in the Moscow region.

For the sake of interest, she decided to take exams at Moscow theater universities and she managed to enroll in the Moscow Art Theater School on Konstantin Raykin's course. However, due to her age, she was unable to study. But a year later, having received a certificate of secondary education, she became a student at the Moscow Art Theater School. A year later, she entered the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Yuri Krasovsky's workshop, which she graduated from in 2012. In the same 2012, she became an actress of the trainee group of the Malyy Drama Theater - Theater of Europe.

She made her film debut in 2013 and immediately with the leading role - she played Serafima in the popular TV series More. Gory. Keramzit (2014). Then she played the main role in the melodramatic mini-series Valkiny neschastya (2016).

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