Halyna Hutchins

Halyna Hutchins had an athletic build, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was a Ukrainian cinematographer and former director of photography, born on April 9, 1979, in Horodets, Ukraine. She passed away on October 21, 2021, at age 42.

Halyna grew up on a remote Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle, surrounded by reindeer and nuclear submarines. She earned a graduate degree in international journalism from Kyiv National University and worked as an investigative journalist on British documentary productions in Eastern Europe. Inspired by film, she moved to Los Angeles and graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory in 2015. She worked on over 30 feature films, shorts, and TV projects, including Archenemy, Blindfire, The Mad Hatter, Treacle, In Absentia, and Crossing Point. In 2019, the American Society of Cinematographers named her one of 10 Rising Stars of Cinematography. She was a member of ICG Local 600 and represented by Innovative Artists.

Tragically, she was fatally shot on the set of the film Rust during a rehearsal, when actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop revolver containing live ammunition. The incident sparked widespread discussions on set safety and led to investigations and trials. She is remembered through her films, a memorial scholarship fund at AFI, and the documentary Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna. She was married to Matthew Hutchins and had one son.