13 Facts About Kseniya Rappoport

Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport is a Russian actress.

Kseniya Rappoport graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre.

Kseniya Rappoport played Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull, Elena in Uncle Vania, and Sonia in La doppia ora.

Kseniya Rappoport has appeared in films and TV series such as Streets of Broken Lights, Baron, Anna Karenina, Nicholas II, The Russian Bride, National Security Agent, Empire under Attack, Calendula Flowers, Prokofiev, Get Thee Out, Criminal Petersburg, Homicide, and I Pay Up Front and My Wife's Romance.

Kseniya Rappoport starred in the Italian films La sconosciuta, L'uomo che ama and in the Golden Lion nominated movie La doppia ora, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 66th Venice Film Festival.

Kseniya Rappoport made her debut in cinema at the age of 16 years, while the decision to become an actress was influenced by her role in the film Get Thee Out.

In 2008, Kseniya Rappoport played an opera singer whose son mysteriously disappears in the film Yuri's Day by Kirill Serebrennikov.

Kseniya Rappoport won the Best Actress award at the Kinotavr festival, Golden Eagle Awards and at the Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards.

In December 2009, Kseniya Rappoport was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

On 27 June 2012, at the 58th International Film Festival in Taormina Kseniya Rappoport awarded the prize Golden Lion, founded by the Province of Messina.

In 2013, Kseniya Rappoport won in the category "Skill actor" awarded the International Prize of Stanislavsky for the role of Lady Milford in the play Intrigue and Love directed by Lev Dodin.

Kseniya Rappoport's father was Jewish, and she has stated that she never hid her Jewish ethnicity.

Kseniya Rappoport later married Russian actor Yuri Kolokolnikov, and they have a daughter Sofia, born January 2011.