Kseniya Lvovna Ryabinkina (Russian: Ксения Львовна Рябинкина) is a Russian professional ballet dancer and character actor.[3] She has appeared in Soviet, Russian and Hindi cinema since the 1960s.[4]
Kseniya Ryabinkina | |
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Born | Kseniya Lvovna Ryabinkina Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Occupation | Actress, ballerina |
Spouse | Aleksei Stychkin[1] |
Children | Evgeniy Stychkin[2] |
Kseniya Ryabinkina was born in Moscow to a ballerina mother and a geo-physics doctor. She has an elder sister by four years by name of Elena, also an accomplished ballerina.[5]
She started her career as a ballerina in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.[6]
She is best remembered in India as Marina, the Russian circus trapeze artiste cum love interest from Raj Kapoor's classic 1970 film Mera Naam Joker.[7]
In 2009, the Russian actress made her return to Bollywood. Ryabinkina acted in Chintuji, a film that was loosely based on incidents from Raj Kapoor's son – Rishi Kapoor's life.[8] She still mentors ballerinas and actors in Russia.[9]
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Year | Film | Role(s) | Language | Notes |
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1967 | The Tale of Tsar Saltan | |||
1970 | Carmen Syuta | |||
1970 | Mera Naam Joker | Marina | Hindi | |
2009 | Chintu Ji | |||
2018 | White Crow | Kseniya |