Kseniya Rappoport

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Aleksandrovna and the family name is Rappoport.

Kseniya Rappoport
Born	Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (1974-03-25) 25 March 1974 Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present
Awards

Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (Russian: Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Раппопо́рт; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre. She played Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull, Elena in Uncle Vania, and Sonia in La doppia ora.

She has appeared in films and TV series such as Streets of Broken Streetlights, Baron, Anna Karenina, Nicholas II (Germany), The Russian Bride, National Security Agent, Empire Under Fire, Calendula Flowers, Prokofiev (Germany), Get Thee From Me, Criminal Petersburg, Homicide, and I Pay Up Front and My Wife's Romance. She starred in the Italian film La sconosciuta (2006), L'uomo che ama (2008) and in the Golden Lion nominated movie La doppia ora (2009), for which she won Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 66th Venice Film Festival.

Biography

Kseniya Rappoport was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She studied at the school № 155 with in-depth study of French, studied music and sports, and in high school was fond of puppet theater.

She made her debut in cinema at the age of 16 years, while the decision to become an actress Kseniya influenced shooting the film "Get Thee Out"

In 2000 she graduated from Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy (SPbGATI), where she studied in the class VM Filshtinsky and was immediately invited to join the group stazhёrskuyu St. Petersburg Maly Drama Theater, an actress who is at the moment. Xenia played Nina Zarechnaya in "The Seagull" A. Chekhov set Lev Dodin in 2001. The actress also plays a girl in "Claustrophobia" (MDT), Elena Andreyevna in "Uncle Vanya" (Prize "Gold spotlights" in 2003 for Best Actress) and Sofia in "Play Without name" directed by Lev Dodin in MDT, Jocasta in the play "Oedipus Rex", Beatrice in "The Servant of Two Masters" and Ismenio in "Antigone" (State Theatre on Foundry).

In 2008, "Jurev day" prize of the festival "Kinotavr" for Best Actress. September 2009, "The Double Hour" prize of the Venice Film Festival for Best Actress.

Kseniya Rappoport in the Venice Film Festival on September 2009.

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

June 27, 2012, at the 58th International Film Festival in Taormina (Sicily, Italy) Rappoport awarded the prize "Golden Lion", founded by the Province of Messina.

At the 35th Moscow International Film Festival awarded a special prize "For conquest of tops of actor's skill and loyalty to the principles of Stanislavsky school".

In 2013, in the category "Skill actor" (Best Actress) awarded the International Prize of Stanislavsky (2012-2013 theater season) for the role of Lady Milford in the play "Intrigue and Love" directed by Lev Dodin (MDT Theater of Europe). In 2014 he became the winner of "Top 50 Most famous people of St. Petersburg" in the "theater" for active work in the Board of Trustees "Children Bella" and the role of Ranevskaya in "The Cherry Orchard" by Lev Dodin.

In March 2015 he was awarded the prize of the Association of producers of film and television in the field of television movies as "Best Actress TV movie / series" for the role of Olga in the TV series "Ladoga"

Personal life

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

Rappoport was married to Russian businessman Victor Tarasov (divorced). Their daughter is actress Darya Victorovna "Aglaya" Tarasova, born 1994 in Saint Petersburg. She is now married to Russian actor Yuri Kolokolnikov, and they have a daughter Sofia, born January 2011.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1991	Get Thee Out
1993	Russian bride	Kristina
1994	Prohindiada 2
1997	Anna Karenina	Mariya
1999	Flowers of Marigold	Elena, the daughter of Seraphim and dissident
1999	I'll pay more!	Natusya
2005	Kazaroza	Alevtina
2006	The Unknown Woman	Irena
2006	Ratatouille	Margo
2008	Jurev day	Lyubov Vasilyeva
2008	A man who loves	L'uomo che ama ... Sara
2008	Kacheli	Inna Maksimovna
2008	Italians	Vera
2008	The Double Hour	Sonia
2009	The golden section	Mari
2009	My Wife's Romance	Amro's wife
2010	The Father and the Foreigner	Lisa
2011	Two days	Masha
2011	Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg
2011	Fairy tale. there is	head teacher
2012	No hurry	actress Anna Feofanova (short story "Saving the tunnel")
2013	Ekskursantka
2013	Rasputin	Munya Golovina
2014	Noi 4	Lara
2014	The Ice Forest	Lana
2014	The Invisible Boy	Ylena
2015	Mom Daraga!	Galina, mother Slavika
2015	Norway	Anna
2016	The Queen of Spades	Sofya Mayer
2016	Fotografas
2016	Motte Ne

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	National Security Agent	Tanya
1999	Streets of Broken Lights 2	Marina Urbanskaya
2000-05	Destructive force	wife Sinitsky
2000	Empire under attack	Alina
2001	Gangster Petersburg 3: Antibiotic Collapse	Rachel Dallet
2002	On behalf of Baron	Debora
2002	Time to love	Nadya
2002	Knife in the Clouds
2003	Gangster Petersburg 4: Prisoner	Rachel Dallet
2003	Do not quarrel, girls!
2004	Sissi - Empress rebel	Marie
2005	The Fall of the Empire	Alina Gorskaya
2005	Yesenin	Galina Benislavskya
2005	Citizen of the head 2	Anna Karno
2007	Liquidation	Ida	Miniseries
2007	Betrothed-disguised	Olga Gusarova wife Edik
2007	More important than love	Veronica Vladimirtseva journalist
2009	Isaev	Lidiya Bosse, singer
2011	Rasputin	Maria Golovina
2012	The White Guard	Elena
2012	After school	Zhanna Ivanovna, head teacher
2013	Ladoga	Olga Kaminskaya	Miniseries
2014	Boatswain Seagull		Miniseries
2016	Mata Hari	Elizabeth Shragmyuller

External links

• Kseniya Rappoport at the Internet Movie Database
• Maly Drama Theatre – Theatre of Europe
• 14th Damascus International Film Festival
• Festa Internazionale di Roma