| Kseniya Ryabinkina | |
| Birthname: | Kseniya Lvovna Ryabinkina |
| Birth Date: | 1945 9, df=yes[1] |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation: | Actress, ballerina |
| Spouse: | Aleksei Stychkin[2] |
| Children: | Evgeniy Stychkin[3] |
Kseniya Lvovna Ryabinkina (Russian: Ксения Львовна Рябинкина) is a Russian professional ballet dancer and character actor.[4] She has appeared in Soviet, Russian and Hindi cinema since the 1960s.[5]
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.[6]
She started her career as a ballerina in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9] She still mentors ballerinas and actors in Russia.[10]
| Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Film | Role(s) | Language | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The Tale of Tsar Saltan | ||||
| 1970 | Carmen Syuta | ||||
| 1970 | Mera Naam Joker | Marina | Hindi | ||
| 2009 | Chintu Ji | ||||
| 2018 | White Crow | Kseniya |