Kseniya Rappoport Explained

Kseniya Rappoport
Birth Date:25 March 1974
Birth Place:Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Occupation:Actress
Yearsactive:1991–present
Partner:Yuri Kolokolnikov (until 2014)
Children:Aglaya Tarasova
People's Artist of Russia (2015)

Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (Russian: link=no|Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Раппопо́рт; born 25 March 1974)[1] [2] 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 Lights, Baron, Anna Karenina, Nicholas II (Germany), The Russian Bride, National Security Agent, Empire under Attack, Calendula Flowers, Prokofiev (Germany), Get Thee Out, Criminal Petersburg, Homicide, and I Pay Up Front and My Wife's Romance (France). She starred in the Italian films La sconosciuta (The Unknown Woman; 2006), L'uomo che ama (2008) and in the Golden Lion nominated movie La doppia ora (2009), for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 66th Venice Film Festival.

Biography

Rappoport was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) in a Jewish family.She 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.[3]

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 trainee group in St. Petersburg Maly Drama Theater, where she is an actress at the moment.[4] Xenia played Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull set Lev Dodin in 2001,[5] She also played a girl in "Claustrophobia" (MDT),[5] 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 Oedipus Rex, Beatrice in The Servant of Two Masters and Ismenio in Antigone (State Theatre on Foundry).

In 2008, Rappoport played an opera singer whose son mysteriously disappears in the film Yuri's Day by Kirill Serebrennikov. She won the Best Actress award at the Kinotavr festival,[6] Golden Eagle Awards[7] and at the Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards.[8] In September 2009 for The Double Hour she won the prize of the Venice Film Festival for Best Actress.[9]

In December 2009, Rappoport was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.[10]

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

In 2012, she was awarded the Golden Eagle Award for her role in film Two Days (2011).[11]

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

In 2013, Rappoport won 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 she 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, she 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.[12]

Rappoport was married to Russian businessman Viktor Tarasov (divorced). Their daughter is actress Darya-Aglaya Tarasova.[2] She later married Russian actor Yuri Kolokolnikov, and they have a daughter Sofia, born January 2011.[13]

Kseniya Rappoport is currently married to restaurateur, Dmitriy Borisov. Sometime prior to February 2016 she made public the marriage which occurred privately sometime earlier.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991Get Thee Out
1993Russian brideKristina
1997Anna KareninaMariya
1998Marigolds in FlowerYelena
1999Flowers of MarigoldElena, the daughter of Seraphim and dissident
1999I'll pay more!Natusya
2005KazarozaAlevtina
2006The Unknown WomanIrena
2006RatatouilleMargo
2008Yuri's DayLyubov Vasilyeva
2008A man who lovesSara
2008KacheliInna Maksimovna(ru)
2008ItaliansVera
2008The Double HourSonia
2009The golden sectionMari
2009My Wife's RomanceAmro's wife
2010The Father and the ForeignerLisa
2011Two DaysMasha(ru)
2011Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg
2011Fairytale.Ishead teacher(ru)
2012No hurryactress Anna Feofanova (short story "Saving the tunnel")
2011RaspoutineMaria Golovina
2014Noi 4Lara
2014The Ice Forest Lana
2014The Invisible BoyYelena
2015Deerest Mother!Galina, mother Slavika
2015NorwayAnna
2016The Queen of SpadesSofia Mayer
2018IceNadya Lapshina's mother
2018The Invisible Boy - Second GenerationYelena
2021Mama, I'm HomeTonya
2021Na blizkom rasstoyaniiInga Griner
2023The Order of Time

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1999National Security AgentTanya(ru)
1999Streets of Broken Lights 2Marina Urbanskaya
2000–05Destructive forcewife Sinitsky
2000Empire under AttackAlina
2001Gangster Petersburg 3: Antibiotic CollapseRachel Dallet(ru)
2002On behalf of BaronDebora(ru)
2002Time to loveNadya
2002Knife in the Clouds
2003Gangster Petersburg 4: PrisonerRachel Dallet(ru)
2003Do not quarrel, girls!
2004Sissi - Empress rebelMarie
2005The Fall of the EmpireAlina Gorskaya
2005YeseninGalina Benislavskya
2005Citizen of the head 2Anna Karno(ru)
2007LiquidationIdaMiniseries
2007Betrothed-disguisedOlga Gusarova wife Edik
2007More important than loveVeronica Vladimirtseva journalist
2009IsaevLidiya Bosse, singer(ru)
2012The White GuardElena
2012After schoolZhanna Ivanovna, head teacher(ru)
2013LadogaOlga KaminskayaMiniseries
2014Boatswain SeagullMiniseries
2017Mata HariElizabeth Shragmyuller

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Биография Ксении Раппопорт. RIA Novosti. 25 March 2014.
  2. http://www.peoples.ru/art/theatre/actor/ksenia_rappoport/ Ксения Раппопорт (Ksenia Rappoport) — все о знаменитости
  3. http://italia-russia-blog.info/2012-07-58-taorminskij-mezhdunarodnyj-kinofestival/ 58-й Таорминский Международный кинофестиваль
  4. http://www.mdt-dodin.ru/worker/68.html Ксения Раппопорт
  5. http://www.mdt-dodin.ru/plays/chaika/ Академический Малый Драматический Театр — Театр Европы. Ведутся технические работы
  6. Nick Holdsworth. 'Wild Field' Wins Russian Eagle. Variety. 26 January 2009.
  7. Web site: Лауреаты премии «Золотой Орел» за 2008 год. Golden Eagle Award. 27 June 2019.
  8. Web site: 2008. Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards. 27 June 2019.
  9. Web site: Venezia 2009: a Kseniya Rappoport, protagonista de «La doppia ora», la Coppa Volpi per la migliore attrice. sorrisi. 12 September 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20170920145316/https://www.sorrisi.com/cinema/venezia-2009-a-ksenya-rappaport-la-coppa-volpi-per-la-migliore-attrice/. 20 September 2017. dead. dmy-all.
  10. Web site: Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 11.12.2009 г. № 1429. Kremlin.ru. Presidential Decree of 11.12.2009 № 1429. 27 June 2019.
  11. News: Бондарчук получил "Золотого орла" за фильм "Два дня". RIA Novosti. Bondarchyuk received Golden Eagle Award for the film "Two Days". 27 January 2012. 27 June 2019.
  12. Web site: Beautiful Jewish women. 11 October 2014. Viola. 27 June 2019.
  13. News: Ксения Раппопорт родила от Колокольникова! Новолитика. 4 May 2011. 27 June 2019.