Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (; born 25 March 1974)Ксения Раппопорт (Ksenia Rappoport) — все о знаменитости 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.58-й Таорминский Международный кинофестиваль Retrieved 27 June 2019.
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.Ксения Раппопорт Retrieved 27 June 2019. Xenia played Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull set Lev Dodin in 2001.Академический Малый Драматический Театр — Театр Европы. Ведутся технические работы Retrieved 27 June 2019. She also played 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 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, Golden Eagle Awards and at the Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards.
In December 2009, Rappoport was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
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).
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 .
She has had a successful acting career abroad and has gained international fame. She starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's Unknown Woman, played along Monica Bellucci in The Man Who Loves, and won Volpi Cup as Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for The Double Hour.
Currently, Rappoport stays active in theatre. In 2025, she was the lead actress in Dunya Smirnova's play Beyond the Light at the Gesher Theatre in Tel Aviv. In 2026, she starred in the London premiere of Sunset Boulevard, a Gift of Life charity production.
Personal life
Rappoport's father was Jewish, and she has stated that she never hid her Jewish ethnicity.
Rappoport was married to Russian businessman Viktor Tarasov. Their daughter is actress Darya-Aglaya Tarasova who received the 2019 Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actress for her role as the figure skater Nadezhda Lapshina in the 2018 Russian language film Ice.
Rappoport later was in relationship with Russian actor Yuri Kolokolnikov, and they have a daughter Sofia, born January 2011.
Her second marriage was to restaurateur Dmitriy Borisov. The couple tied the knot in 2016, but divorced in May 2019.
Filmography Film YearTitleRoleNotes1991Get Thee Out Sima1993Russian BrideKristina1997Anna KareninaMariya1998Marigolds in FlowerYelena1999I'll Pay More!Natusya2005KazarozaAlevtina2006The Unknown WomanIrena2006RatatouilleMargo2008Yuri's DayLyubov Vasilyeva 2008A man who lovesSara2008KacheliInna Maksimovna(ru)2008ItaliansVera2008The Double HourSonia2009The golden sectionMari2009My Wife's RomanceAmro's wife2010The Father and the ForeignerLisa2011Two DaysMasha(ru)2011Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg 2011Fairytale.Ishead teacher(ru)2012No hurryactress Anna Feofanova (short story "Saving the tunnel")2011RaspoutineMaria Golovina2014Noi 4Lara2014The Ice Forest Lana2014The Invisible BoyYelena2015Deerest Mother!Galina, mother Slavika2015NorwayAnna2016The Queen of SpadesSofia Mayer2018IceNadya Lapshina's mother2018The Invisible Boy - Second GenerationYelena2021Mama, I'm HomeTonya2021Na blizkom rasstoyaniiInga Griner2023The Order of Time
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1999National 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 Benislavskya2005Citizen of the head 2Anna Karno(ru)2007LiquidationIdaMiniseries2007Betrothed-disguisedOlga Gusarova wife Edik 2007More important than loveVeronica Vladimirtseva journalist 2009IsaevLidiya Bosse, singer(ru)2012The White GuardElena 2012After schoolZhanna Ivanovna, head teacher(ru)2013Olga KaminskayaMiniseries2014Boatswain Seagull Miniseries2017Mata HariElizabeth Shragmyuller2021VertinskyLidiya PavlovnaMiniseries
References
External links
Maly Drama Theatre – Theatre of Europe