Kseniya Ryabinkina

Kseniya Ryabinkina
Born Kseniya Lvovna Ryabinkina
(1945-09-04)4 September 1945
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation Actress, ballerina
Spouse(s) Aleksei Stychkin[1]
Children Evgeniy Stychkin[2]

Kseniya Lvovna Ryabinkina (Russian: Ксения Львовна Рябинкина, born 4 September 1945) is a Soviet and Russian professional ballet dancer and character actor in Russian and Hindi cinema from the 1960s till date.[3]

Early life

Kseniya 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.[4]

Career

She started her career as a ballerina in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.

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. She acted in a total of 11 films, which is quite a bit for a Russian actress of the USSR era.

Later years

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. She still mentors ballerinas and actors in Russia.

Personal life

She was married to the late Aleksei Stychkin, and her son is the Russian actor Evgeniy Stychkin.

References

  1. ↑ "Raj Kapoor's Russian co-star from Mera Naam Joker to mark his birth anniversary in Mumbai". http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 15 December 2016. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ "Eugene Stychkin: ""In our family, don't say unnecessary compliments"". http://direct-beauty.ru/. Retrieved 15 December 2016. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ "Russian heroine from 'Mera Naam Joker' set to return to Mumbai". https://in.rbth.com. Russia Beyond The Headlines a global media project. Retrieved 15 December 2016. External link in |website= (help)
  4. ↑ "Mera Naam Joker's 'Marina' Kseniya Ryabinkina talks about Raj Kapoor". http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 15 December 2016. External link in |website= (help)
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