Kseniya Ryabinkina
Kseniya Ryabinkina | |
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Born |
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR | 4 September 1945
Occupation | actor, ballerina |
Spouse(s) | Aleksei Stychkin[1] |
Children | Yevgeni Stychkin (Eugene Stychkin)[2] |
Kseniya Ryabinkina is a 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 Eugene Stychkin.
References
- ↑ "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
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(help) - ↑ "Eugene Stychkin: ""In our family, don't say unnecessary compliments"". http://direct-beauty.ru/. Retrieved 15 December 2016. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "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
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(help) - ↑ "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
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