Elena Kazan

Elena Kazan is a German-Russian actress who appears in German as well as Indian films such as Agent Vinod, John Day, Prague etc. The German-Philippine, English film 'Ruined Heart' in which Kazan plays the leading female role was released in March 2015. She has featured as a houseguest in the Bigg Boss house. Her mother is a nurse and her father was a primary school teacher. She spent her childhood in Ukraine before moving to Berlin with her family. At the age of 16, she moved to the US for higher studies. Kazan later went to India to work with a volunteer organization in Kolkata and while there taught the German language at Max Mueller Bhavan. She traveled widely in India for the first three years.

Career

Kazan worked in Kolkata with the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce as an interpreter. She also worked as a Unit Hand in an Australian short film shot in Kolkata, during which time she got the opportunity to work in a Bengali film. In 2012, Kazan had a cameo role in the film Agent Vinod. But her first big role came in the 2013 film John Day in which she plays the role of Tabassum Habibi, a chronic alcoholic with a dark and complex past. In the same year 2013, Kazan played the role of a Czech gypsy girl in Prague, who comes to India in search of her identity. Her next film was AASMA in which she plays the role of a Kashmiri girl. Her career went international in 2014, when she co-starred in the German-Philippine, English film 'Ruined Heart'.

Bigg Boss 10 Kazan entered the Colors popular show Bigg Boss 10 as a wild card entrant. She entered along with Jason Shah, Sahil Anand and Priyanka Jagga. She got evicted a week after staying inside the house.

Filmography

Year Title Role Language 2010 Clerk Bengali 2011 Gandhi to Hitler Hindi Rangmilanti Lisa Bengali Egaro 2012 Agent Vinod Tatiana Renko Hindi 2013 John Day Tabassum Habibi Prague Czech gypsi girl Aasma Kashmiri girl 2014 Taan NGO worker's wife Bengali 2015 Ruined Heart Lover Tagalog Uvaa English teacher Hindi 2017 The Final Exit Mysterious Woman Devi Svetlana Bengali 2018 Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Nandini/Bridget Von Hammersmark Hindi 2019 Battalion 609 Rukhsana Krishanu! Krishanu! Klara Bengali

Television Year Show Role Note 2016 Bigg Boss 10 Contestant Entered as Wild Card