Ia Ninidze

Iya Ninidze known as la Ninidze (; born 8 September 1960) is a Georgian actor who starred in a musical when she was thirteen. She has been called "the Georgian Audrey Hepburn" and starred in films and TV. One of the films was delayed for three years while the Soviet censors considered the way it satirised Joseph Stalin.

Life Ninidze was born in 1960 in, what is now the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. Her father was a television director and her mother taught Russian. Ninidze was sent to learn ballet early at Tbilisi Choreographical School where she was spotted as a potential actor. At the age of thirteen she was in Giorgi Shengelaya's iconic Georgian musical Melodies of Vera Quarter where she played, Tsitsino, a girl who wanted to go to ballet school. In the 1987 film Repentance,

On television she has appeared in Simple Truths and the two part comedy drama Heavenly Swallows. In that popular Russian TV film she stars as a schoolgirl, and would be actress, who is escorted by her singing teacher to an arranged marriage. She moved to Moscow to appear in the theatre.

Private life She has two children.