Kseniya Rappoport

Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (; born 25 March 1974) 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.

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. Xenia played Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull set Lev Dodin in 2001. She also played a girl in "Claustrophobia" (MDT), 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.

Filmography Film

Television