Janina Elkin

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Janina Elkin
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Janina Elkin in Cannes 2019
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Janina Elkin

(1982-12-20) 20 December 1982 (age 41)
Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Republic
Nationality German
OccupationActress
Years active2003-present

Janina Elkin (born 20 December 1982 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Republic) is a German film and theater actress. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Background

Janina Elkin was born on 20 December 1982 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR. She attended the State Dance Academy in Kiev. At the age of 10, she moved with her family to Heidelberg, Germany. She attended the State Ballet Academy in Mannheim, where she trained as a ballet dancer. With a scholarship, she studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City from 2001 to 2004. Since 2004 she has been working as an actress on stage as well as in film and television. From 2009 to 2010 she played the role of Baby in the musical Dirty Dancing in Berlin. Elkin played her first major leading role in the feature film Bela Kiss: Prologue  [ de ], released in Germany in January 2013. [5] [6] [7] [8]
She became internationally known with her role in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit . [9] [10]

Filmography

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References

  1. ↑ "Janina Elkin - von der Ballettschule ins "Damengambit" und in den "Tatort"". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Regionalnachrichten.
  2. ↑ "Von der Ballettakademie zum Krimi: Janina Elkin spielt im Schwarzwald-"Tatort"". Die Rheinpfalz.
  3. ↑ "Janina Elkin". crush.de.
  4. ↑ "Janina Elkin (Anna Carina Levin) im Schloss Einstein Interview". wn.com.
  5. ↑ "Janina Elkin Schauspielerin". schauspielervideos.de.
  6. ↑ "Irina (Janina Elkin, rechts) konfrontiert Wolfgang (Thorsten Merten, links) mit ihrer Operationswunde". fr.de. 22 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "About Janina Elkin". stagefactory-berlin.de. Archived from the original on 2017-01-20.
  8. ↑ "Janina Elkin". filmportal.de.
  9. ↑ "The Netflix series The Queen's Gambit featuring Janina Elkin has won the Golden Globe for best miniseries or television film". gm-production.ru.
  10. ↑ "Everything We Know So Far About 'The Queen's Gambit' Series on Netflix". whats-on-netflix.com/. 28 September 2020.
  11. ↑ "Fernsehfilm "Fremdkörper"". tittelbach.tv.
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