Xenia Alexandrovna Rappoport

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Xenija Rappoport at the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009

Xenija (also Kseniya) Alexandrovna Rappoport ( Russian Ксения Александровна Раппопорт ; born March 25, 1974 in Leningrad ) is a Russian actress .

biography

Xenija Rappoport was born in 1974 in Leningrad, in the Soviet Union , now Saint Petersburg . There she attended the State Academy for Theater Arts , where she studied in VM Filschtinski's class. After completing her acting training in 1999, she joined the ensemble of the St. Petersburg Mali Theater around Leo Dodin and made her professional debut in 2001 with the female lead in Anton Chekhov's drama The Seagull . The part of Nina was followed by other leading roles in Chekhov plays ( Platonov , 2004) as well as the ancient tragedies of Sophocles ( King Oedipus , 2002; Antigone , 2004) and the Goldoni comedy The Servant of Two Masters (2004). In 2003 Rappoport received the "Golden Stripes of Light", the most important St. Petersburg theater prize, for her interpretation of Elena in Leo Dodin's production by Chekhov's uncle Vanya .

Parallel to her work at the theater, Rappoport regularly takes on engagements in film and television productions. She made her feature film debut in 1991 in Dmitri Astrakhan's award-winning tragic comedy Izydi! , which followed other roles of different sizes in Bernard Rose's international cinema production Anna Karenina (1997), Sergej Sneschkin's Chekhov adaptation The Blossoms of Calendula (1998), as well as offers for various Russian TV series. After major parts in Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe's television film Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle (2004) and the television multiparter Esenin (2005), in which she acted alongside Sean Young and Gary Busey , the international breakthrough followed in 2006 with Giuseppe Tornatores La Sconosciuta as a film actress. The Italian director had searched unsuccessfully in Prague , Kiev and Moscow for the leading actress in his cinema production before hiring Rappoport, who neither knew the script nor could speak Italian during the first test shoots. In La Sconosciuta (German: " The Unknown " ), filmed in 96 days in Trieste and Rome , Rappoport slips into the role of a 32-year-old Ukrainian who fell victim to an international prostitution ring in her youth. Severely raped and mistreated in the past, years later she does an underpaid job as a cleaning lady in Italy to track down her daughter who has been given up for adoption.

The part of the mysterious Irina brought Rappoport the favor of the international film critics. The American trade journal Variety praised the Russian actress for her incredible skill in drawing the audience on her side and her Irina as one of the "most deeply nuanced film portraits of a woman who has gone through the hell of human slavery" . Tornatore's film won the most important Italian film award, David di Donatello , in 2006 , while Rappoport was able to assert itself as best leading actress against such renowned Italian actors as Margherita Buy ( Saturno contro ) and Giovanna Mezzogiorno ( Lezioni di volo ). A year later, Rappoport was nominated for the European Film Award, but lost out to Oscar winner Helen Mirren ( The Queen ). In the same year, Tornatore's film was selected as the official Italian entry for nomination in the category of best foreign language film at the 2008 Academy Awards , but did not make it into the final selection.

After success in Italian cinema, Rappoport starred in 2008 as the spoiled Russian opera singer in Kirill Serebrennikov's drama Yuri's Day ( Yuryev den ), for which she received praise at the Locarno Film Festival . In the same year she returned to Italian film for Maria Sole Tognazzi's L'uomo che ama . Pierfrancesco Favino , Monica Bellucci and Marisa Paredes are her film partners in the drama . Also in 2008, the Russian actress was won over to host the opening and closing ceremonies for the 65th Venice Film Festival . A year later she received the actor's award at the 66th Venice Film Festival for the leading role in Giuseppe Capotondi's drama The Double Hour with the Coppa Volpi .

In 2015, Rappoport was recognized as a People's Artist of Russia .

Plays (selection)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1991: Izydi! ( Изыди! )
  • 1997: Anna Karenina
  • 1998: The flowers of the calendula (Плачу вперёд!)
  • 2001: Plachu vperyod! (Плачу вперёд!)
  • 2004: Vsadnik po imeni Smert (Всадник по имени Смерть)
  • 2006: The Unknown (La Sconosciuta)
  • 2008: Kacheli (Качели)
  • 2008: Yuryev den (Юрьев день)
  • 2009: Italians
  • 2009: The double hour (La doppia ora)
  • 2010: Zolotoe Sechenie
  • 2010: Il padre e lo straniero
  • 2011: Wrong Game (Le roman de ma femme)
  • 2011: Dva dnya
  • 2011: Raspoutine (TV)
  • 2012: Lilith - Eternal Seduction (Golfa straume zem ledus kalna)
  • 2019: Odessa

Awards

  • 2006: David di Donatello for The Unknown (Best Actress)
  • 2007: Nomination for the European Film Award for The Unknown ( Best Actress )
  • 2008: Actor Award of the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival for Yuryev den
  • 2008: Award of the Russian Film Critics Association for Yuryev den (Best Actress)
  • 2008: Golden Eagle (Solotoj Orjol) for Yuryev den (Best Actress)
  • 2009: Best Actor Award of the International Film Festival of Venice for The Double Hour
  • 2009: Nika nomination for Yuryev den (Best Actress)
  • 2011: Nika nomination for Zolotoe Sechenie (Best Actress)

Web links

Commons : Kseniya Rappoport  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Article at rian.ru ( Memento from November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian; accessed November 10, 2007)
  2. ↑ cf. Young, Deborah: The Unknown (La Sconosciuta) . In: Variety, October 23-29, 2006, Film Reviews, p. 33
  3. ↑ cf. “I even understand Tuscan jokes” . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 27, 2008, p. 8
  4. ↑ Nick Vivarelli: Rappoport to host Venice fest , Variety, August 13, 2008 (accessed August 22, 2008)
  5. ↑ cf. Venezia: a Ksenia Rappoport la Coppa Volpi per la migliore attrice at lastampa.it, September 12, 2009
  6. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation N 171 of April 4, 2015 "On receiving the state awards of the Russian Federation" (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Rappoport, Xenija Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Раппопорт, Ксения Александровна; Rappoport, Ksenia Alexandrovna; Rappoport, Kseniya; Rappoport, Ksenia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION russian actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union