YANINA (she/her) is a trilingual actress (English, Russian, French) based between London and New York. Yanina was born in Moscow and educated in Paris, where she trained in classical ballet from an early age which shaped her strong physical approach to performance. She made her film debut in The Runner (2011) alongside Nicolas Cage and has since appeared in over 40 film, television, and theatre productions across Europe and the United States. Her screen credits include Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless, Kirill Mikhanovsky’s Coming to You, the AMC series Dietland, the Discovery Series Grave Mysteries, and the BBC drama The Undeclared War.
Alongside her acting career, Yanina is also a writer as well as a theatre and film director. She recently wrote and performed the solo show The Sound of Absence, and continues to develop original work for both stage and screen.
