Yekaterina Rednikova

Yekaterina Rednikova — Biography

Yekaterina Rednikova is one of the Russian actresses who stood out in the cinema of the 1990s; her name is linked above all with her role in The Thief and with the Turkish production Balalayka. Born in Moscow, she has worked in both theatre and film and has appeared in international productions.

She completed her acting training in 1994 at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), and her filmography begins with the 1990 film Babnik. The first major turning point of her career was The Thief (1997): the film, in which she played Katya, was nominated for an Oscar, and in 1998 Rednikova won the Nika Award for Best Actress. For her performance in Balalayka (2000), which she joined without speaking Turkish, she was nominated in the Best Turkish Actor category of the Turkish critics' awards; in the film she played Tanya.

In the 2000s she appeared in films such as Archangel (2005), The Man of No Return (2006), Sovereign (2007), The Gift to Stalin (2008), Leningrad (2009) and Home (2011), as well as the 2005 and 2006 titles Bolshoe zlo i melkie pakosti and Posledniy bronepoezd; in Archangel she took a lead alongside Daniel Craig. In more recent years she has been seen in the 2010 series Zapiski ekspeditora Taynoy kantselyarii, the film La ligne de feu (2020) and in two episodes of the series Kazanova, and in 2022 she played Major Anna Svetlova in Srok davnosti.