41 Actresses from Saint Petersburg

Mariella Ahrens is a Russian-born German actress.

Oksana Aleksandrovna Akinshina is a Russian actress. She is best known for her roles in films Sisters (2001), Lilya 4-ever (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), and Hipsters (2008).

Vera Vladimirovna Altayskaya was a Soviet actress known for her roles in children's fairy tale films and comedies.

Yuliya Arturovna Aug is a Russian actress. Her film credits include The Student, Ekaterina and Leto.

Vera Vsevolodovna Baranovskaya was a Russian actress. She performed in more than twenty films between 1916 and 1935.

Maria Mikhailovna Blumenthal-Tamarina, was an honored Soviet movie and theatre actress. She was given the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1936) and was one of the first actresses to receive this honor. She was also recognized as Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1925 and People's Artist of RSFSR in 1928. She was also named a recipient of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Elizaveta Mikhailovna Boyarskaya is a Russian theater and film actress.

Olga Igorevna Buzova is a Russian media personality and singer. Buzova is regarded as one of the most successful Russian contemporary entertainers.

Lidia Alekseyevna Charskaya, January 31, 1875 – March 18, 1938, was a Russian writer and actress. Charskaya was her pseudonym; her real last name was Churilova.

Angelina Sergeyevna Danilova is a Russian singer, model, actress and TV personality under The Prizm Entertainment. She made her solo singing debut with the digital single "As You Are" on January 17, 2020. She was the 2018 recipient of the Korea Image Flower Stone Award for her work on promoting Korea to the world.

Tatiana (Tatyana) Vasilyevna Doronina is a popular Soviet/Russian actress who has performed in movies and the theater. She is generally regarded as one of the most talented actresses of her generation and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin. She is the mother of actress and TV presenter Maria Shukshina.

Alisa Brunovna Freindlich is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading actress of the Bolshoi Drama in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. Having rejected the advances of NKVD police head Lavrentiy Beria, the affair was exposed resulting, initially, in a death sentence later reprieved to work camp imprisonment in Siberia; she was released after eight years. She was murdered in her Moscow apartment in 1981.

Tamara Geva was a Russian-American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer. She was the daughter of art patron and collector Levko Gevergeyev and she was the first wife of the well-known ballet dancer/choreographer George Balanchine. Throughout her life she danced with Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, performed with husband George Balanchine, and performed in and choreographed many notable Broadway shows. Geva also wrote an autobiographical book entitled Split Seconds.

Lila Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964), and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film.

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kolosova was a Russian stage actress, later translator and memoirist. She was the daughter of Elena Kolosova, a prima ballerina.

Kira Alexandrovna Kreylis-Petrova is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Honored Artist of Russia (1993).

Katerina Yuryevna Ksenyeva is a Russian actress, singer, composer and journalist. New York-based singer, composer, actress, author and journalist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013, Ksenyeva started working on permanent basis in New York City singing in English and Hebrew.

Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva is a Russian-American actress and dancer. Levieva was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and began training as a rhythmic gymnast at age three. At age 11, she immigrated with her mother and twin brother to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where she continued her training.

Yulia Nikolayevna Linskaya was a Russian stage actress, associated with Aleksandrinsky Theatre.

Natalia Romanovna Makarova is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West."

Tamara Fyodorovna Makarova was a Soviet actress. She appeared in 31 films between 1927 and 1984. She was married to the Soviet film director Sergei Gerasimov.

Olga Vladimirovna Medynich is a Russian theater and film actress.

Vera Arkadevna Michurina-Samoilova was a Russian and Soviet actress of Saint Petersburg / Leningrad. She was a People's Artist of the USSR.

Tatiana Borisovna Naynik is a Russian singer, actress, model, producer. Best known for being a member in the Russian-Ukrainian girl group VIA Gra from 2002.

Marina Mstislavovna Neyolova is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actress. She has appeared in 37 films since 1969. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1987).

Genia Nikolajewa (1904–2001) was a Russian-born German actress who made films in several countries, notably in Germany where she appeared in films such as Robert Siodmak's 1932 comedy Quick in a succession of supporting or minor roles. She later moved to Hollywood. She was sometimes credited as Genia Nikolaieva or Eugenia Nikolajewa.

Ida Orloff was a theater and silent film actress during the early 20th century. She was already "renowned for her performances of modern high literature at leading German theaters", according to historians Jennifer Kapczynski and Michael Richardson, before she starred in the classic Danish silent film Atlantis, which was based upon the 1912 novel by Gerhardt Hauptmann. It was discovered years later that Orloff had been a secret lover and an inspirational muse for Hauptmann, who won the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature. She met and began a relationship with him in 1905.

Tatyana Lvovna Piletskaya PAR is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. She was born in Leningrad, USSR.

Anna Polina is a Russian-French pornographic actress and model.

Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport 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.

Katya Sambuca is a Russian singer, actress, television presenter, and erotic model. She is married to Bob Jack, a director of adult movies, and is a character in his novel Por-no!

Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova was a Soviet and Russian film actress best known for her lead role in The Cranes Are Flying. She received a number of awards for the film, including a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival. Samoilova had several major roles in the 1960s before largely disappearing from public life. In 1993, she was named a People's Artist of Russia. She made a comeback in the 2000s and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Moscow Film Festival.

Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova was a Russian-born writer, theater critic and historian, actress, and puppeteer. Fleeing Russia after the October Revolution, she moved to France and continued her craft. She wrote and performed marionette shows in Europe and was one of the most prolific women dance and theater critics of the first half of the twentieth century. When World War II broke out, she moved to Portugal and later the United States, before returning to Paris.

Lyudmila Petrovna Senchina was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian singer (soprano). In 1979 she was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR and in 2002 the title of People's Artist of Russia. Merited Artist of Ukraine (2003). She made popular such songs as Cinderella, Stones, Love and Separation, White Acacia, Birthday, White Dance, Field Flowers .

Lidiya Petrovna Sukharevskaya was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov. Her frequent stage partner was Boris Tenin, her husband. She also appeared in 14 films between 1939 and 1981. Sukharevskaya was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.

Olga Aleksandrovna Sutulova is a Russian theater and film actress.

Olga Vladimirovna Volkova is a Russian theatre and film actress. She began her career at the Bryantsev Youth Theatre in Leningrad. She appeared in more than ninety films since 1968.

Zarifa Pashaevna Mgoyan ;, known as Zara (За́ра), is a Russian pop singer, actress and social activist. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2016).

Olga Andryevna Zhiznyeva was a famous Soviet actress.