Janina Elkin (born 20 December 1982 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Republic) is a German film and theater actress.
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, released in Germany in January 2013.She became internationally known with her role in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit.
Filmography
2003: Küssen verboten, Baggern erlaubt
2004: Tumbling Leaf – Ein Tag im Herbst
2005: Frauenhelden – Machos in der Sackgasse
2005: Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall: Harte Kerle
2005: Lorenz
2005: Schmetterlingseffekt
2006: Storm Tide
2006: Das Duo: Unter Strom
2009: SOKO 5113: Tote kuscheln nicht
2009: Scissu
2010: Wie Blumen
2010: Not Afraid
2010: 1000 Gramm
2011: Schloss Einstein
2012: Stille Nacht
2012: Die Welt nebenan
2012: Lady Europa
2013: Bela Kiss: Prologue
2013: In aller Freundschaft: Zeit für Veränderungen
2013: Der Landarzt: Erstickungsangst
2013: Global Player
2014: Vivre à Berlin
2014: Contese
2015: Fremdkörper
2015: Frühling zu zweit
2015: Noah
2015: SOKO Stuttgart: Masken
2015: Service
2016: Ente Gut! Mädchen allein zu Haus
2016: Tod auf Raten (Short Term Memory Loss)
2016: Ostfriesisch für Anfänger
2016: SOKO Leipzig: Tod eines Kollegen
2016–2018: Schloß Webstein
2017: Notruf Hafenkante: Abnabelung
2017: Vollmond
2017: Die andere Welt
2018: Der Besuch
2019: In aller Freundschaft – Die jungen Ärzte: Schwindel
2019: Matula – Tod auf Mallorca
2019: Darkroom – Tödliche Tropfen
2019: Tatort: Die harte Kern
2019: Lovers
2020: The Queen's Gambit
2021: Tatort: Was wir erben
2021: WaPo Lake Constance