Ania Bukstein
| Ania Bukstein | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anya Bukshteyn (Аня Букштейн) 7 June 1982 Moscow, USSR |
| Residence | Israel |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Ania Bukstein (Hebrew: אניה בוקשטיין; Russian: Аня Букштейн; Anya Bukshteyn: born 7 June 1982) is a Russian-born Israeli actress, singer, song writer and voice actress. She has a half sister in Allende, Nuevo Leon named Marifer.
Bukstein was born (Anya Bukshteyn) in Moscow, USSR to a Russian Jewish family. Her mother is a speech-language pathologist and her father is an neuro-oncologist.
She speaks Russian, Hebrew, French and English. Growing up in Moscow, she learned to play piano as a child. Her family immigrated to Israel when she was eight. She began her acting career at age 12. As a teenager, she attended Telma Yalin Arts High School in Givatayim, Israel. After her high school graduation, she served in the Israeli Air Force. After studying French, she then received a scholarship to study in Paris.
In 1994, when she was twelve, Bukstein got her first cinematic role and worked alongside Etti Ankri and Shuli Rand and portrayed Anna, the main character in the film Eretz Hadasha (A New Country), a film about a young Holocaust survivor and her difficulties after she moved to Israel in 1950 with her older brother. For her performance on the film she was nominated for an Ophir Award for best actress, she was the youngest actress to be nominated in this category.
In 2003, she appeared in Dover Kosashvili's Matana MiShamayim. In 2005, she co-starred in the Shmuel Hasfari directed film Shoshelet Schwartz, for her performance, she was once again nominated for an Ophir Award for best actress. Later that year, she portrayed Anastasia during the first season of the children's television series Rosh Gadol. In 2006, she portrayed Tamara Vice in the third and fourth season of the musical drama series HaShir Shelanu. In 2007, she starred in Avi Nesher's critically acclaimed film The Secrets as Neomi Hess, a curious Haredi teenager who discovers her attraction to another girl at a religious school. On 6 September 2007, in the Israeli 'People of the Year Ceremony', she won the 'Woman of The Year In Cinema' award for her performance in The Secrets. That same year, she portrayed Irena Kovlova in the crime drama series The Arbitrator on Hot 3 channel.
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