Ania Bukstein

Ania Bukstein was born in 1982 in Moscow

Bukstein was born in Moscow in 1982 to a Jewish family. Her mother is a speech-language pathologist and her father is a neuro-oncologist. She studied classical piano as a child and moved to Israel with her parents.

She studied drama at an arts school in Tel Aviv and theater at Thelma Yellin Arts High School in Givatayim. She served in the Israeli Air Force Band and later received a scholarship to study in Paris.

Her first film role came in 1994 as the lead in A New Country, which brought an Ophir Award nomination. She later starred in films such as The Secrets and in series such as The Arbitrator and False Flag. She played Kinvara in Game of Thrones in 2016 and appeared in the American series Genius in 2017.

On stage she played at Habima, the Cameri and Beit Lessin, and led musicals such as The Sound of Music and Legally Blonde. She also dubbed animated films and series into Hebrew. In 2013 she released Sunday, an album of her own songs.

She married real estate developer Dotan Weiner in 2013. Their first daughter was born in 2018.