Rina Grishina

Ekaterina Nikolaevna Grishina, better known as Rina Grishina and Rina Gri, is a Russian actress.

Biography

She graduated from ballet and music schools in violin and piano. She worked for 6 years at the Zazerkalye Musical Theater in Saint Petersburg.
She played her first film role at the age of 13, in the screening of "Crimes and Punishments" directed by Julian Jarrold for the BBC.
In 2012, she graduated from the Saint Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts, studying in course.
In 2017, she appeared in an erotic photo shoot for MAXIM.
Grishina founded the International short film festival Moscow Shorts in March 2018. The festival's mission is to introduce audiences to the best short films from directors around the world. The project closed in February 2023.

Personal life

Rina has been married to Romanian director and screenwriter Alecs Nastoiu since 2020. For a long time, she lived and worked in Moscow. In 2022 she moved to Europe with her husband.

Selected filmography

Crimes and Punishments as singing beggar girl
Streets of Broken Lights as Polina Dymova
Games for Adults as Katya
Secrets of Investigation as Karelin's secretary
Sherlock Holmes as Violet Westberry
Klim as Elizaveta Zueva
Kitchen as Sveta
as Svetlana Alekseeva
as Alisa Rybkina
as Victoria Goncharova, clairvoyant
Just Imagine Things We Know as Ira Gromova
as sister
The Secret of Pin-Up Island as Alesia

Awards

Boston Science Fiction Film Festival : The Secret of Pin-Up Island with Alecs Nastoiu, Ovidiu Radian Vasu, and Corina Florescu
Long Island International Film Expo : Seven Days and a Coke with Alecs Nastoiu, Anastasia Raykova, David Royzengurt, and Sebastiano Kiniger