Oksana Akinshina was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), where she currently lives. Her father was a car mechanic and her mother an accountant. She has a younger sister. Starting acting at age 12, Akinshina was discovered by Sergei Bodrov, Jr., and she made her screen début in the Russian crime film Sisters (2001), Bodrov's own directorial debut. Her second film, Lilya 4-Ever (2001), earned her a 2002 European Film Award nomination for Best Actress. She lost, however, to the eight actresses of the film 8 Women (2002), directed by François Ozon. For her role in Lilya 4-Ever, she also received the award for Best Actress in Leading Role from the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's national film awards.Since then Akinshina has acted in the films Het Zuiden, directed by Martin Koolhoven, and The Bourne Supremacy (2004), directed by Paul Greengrass. From 2007 to 2010, Akinshina was married to businessman Dmitry Litvinov, with whom she has a son, Filip Litvinov, born 2 June 2009. In 2012, she remarried to film producer Archil Gelovani. On 15 January 2013, Akinshina gave birth to her second son Konstantin, and on 29 January 2017, she gave birth to a daughter.

Filmography

• 2026A Fabulous Weekend
• Imprints
• Constantinople — Екатерина Николаевна Дикова
• 2025Family Ghost — Svetlana Kirsanova
• 2025Fire Boy
• One Call Bar — Жанна
• 2024I'm Responsible for the Words — Sveta Solntse
• Infidels — Ольга Шилковская
• 2024Return of Kesha's Parrot
• Наследники. Дар крови — Надежда
• 2023Syndrome — Masha
• 2023Unprincipled in the Village — Lyudmila
• The Dolls — Lena
• 2022The Mystery Of Candy Land — Svetlana Boeva
• 2021Chernobyl: Abyss — Olga
• Container — Sasha
• Six Empty Seats — Ira
• 2020Sputnik — Tatyana Klimova
• Unprincipled — Людмила
• 2019Quiet Comes the Dawn — Anton's mother
• 2019Where Does the Sea Flow?
• 2017Super Family. Better Than Avengers
• 2017Борец — Vera
• 2016Hammer — Vera
• 2016Super Family
• Petlya Nesterova — Ольга
• 2015SOS, Santa Claus or Everything Will Come True! — Olga
• 20148 New Dates — Vera
• Vysotsky. Four Hours of Real Life
• 20128 First Dates — Vera
• 2012Suicides — Marina
• 2012There's No Hurry
• 2011Vysotsky: Thank You For Being Alive — Tatyana Ivleva
• 2011Where Does the Sea Flow? — Mother
• Snowstorm
• 2009I Am — Nina
• 2008Birds of Paradise
• 2008Hipsters — Polza
• 2008Враг Номер Один
• 2006Countdown — Anna
• 2006Moscow Zero — Lyuba
• 2006Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan — Knesinka Elen
• 2004Moth Games — Zoyka
• 2004The Bourne Supremacy — Irena Neski
• 2004The South — Zoya
• Women in a Game Without Rules — Алка
• 2002In Motion — Ania
• 2002Lilya 4-ever — Lilja
• 2001Sisters — Sveta
• Мы из комикса

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 10 самых... — Self (archive footage)