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name: "Ekaterina Chtchelkanova"
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born: "2 May 1970"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T07:07:35.341061+00:00"
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# Ekaterina Chtchelkanova

Actor. Born 2 May 1970 in Leningrad, USSR [now Saint Petersburg, Russia].

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 May 1970, Leningrad, USSR [now Saint Petersburg, Russia]
- **Also known as:** Ekaterina Nikolaievna Shchelkanova
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Shchelkanova, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3875064, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770704/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17644

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Chicago*](https://film.one/film/chicago.md) (73)

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## Biography

Ekaterina Shchelkanova, also credited as Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, is a Russian ballerina, singer and actress. Born on 2 May 1970 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), she trained at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and joined the Kirov Ballet before defecting to the United States during a 1992 tour. She later danced with American Ballet Theatre from 1995 to 2001.

To film audiences she is known for her role as the Hungarian prisoner Katalin Helinski, nicknamed Hunyak, in the musical *Chicago* (2002). She also appeared as the Swan Lake Soloist in *Center Stage* (2000) and as Darya in *The End of Silence* (2006). In 2010 she founded the Open World Dance Foundation.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Chicago* (2002), Fi1m 73, as Katalin Helinski "Hunyak" — [page](https://film.one/film/chicago.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Odin's Shield Maiden* (2007), Actor
- *The End of Silence* (2006), as Darya · Associate Producer
- *Chicago* (2002), as Katalin Helinski "Hunyak" — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/chicago.md)
- *Center Stage* (2000), as Swan Lake Soloist (as Ekaterina Shelkanova)

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