--- name: "Valentina Ananina" canonical: "https://film.one/person/valentina-ananina" fi1m_id: "valentina-ananina" imdb_id: "nm0025649" tmdb_id: 1118286 wikidata_id: "Q4064829" roles: [] born: "18 May 1933" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 84 average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-25T08:09:39.060556+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Valentina Ananina ## Identity Valentina Ananina - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/valentina-ananina - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** valentina-ananina - **IMDb ID:** nm0025649 - **TMDB ID:** 1118286 - **Wikidata ID:** Q4064829 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Ananina, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4064829, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025649/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1118286 Actor. Born 18 May 1933 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR. ## Details - **Born:** 18 May 1933, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR - **Active:** 1957–2000 - **Also known as:** Ананьина Валентина Георгиевна, Valentina Ananyina, В. Ананьина, V. Anan'yina - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 87 (1), 2000s 81 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Ananina, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4064829, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025649/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1118286 ## Streaming the US now - **The Roku Channel:** [*The Cranes Are Flying*](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md) (87) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Valentina Ananina is a Soviet and Russian actress. Born on 18 May 1933 in Moscow, she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1957, studying under Yuli Raizman. She is known for her role as Lyuba in *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957). Ananina has appeared in more than 200 film and television roles since her debut in 1955, often in supporting or episodic parts, including *Ballad of a Soldier* (1959), *Walking the Streets of Moscow* (1964) and *The Postman's White Nights* (2014). She was an actress at the Studio Theatre of Film Actor from 1957 to 1990. *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, ru.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Cast Away* (2000), Fi1m 81, as Russian Babushka — [page](https://film.one/film/cast-away.md) - *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), Fi1m 87, as Lyuba — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md) ## Complete filmography (121) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Dancing on Top* (2022), as grandmother - *The Green Carriage* (2015), as aunt Valya - *And Quiet Flows the Don* (2015), series, as тётка Аксиньи - *The Postman's White Nights* (2014), as Valentina - *Embracing the Sky* (2014), series, as Ulyana, torgovka - *The Best Movie 3-DE* (2011), as бабушка Сани - *Выхожу тебя искать* (2010), series, as мать Антонова - *Дворик* (2010), series, as Зоя Федоровна Прохорова - *Однажды будет любовь* (2009), series, as тетя Маша - *The Bay of Missing Divers* (2007), Actor - *Flash.card* (2006), as old woman in the village Moshkin - *Seventh Heaven* (2006), series, as Ekaterina Ivanovna - *Small Fry* (2005), as старуха - *Cast Away* (2000), as Russian Babushka — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/cast-away.md) - *The Thief* (1997), Actor - *Dyuba-Dyuba* (1992), Actor - *Maestro With Thread* (1991), Actor - *Vladimir Dubrovsky: The Noble Robber* (1990), as Egorovna - *Crazy* (1989), Actor - *It Happened Near the Sea* (1989), Actor - *Под куполом цирка* (1989), series, as provodnitsa - *Under The Steps* (1989), as Aprosinya Stepanovna - *The Dodgers* (1988), as Dispatcher - *Restricted Area* (1988), Actor - *The Time of Sons* (1987), Actor - *Zina-Zinulya* (1986), as Dorm janitor - *Myth* (1986), as episode - *Misty Shores* (1985), Actor - *We Will See* (1985), Actor - *A Legal Marriage* (1985), as nurse - *A Small Favor* (1984), Actor - *A Man at the Station* (1983), Actor - *June, the Beginning of Summer* (1983), Actor - *Inspector Losev* (1983), as knitwear factory employee - *Inspector Losev* (1983), series, as Sotrudnitsa trikotazhnoy fabriki - *Burn, Burn Bright* (1983), Actor - *A Canary Cage* (1983), Actor - *Seven Tin Soldiers* (1983), as Tyotya Frosya - *A Bus Driver* (1983), as жена ветерана - *Everything Could Have Been Otherwise* (1982), as Vera - *Commander's Daughter* (1981), as Валентина Беда - *Smoke of the Fatherland* (1980), Actor - *Flight with the Astronaut* (1980), as Зина, продавщица - *Steep Field* (1980), Actor - *Light in the Window* (1980), Actor - *Rain in a Foreign City* (1979), as Анна Петровна, инженер - *Siberiade* (1979), Actor - *Polar Fox Napoleon III* (1979), as physical education teacher - *The Last Chance* (1979), as Yershov's mother - *Last Year's Quadrille* (1978), Actor - *I Want to See You* (1978), Actor - *A Portrait with Rain* (1978), Actor - *Remember Sometimes* (1978), Actor - *Adventures of Nuki* (1977), Actor - *Underage* (1977), as episode - *Without Father* (1977), Actor - *The Last Sacrifice* (1976), as Merchant Woman - *My Calling* (1976), as Алла Юрьевна - *Crime: Deception* (1976), as секретарь в милиции - *We Didn't Learn This* (1976), as english teacher - *Last Summer of Childhood* (1975), as мать Витьки Бурова - *The last summer of childhood* (1975), series, as Vitka Burov's mother - *Великое противостояние* (1975), Actor - *The Peasant's Son* (1975), Actor - *Consider Me an Adult* (1974), Actor - *Romance for Lovers* (1974), Actor - *Such High Mountains* (1974), Actor - *Aniskin and Fantomas* (1974), series, as Попова, кассир - *The Red Snowball Tree* (1974), as (uncredited) - *Aniskin and Fantomas* (1973), as кассир Попова - *Pyotr Ryabinkin* (1973), Actor - *Old Walls* (1973), as secretary of the party Committee - *Two on the Road* (1973), as nurse from a children's clinic - *Tracer Element* (1972), as эпизод - *The Station Master* (1972), Actor - *The Long Recess* (1972), Actor - *A Fakir for an Hour* (1972), as горничная в гостинице Васильевна - *Integral* (1971), Actor - *Byelorussian Station* (1971), as episode - *Investigation Held by ZnaToKi* (1971), series, as Ксения Мухина - мама Миши, Баушкина - *Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair* (1970), as fisherwoman - *Green Signals* (1970), as Mishka's mother - *Gold* (1970), Actor - *Вальс* (1969), Actor - *Our Friends* (1969), as Katya - *People are Like Rivers...* (1969), as Галина, почтальон - *The House and the Host* (1968), Actor - *The Shield and the Sword* (1968), as krankenschwester in einem sowjetkrankenhaus - *The Road to 'Saturn'* (1967), Actor - *A Friend's Heart* (1967), as Natasha Sokolova - *Moonlit Nights* (1967), as Yarchuk's Wife - *Wild Honey* (1967), as military traffic controller - *The Elusive Revengers* (1967), as (uncredited) - *Зареченские женихи* (1967), Actor - *The Tale of Tsar Saltan* (1967), as Mother (uncredited) - *The Grey Illness* (1966), Actor - *A Royal Regatta* (1966), as Aleksei Ivanovich's companion (uncredited) - *Заблудший* (1966), Actor - *Journey* (1966), Actor - *Time, Forward!* (1965), as brigade member - *Walking the Streets of Moscow* (1964), Actor - *The Man Who Doubts* (1963), as мать Вовочки - *Pavlukha* (1962), as cranewoman - *The Judgment* (1962), as woman at a court hearing (uncredited) - *Fuse* (1962), series, Actor - *No Fear, No Blame* (1962), as nanny with a stroller (uncredited) - *Our Mutual Friend* (1962), Actor - *The House with the Mezzanine* (1961), as Dasha - *In Transit* (1961), Actor - *Heirs* (1960), as Светлана - *People on the Bridge* (1959), as (uncredited) - *Ballad of a Soldier* (1959), as Alyosha's Neighbor (uncredited) - *Strict Woman* (1959), Actor - *Life Has Passed By* (1959), as Prisoner's bride - *The Variegateds Case* (1958), as работница завода (нет в титрах) - *Girl without an Address* (1958), as (uncredited) - *The Communist* (1958), as Frosya - *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), as Lyuba — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md) - *Flames on the Volga* (1956), as Любка резалка - *The Lesson of Life* (1955), as Nyura houseworker - *Soldier Ivan Brovkin* (1955), as Derevenskaya devushka --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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