Nina Vanna

Nina Vanna
Nina Vanna and Ivor Novello in "The Man Without Desire"
Born
Nina Yazykova

(1899-09-27)27 September 1899
Minsk, Belarus
Died8 November 1953(1953-11-08) (aged 54)
Battle, East Sussex, England, UK
OccupationActress
Years active1923–1937

Nina Kind Hakim Provatoroff, known by her stage name of Nina Vanna (née Yazykova; 27 September 1899 – 8 November 1953),[1] was a Russian-born British film actress who appeared in a number of silent films during the 1920s.

She sometimes played in historical dramas, playing Lady Jane Grey in the first of three film versions of her life (Lady Jane Grey; Or, the Court of Intrigue) and Lucrezia Borgia in what may be the first of several versions.

Vanna was married three times, first to Robert Kind from whom she was later divorced, secondly to film director Eric Hakim (1900–1967), whom she also divorced, and finally to an importer/exporter and art collector Peter Provatoroff[2] from 1946 until her death in Banstead, Surrey, UK.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ England & Wales, Death Index: 1916–2005
  2. ^ Taylor, Tobi Lopez (18 January 2016). Orzel: Scottsdale's Legendary Arabian Stallion. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781625854964.
  3. ^ Find-a-grave entry
  4. ^ "BFI Film and TV Database: Hakim, Eric". Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  5. ^ England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916–2005