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May 02, 1970 Saint Petersburg 54 years old
Russian singer, actress and dancer
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About Ekaterina Shchelkanova
- Ekaterina Nikolaievna Shchelkanova (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ?????????, also spelled Chtchelkanova; born May 2, 1970) is a Russian ballerina, singer and actress from Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St.
- Petersburg, Russia).
- To the American audience, she is most notably cast as Hunyak, the Hungarian prisoner from the musical Chicago (2002).
- Chtchelkanova was also cast as Darya in the Canadian film The End of Silence and held parts in the films Odin's Shield Maiden, and Center Stage. Shchelkanova is a graduate from the Vaganova Academy, where she studied under Ludmila Safronova, then joined the Kirov Ballet.
- During a tour to the US in 1992, she defected.
- From 1995-2001, she was a member of the American Ballet Theatre.
- She has appeared with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal in 2008, and with the Space Coast Ballet in 2005.
- In 2010, she founded the Open World Dance Foundation.
