- Russian-born leading lady who fled her country during the October Revolution and subsequently starred in French and German films (often period dramas) in the 1920's.
- Just before beginning of filming of "The Man Without Desire", in which the actress played a young socialite, she was persuaded by Ivor Novello, appearing as a Venetian aristocrat, to change her name to "something that sounded less emetic".
- The actress Nina Vanna began her film career in England where she made her debut with "Scrooge" (23) as Alice.
- Vanna was married three times, first to Robert Kind from whom she was later divorced, secondly to film director Eric Hakim (1900-1967), who she also divorced, and finally to an importer/exporter and art collector Peter Provatoroff from 1946 until her death in Banstead, Surrey, UK.
- She extended her field of activity to France and Germany from 1924.
- After a longer interruption followed her first and last sound film at the same time with "The Show Goes On" (1937).
- 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.
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