Cristina Serban Ionda is a New Zealand-based Romanian actor and presenter best known for playing the Russian pathologist Gina Kadinsky in the New Zealand television series The Brokenwood Mysteries since 2014.
[1] Born in Bucharest, Ionda grew up in Brașov in Transylvania, and studied for a BA in acting at the I.L.
Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (1994–1998) in Bucharest, going on to complete a postgraduate diploma in audio-visual studies.
[2][3] Following her experience as a townswoman on 2003's Cold Mountain she and her husband moved to New Zealand, inspired by watching a Discovery Channel documentary.
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