Era Garafovna Ziganshina (Tatar: Эра Гарәф кызы Җиһаншина, Russian: Э́ра Гара́фовна Зига́ншина; born February 1, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of Russia (2005).

[1] Ziganshina was born in Kazan, Soviet Union.

[2] She studied at drama school at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).

From 1965 to 1976 he worked at the Baltic House Festival Theatre (with a break in 1970 he worked at the Russian drama theater in Chișinău).