Hilkka Terttu Annikki Kinnunen (born 19 March 1925) is a Finnish actress and opera singer.

[1] Kinnunen began her studies in the first annual course of the Suomen Teatterikoulu during the Continuation War in 1943.

[2] Before founding the Operettiteatteri, she worked at, among others, the Äänislinna Theater, Helsingin Työväenteatteri and Kansanteatteri.

Aino Kukkonen edited the book Prima-Donna about Kinnunen's life in connection with her 80th birthday in 2005,[4] and the story of Hilkka Kinnunen's youth was told in Lotta-Sofia Saahko's book Kahvia ja karjalanpiirakoita, published in 2021.

Hilkka Kinnunen was married to actor Ekke Hämäläinen from 1948 to 1971 and to Bill Farrell from 1976 to 1979.