Janina Elkin (born 20 December 1982 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Republic) is a German film and theater actress.

[1][2][3][4] Janina Elkin was born on 20 December 1982 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR.

With a scholarship, she studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City from 2001 to 2004.

From 2009 to 2010 she played the role of Baby in the musical Dirty Dancing in Berlin.

Elkin played her first major leading role in the feature film Bela Kiss: Prologue [de], released in Germany in January 2013.