Ekaterina Varnava

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Varnava (born 9 December 1984 in Moscow) is a Russian theatre, film, television and voice actress, television presenter, comedian and choreographer. She is best known as a participant and choreographer of the comedy television show Comedy Woman, which ran from 2008 to 2020. Soon after her birth her family moved to East Germany, where her father was stationed as part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, and she lived in Wunsdorf until the age of seven before graduating from the National University of Science and Technology MISiS with a degree in jurisprudence. She began performing in the KVN comedy competition in 2003 with the team Svoi Sekrety, and from the debut episode of Comedy Woman in 2008 she performed as the show's sex symbol and also worked as its choreographer. She has hosted numerous television programs in Russia and Ukraine, including the Ukrainian program Who's on Top?, until she was banned from entering Ukraine due to visiting Crimea. In February 2022 she publicly opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.