Ania Bukstein

Bukstein was born (Аня Букштейн) as an only child in Moscow, USSR, in 1982, to a Russian Jewish family. Her parents are both doctors - her mother is a speech-language pathologist and her father is a neuro-oncologist.\n', '

She speaks Russian, Hebrew, French and English. Growing up in Moscow, she studied classical piano as a child starting at the age of 5, which she says she studied with a strict discipline common amongst children in the Soviet Union. She and her parents immigrated to Israel in the early 1990s when she was 8 years old, while her grandparents still live in Moscow. She began her acting career at age 12. However, in Israel she gave up her dream of becoming a professional concert pianist. As a teenager, she attended Telma Yalin Arts High School in Givatayim, Israel. After her high school graduation, she served for two years in the Israeli Air Force. After studying French, s…