NAME Ksenia Solo
FILM Black Swan
ROLE Ballerina
PREVIOUS WORK Life Unexpected
For her latest project, Black Swan, Toronto’s Ksenia Solo required little research. A professional dancer before injury forced her to hang up her slippers at 14,Solo’s latest role has her cast as as an up-and-coming dancer in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis.
“I can definitely relate to just how much commitment and how much of your soul and your being has to be dedicated to this art, ”she says of ballet.
The psychological thriller examines the inner workings of the ultra-competitive world of professional ballet.
“The greatest thing for me was that I got to work with my dream director and basically a dream cast,” she says of the experience.
Solo will also star in Showcase’s Lost Girl (airing September 12 at 9 p.m.), a show she describes as “a very dark, kind of fantasy noir series.” Later next year, we’ll see her in The Factory, a film in which she will play a 15-year-old prostitute alongside actor John Cusack.
