Nina Kiri
Birthdate: Sep 3, 1992
Birthplace: Belgrade, Serbia (Former Yugoslavia)
Nina Kiri (birthname: Nina Kiridžija) is a Serbian-Canadian actor, director, and writer best known for her role as Alma in the acclaimed series, The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025). Kiri made her feature debut in the leading role in Canadian director/writer Josias Tschanz’s thriller, I Am Vengeance (2013), with Garwin Sanford, Steven Love and Flora Karas, with Kiri starring or co-starring in a series of subsequent Canadian horror movies produced and released by Breakthrough Entertainment, including director/co-writer Chad Archibald’s body horror movie, The Heretics (2017), with Ry Barrett and Jorja Cadence.
Kiri co-starred with Mirjana Jokovic in director/writer Sanja Zivkovic’s Canadian drama, Easy Land (2019), with Daniel Kash and Richard Clarkin, and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival before a theatrical release by Mongrel Media, and then Kiri appeared in her first U.S.-produced feature, director/co-writer Christos Nikou’s sci-fi romantic drama, Fingernails (2023), starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White and Luke Wilson, and which was released theatrically and on streaming by Apple after launching at the Telluride Film Festival. Kiri co-starred in the Canadian crime drama, Escalation (2023), with Chris Mark, George Tchortov, Jeff Yung, and Mustafa Bulut under Jimmy Mak’s direction, and which was released in limited theatrical pattern by Vertical Entertainment.
Nina Kiri topped the cast of Canadian director/co-writer Melanie Charbonneau’s drama, Out Standing (2025), based on Sandra Perron’s memoir, Outstanding in the Field, with Vincent Leclerc, Antoine Pilon, and Enrico Colantoni, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and released by Sphere Media. Kiri starred in director/writer Ian Tuason’s Canadian horror movie, Undertone (2025), co-starring Adam DiMarco, Michele Duquet, and Keana Lyn Bastidas, and which was released widely by A24 after launching at the Fantasia Film Festival.
Kiri appeared in the cast of director/co-writer Filip Kovacevic’s Serbian-produced, English-language sci-fi adventure, Sanctuary (date to be announced), with Marija Karan, Adnan Haskovic and Predrag Bjelac, and produced by Void Pictures, and then Kiri had a supporting role in Canadian director/writer/producer Janet Rose Nguyen’s horror sci-fi movie, Welcome to Kurosawa House (date to be announced), with Tymika Tafari, Ivy Miller, Tanisha Thammavongsa, Jean Yoon and Katherine Fogler, and produced by Kim Kirton, Alice Wang and Connie Wang.
Personal life
Nina Kiri was born in Belgrade when it was the capital of what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and raised in Belgrade and Vancouver, Canada, by her parents. Kiri attended and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations.
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Escalation
A former police officer puts aside his differences with the force in order to track down his brother's murderer. He teams with a younger detective to bring the case home.
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Multilingual: Nina Kiri is fluent in Serbo-Croatian, French, and English.
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