Marina Frenk was born in 1986 in Chisinau, Moldova. From 2005 to 2008 she studied acting at the Folkwang University in Essen. Her first guest engagements took her to the Grillo Theater, after which she played in the ensemble of the Schauspielhaus in Bochum, the Centraltheater Leipzig and the Schauspiel Köln. She is Nora in Elmar Goerden’s production of Ibsen, and in Cologne she appears in Phaedra, Wir Kinder von Theben and Der Idiot, among others. She made her debut as a cinema actress in Jessica Krummacher’s Totem, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2011. Marina Frenk is also the singer of the folk band Kapelsky and the electro-dance band The real Baba Dunyah.