Marina Andreevna Pupenina, known by her pseudonym Marina Aleksandrova (Russian: Мари́на Андре́евна Пупе́нина; born 29 August 1982) is a Russian actress, best known for her role as Catherine the Great in the television series Ekaterina. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2016).^[1]

Was born on 29 August 1982 in the Hungarian town of Kiskunmajsa. Her father Andrei Pupenin served in the Soviet Army, stationed in Hungary, and her mother worked as a professor at Herzen University.

In 1986, the family moved to Lake Baikal, then to Tula, finally settling in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1987. In 1996, after graduating from high school with specializations in mathematics and music (harp), that same year she joined the Imagine drama school, and joined the Shukin Theatre School under Valentina Nikolaenko.

From 2006 to 2011, was an actress for the Sovremennik Theater Company in Moscow.^[1]

On 7 June 2008, Aleksandrova married fellow actor Ivan Stebunov.^[2][3] They divorced in 2010. In 2011 Aleksandrova met director Andrey Boltenko; their first child, a son named Andrey, was born in 2012. Aleksandrova gave birth to their second child, a daughter named Yekaterina, in 2015.^[4]