- Xenia Desni was born on January 19, 1894 in Kyiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for The Tower of Silence (1925), Erzherzog Johann (1929) and Der Meister der Welt (1927). She died on May 27, 1962 in Roquefort-les-Pins, France.
- Mother of actress Tamara Desni.
- The rise of the sound film rang in the end of her career, she only appeared in the movie "Kriminalkommissar Eyck" (1940).
- She and her family fled the Russian Revolution. They first moved to Constantinople, where she began her acting career in Vaudeville. She later moved to Berlin. She later was involved in films directed by Johannes Guter.
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