Born in Leningrad. Since 2005, she has been a student in the Faculty of Set Design and Theatrical Technology at the St Petersburg State Academy of Theatrical Art (specialising in the technology of production design). From 2003 to 2005, Ksenia Kiseleva trained as a make-up artist at Lenfilm Studios (Studio KADR Film School). Since 2004, this has enabled her to work with a variety of film studios, including Rinko Media, Reproduction Films, Globus, Panorama and, of course, Lenfilm.
Ksenia has also worked as a make-up artist on several productions at the Theatre Academy Student Theatre on Mokhovaya, and assisted with set and prop design for the The Fancy (G. A. Tovstonogov BDT, Director - Gennady Trostyanetsky, Designer - Vladimir Firer, 2006).