Valentina Zimina (1 January 1899 â 3 December 1928) was a silent screen actress.
Russian-born, the daughter of a Moscow stage actress, Zimina served as a lieutenant in the Women's Battalion of Death for three years. Prior to the war she had been a star of the comic opera in Petrograd, singing operatic soprano. She spent time in a Siberian prison, from which she escaped and made her way across Asia and into Hollywood. There she played in vaudeville in Long Beach, and was a standout with a hit. The rest of her family were killed in the Russian Civil War. She made her credited screen debut opposite Bessie Love and Warner Baxter in Victor Fleming's A Son of His Father, followed by five more 1920s romantic melodramas. Zimina died of influenza just before her last film was released.