Fania Marinoff was born on March 20, 1890 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire. She was an actress, known for The Unsuspected Isles (1915), The Lure of Mammon (1915) and Nedra (1915). She was married to Carl Van Vechten. She died on November 17, 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.