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Irina Kupchenko

Soviet and Russian actress

Summary

Soviet and Russian actress

Field	Value
name	Irina Kupchenko
image	Ирина Купченко.jpg
caption	Irina Kupchenko in 2017
birth_name	Irina Petrovna Kupchenko
birth_date
birth_place	Vienna, Austria
death_date
nationality	Russian
occupation	Actress
years_active	1969–present

Irina Petrovna Kupchenko (; born 1 March 1948 in Vienna) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She rose to prominence after acting in Andrei Konchalovsky's 1969 movie adaptation of A Nest of Gentry. She has performed in more than forty films since 1969.

Her performance in Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion won her a Best Actress award at the Montreal World Film Festival.

She also played Alexandre in The Last Night of the Last Tsar, a play that was based on the book The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky.

Biography

She was born in Vienna in a military family that, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army in Austria (1955), moved to Kyiv. In childhood, Irina showed an interest in ballet. After high school, she initially studied foreign languages at the University of Kyiv, but after her debut in the role of Liza in A Nest of Gentlefolk, she decided to pursue a career in acting. She graduated from the Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow (1970) and began working in the Moscow Vakhtangov Theatre (1971).

Personal life

She was married to actor Vasily Lanovoy until his death in 2021.

Honors and awards

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980)
Lenin Komsomol Prize (1981)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989)
Order of Honour (1999)
State Prize of the Russian Federation (2002)
Order of Friendship (2019)

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	The Devil's Flower	Polina's mother
2004	Moscow Saga	Mayka's mother
2004	author=Smorodinskaya	title=Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZHCAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA60	date=28 October 2013	publisher=Routledge	isbn=978-1-136-78786-7	pages=60}}	Zinaida Antonovna
2001	Come Look at Me	Tatyana
2000	author=David MacFadyen	title=The Sad Comedy of El_dar Riazanov: An Introduction to Russia's Most Popular Filmmaker	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vChqpSfEV9UC&pg=PA278	year=2003	publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP	isbn=978-0-7735-2636-5	pages=278}}	author=Anna M. Lawton	title=Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUuNQRA9mRsC&pg=PA251	year=2004	publisher=New Academia Publishing, LLC	isbn=978-0-9744934-3-5	pages=251}}
1991	The Inner Circle	Directress
1990	Nikolai Vavilov (Николай Вавилов)	Lena
1988	author1=Michael Brashinsky	author2=Andrew Horton	title=Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAl3jHUVBpoC&pg=PA69	date=30 September 1994	publisher=Cambridge University Press	isbn=978-0-521-44475-0	pages=69}}	Yelena
1987	A Lonely Woman Looking for a Companion	Klavdia
1983	author=New York Media, LLC	title=New York Magazine	journal=Newyorkmetro.com	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0-UCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA175	date=22 October 1984	publisher=New York Media, LLC	pages=175	issn=0028-7369}}	She
1981	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Beryl Stapleton
1979	September Vacation	Galina
1978	An Ordinary Miracle	Wizard's wife
1977	author=Jane Sloan	title=Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7excPrfowYC&pg=PA277	date=26 March 2007	publisher=Scarecrow Press	isbn=978-1-4616-7082-7	pages=277}}	Yevgeniya Mihaylovna
1975	The Captivating Star of Happiness	Trubetskaya
1974	A Lover's Romance	Lyuda
1971	Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня)	author=Robert Blumenfeld	title=Tools and Techniques for Character Interpretation: A Handbook of Psychology for Actors, Writers, and Directors	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwK5SmQImBoC&pg=PA280	year=2006	publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation	isbn=978-0-87910-326-2	pages=280}}
1969	A Nest of Gentry	Liza

References

Bert Cardullo. (9 August 2012). "European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema". Scarecrow Press.
Nicholas Galichenko. (6 December 2013). "Glasnost—Soviet Cinema Responds". University of Texas Press.
(1988). "Soviet Film". Sovexportfilm.
John Freedman. (28 June 2005). "Moscow Performances II: The 1996-1997 Season". Routledge.
Peter Rollberg. (7 November 2008). "Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema". Scarecrow Press.
Smorodinskaya. (28 October 2013). "Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian". Routledge.
David MacFadyen. (2003). "The Sad Comedy of El_dar Riazanov: An Introduction to Russia's Most Popular Filmmaker". McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP.
Anna M. Lawton. (2004). "Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts". New Academia Publishing, LLC.
Jeff Milne. (20 July 2009). "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: The Complete Guide to the Movie Trivia Game". Jeff Milne.
[http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/80746/ Николай Вавилов (мини-сериал)]
(30 September 1994). "Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost". Cambridge University Press.
New York Media, LLC. (22 October 1984). "New York Magazine". New York Media, LLC.
Jane Sloan. (26 March 2007). "Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women". Scarecrow Press.
Birgit Beumers. (2011). "Directory of World Cinema: Russia". Intellect Books.
Robert Blumenfeld. (2006). "Tools and Techniques for Character Interpretation: A Handbook of Psychology for Actors, Writers, and Directors". Hal Leonard Corporation.
(1973). "Focus on Film". Tantivy Press.

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