Irina Kupchenko

Irina Kupchenko
Irina Kupchenko in 2017
Born
Irina Petrovna Kupchenko

(1948-03-01) March 1, 1948 (age 76)
NationalityRussian
OccupationActress
Years active1969–present

Irina Petrovna Kupchenko (Russian: Ирина Петровна Купченко; 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.[1] 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.[2][3]

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.[4]

  1. ^ Bert Cardullo (9 August 2012). European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-8108-8527-1.
  2. ^ Nicholas Galichenko (6 December 2013). Glasnost—Soviet Cinema Responds. University of Texas Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-292-73439-5.
  3. ^ Soviet Film. Sovexportfilm. 1988.
  4. ^ John Freedman (28 June 2005). Moscow Performances II: The 1996-1997 Season. Routledge. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-135-29325-3.