Irina Kupchenko | |
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 Irina Kupchenko in 2017 | |
| Born | Irina Petrovna Kupchenko March 1, 1948 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–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]
- ^ Bert Cardullo (9 August 2012). European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-8108-8527-1.
- ^ Nicholas Galichenko (6 December 2013). Glasnost—Soviet Cinema Responds. University of Texas Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-292-73439-5.
- ^ Soviet Film. Sovexportfilm. 1988.
- ^ John Freedman (28 June 2005). Moscow Performances II: The 1996-1997 Season. Routledge. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-135-29325-3.