Dapkunayt biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Oleg Yankovsky performance “Zhanna”, gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation February, co -chair of the Board of Trustees of the Hospice Foundation “Vera”, curator of the acting faculty in the Moscow School of Cinema. In the photo: Ingeborg Dapkunayat a number of critics and colleagues consider it one of the strongest actresses of our time.

In particular, the Oscar -winning Helen Mirren noted that the work of Lithuania in the British series “The main suspect” struck her “accuracy, nerve and depth”. And this is far from an exhaustive list of its achievements. Childhood and youth “The Sun Sun Actress of the Russian Theater and Cinema,” as the media was often called, was born on January 20 in the capital of Lithuania.

Her parents at that time were students. Father Pyatra-Edmundas Dapkunas subsequently became a diplomat and possessed a number of personal qualities necessary in this profession-he was "a smartest person, knew languages, wrote books, translated." Mom, her namesake, Ingeborg in the girlhood of Sabalit also had a not quite ordinary profession - was a meteorologist. Ingeborg Dapkunaite in childhood, by the nature of the head of the family, the spouses were constantly on the road.

Soon after the birth of their daughter, they moved to Moscow, leaving her to educate her grandfather and grandmother and uncle with aunt. Relatives took turns with pleasure and pampered the baby, especially her beloved granny genet, so the girl did not suffer at all due to the lack of parents. Relatives and ballet were working in the theater: Aunt played in a symphony orchestra at the harp, uncle on a flute, and her grandmother sang in her youth, eventually became the head of the troupe.

Later, Ingeborg’s younger sister was born, who, in adulthood, moved with her husband and children to Paris. Relatives often took a little Ingus with them to work, from childhood introducing to art. Through the efforts of the aunt, she is “not an absolute dumbass in music”, he knows, for example, how to play Glissando, loves Verdi and Puccini. And when the Italian diva of Virginia Dyani arrived in Vilnius to speak with Virgilius Noreyko in Chio-Chio-san, the grandmother offered a 4-year-old granddaughter for the role of her son Butterfly.

Dapkunaite still remembers the first applause in his life. After the performance, she left the official entrance with a bouquet of roses and the “Vanka-Vstanka”, the devil donated to her, and the fans who were waiting for the prima saw the girl and unexpectedly slammed. The theatrical debut of Ingeborg Dapkunayat then the young artist appeared more than once on the stage: she played chicken and monkey in the “Doctor Aibolite”, the painter fan in “Aida”, the testimony in “Faust”, the little Esmerald in the “Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God”, an angel in the “demon”.

She danced and sang “Gori, Gori Clearly, so that it doesn’t go out” in “Eugene Onegin” in the company of the sons of the senior conductor of the orchestra Rimas Genyushas, ​​later famous musicians. At the age of 7, Ingeborg first visited Moscow, which then seemed huge, gray and uncomfortable, but later became her native. She studied in the special school of the folk poet of Salome Neris with the study of English from the first grade, and from the second - Russian.

She read a lot and with pleasure, in the house they had a wonderful library. Despite the performances before the big audience, by the nature of the girl remained modest and shy. In school years, Inga was engaged in figure skating, swimming, basketball and at the same time carefully studied so as not to upset her grandmother. When she was in the 4th grade, her parents were transferred to Sri Lanka and allowed her to take her for a year with her.

So she got the opportunity not only to enjoy exotic fruits, but also to improve her English. Ingeborg Dapkunaite in her youth until 16 years old, the girl loved only an opera theater and ballet. The drama theater, where they “spoke with terrible voices”, seemed fake, artificial to her. But once she saw on the dramatic stage in the performance of Jonas Waitkus “amazingly real” people.

Their game was so impressed by Ingeborg that she changed her opinion and signed up for a drama circle at the youth theater, led by the outstanding Lithuanian director Eimuntas Nyakroshus. This circumstance influenced her choice of profession. Ingeborg Dapkunayt on Tedx received a certificate, she submitted documents not only to the Institute of Foreign Languages, as always planned, studying in a special school, but also at the Lithuanian Conservatory, to the Faculty of Church and Theater Arts.

And, as often happens, in her life everything was decided by a non -built plan, but a case. In the conservatory, entrance exams began earlier than at the institute. Inga was preparing to enter with three friends on a drama circle on Mount Torres, lying in a clover. There, in between, she took up the search for four -leafy plants, bringing good luck by belief. And I found four four -leafers, and, of course, all four friends acted.

The master and teacher of the actress became Jonas Whitcus. The development of a career in his student years, the future demanded artist was direct and very cheerful, “killing” all her radiant smile.On stage, she changed beyond recognition, was restrained, seductive, and independent, and relaxed, showing incredible sketches. Ingeborg Dapkunaite in his youth so, at the diploma play “Literature Lessons” for “Little Prince”, Inga played a village student, a stupid and ugly dual, but a large fan of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

According to the plot, surprisingly the teacher, she began to inspire the writer's biography with inspiration. At the same time, the graduate, who grew up among the intelligent people, suddenly spoke to herself with a dialect, heard in early childhood on a farm where her father's parents lived. According to the actress, at that moment she "woke up by the subconscious." When she finished the monologue, the hall exploded with applause.

Her talent of reincarnation did not go unnoticed. At the end of study in the year, the artist was invited to one of the leading theatrical groups of Lithuania - to the Kaunas drama theater. In just a year and a half, she turned out to be seven main roles on her account. The avant -garde performances of the artistic director of the Nyakoshus and the excellent game of the actors then shocked not only local theateraries, but also Moscow and Western during the tour of the theater.

In the year, the actress was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic. Ingeborg Dapkunaite and Gediminas Storpirshtis for the year theatrical work abroad in the year in the year the fate of Ingeborg has changed dramatically. She was invited to London to casting for the main role in the ambiguous performance of Dustin Hughes “Class” or “Speech Error”, where the issue of the concept of “dissident” was investigated by the state of the mind of a person or just a fighter with a system?

Ingeborg did not immediately decide to accept this proposal, but the nyakroshus himself allowed her doubts. The master said: "Go, start a new life." She listened to his opinion, went to the foggy Albion and successfully passed tests. Her partner on the stage was the outstanding Hollywood actor John Malkovich. They worked very intensively and soon launched their performance at the STEPPENWOLF Chicago Theater.

A sea of ​​revelations. Ingeborg Dapkunaite at the end of the season in the United States British director Simon Stouks, took Dapkunaite with herself, and she began to play on the stage of London theaters. In particular, in the famous Old Vic, she appeared in the role of Russian Putan in the play “Cloka” based on the play of the Dutch writer Maria Gus, who collected unchanged full house for several months in a row.

Ingeborg Dapkunaite and Simon Stouks then, together with Malkovich, the actress went to different countries for more than three years, from Ecuador to Australia, with the musical and dramatic production of “Dzhakomo Variation”.

The project was created on the basis of the memoirs of Casanova “History of my life” and scenes from operas of Mozart. Inga acted as a young woman who was trying to conquer with his philosophical reasoning and memories of numerous love affairs, reminiscent of opera plots, an aging adventurer-Lovelas performed by Malkovich. She was also busy in the play based on the play “Moonlight”, written by Harold Pinter.

Then, on the scenes of Chicago, Manchester, and London, Dapkunaite appeared in the cult performance of Vagina's monologues based on the play of the American writer Yves Ensler, where she brought to the audience the texts about female sexuality, pronouncing monologues with deep philosophical subtext and without banal vulgarity. In, after the powerful performance of the title role in the play "Zhanna" Yaroslava Pulinovich, shown on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater of the Northern Capital and the Moscow Theater of Nations, the actress was awarded the award of Oleg Yankovsky.

She appeared in the image of a middle -aged and lonely owner of the Yvonyanitan Prodemagi network, whose lover leaves for a young pregnant girlfriend. Ingeborg Dapkunaite in the production of Zhanna in the same year Ingeborg and Evgeny Mironov participated in the presentation of the sociocultural project to integrate deaf -blind people into the creative environment. Within its framework in March in the Theater of Nations, she played with Yegor Beroev and four deaf -blind actors in Ruslan Malikov’s play “Touching”.

The actress in the inclusive performance “Trinned” at the end took place the premiere of the play “Idiot”, where director Maxim Didenko presented a non -standard reading of Dostoevsky’s novel, putting him in the clowning genre, and Ingeborg appeared as Prince Myshkin. A year later, in the musical of the same director “Circus”, created according to the Soviet film of the same name by Alexandrov, she played the star of the American Circus Marion Dixon, performed various tricks on the trapezoids under the ceiling, flew and sang.

In the film, this role was played by the unique love of Orlova. Photo from the play “Idiot” Role in the cinema in the cinema, the Baltic beauty debuted in the year in a small role of Inga student in a dramatic tape in Lithuanian “My little wife” director Raimundas Banunis, son of Donatas Banonis. The first role of Ingeborg Dapkunaite in the movie “My Little Wife”, a year later she was entrusted with the first serious role in the drama of Isaac Friedberg “Night whispering”, where her partner was Igor Kostolevsky.But she gained all -Union fame, after the screens of the sensational “interdova” by Peter Todorovsky.

Litovka brilliantly played the role of a representative of the oldest profession of Kisuli, colleagues of the craft of the key heroine Tatyana Elena Yakovleva. Dapkunatya reincarnated to Olga, an independent, intelligent and slightly causing daughter of emigrants. Her heroine, together with her husband Vladimir Andrei Ilyin, is trying to resist the new reality with the help of cynicism.

For her role, she received her first film tank - “Golden Aries”. The frame from the film “Cynics” next year the actress participated in the filming of the British television series “Good Guys”, a year later she worked on the television movie “Fatal Fate: Mrs. Li Harvi Oswald” and the series “Alaska Kid”. And in she played the main role of Katya in the drama of the Todorovsky Jr. "Moscow Regions", put up with Nikolai Leskov "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district." Her partner in the filming was Vladimir Mashkov.

For this complex role of a woman who committed a murder due to addiction, Inga was awarded the Russian Prize “Nika” and a special prize of the jury “Tomorrow Star” at the MKF in Geneva. According to the actress, she was lucky enough to get into the cast to a large extent thanks to Oleg Menshikov, who accidentally met her in London. And the former groom of her heroine embodied Menshikov on the screen.

The frame from the film “Tired of the Sun” to the ceremony of presenting the film by the Award of the American Academy Dapkunaite decided not to go, being busy in a small role in the Hollywood tape “Mission of Impossible”. Upon learning of this, members of the film crew found her act, to put it mildly, “not the smartest” by her own admission. Tom Cruise, who played the main role in the militant, even said that he would give her his plane to fly into Cannes.

Ingeborg Dapkunaita in the “Mission Impossible” developing his career in the West, in Inga appeared as the wife of Heinrich Brad Pitt in the adventure drama “Seven years in Tibet”, created on the basis of the same name by the Austrian traveler, ski ski, Ingeborg Dapkunayta and Brad Pitt “Seven Years in Tibet” already in the actress, already in the actress A world-wide star starred in the role of young Irish Caroline, who spent summer with friends in the USA, in the American-Irlandic comedy and dramatic film "Sunny Burn".

Then she played the role of Shona in the British television movie "Sex and Death." Ingeborg Dapkunaite in the year in Ingeborg replenished her filmography by a Russian project - played a key role in Masha in the drama of Alexander Zeldovich, which became an important event in domestic cinema and included in the ICF’s official program in Venice. In the same year, she complemented the cast of the criminal comedian-dramatic series “Rostov-Papa”, which included Natalia Gundarev, Boris Shcherbakov, Dmitry Bozin, Sergey Nikonenko and other popular artists.

On the set of the film “Moscow”, the picture of Alexei Balabanov “War”, whose actions unfolded during the Second Chechen War, was released in the screens. Inga played the role of Margaret, the bride of the English actor John Ian Kelly. They were captured by the militants and sat in a pit with the Russian sergeant Ermakov Alexei Chadov and Captain Medvedev Sergey Bodrov -Ml.