Ingeborga Dapkunaite is one of the most popular actresses of our time, who managed to conquer not only Russian viewers, but also the whole world with her talent. She starred in more than 70 films. Almost every project with her participation became resonant, but the public does not know much about Ingeborga herself. And this is not surprising: the actress is happy to talk about roles in film and theater, charity, but about herself and her personal life prefers not to talk. Who is she, this amazing woman with incredible charm and inimitable smile?
Childhood and youth of the future celebrity
Ingeborga is a Lithuanian by nationality. She was born on January 20, 1963 in Vilnius. Her parents worked in Moscow: her father - on the diplomatic line, her mother - in the meteorological service. Ingeborga saw them very rarely, most of the time she spent under the care of her grandmother and aunt and uncle. It was they who instilled in the girl a love of art from early childhood.
The grandmother of the future celebrity was an administrator in the local opera and ballet theater. She often took her granddaughter with her to work, dreaming of someday seeing her on stage. Once at her request, a 4-year-old girl was taken to the role of the young son of Madame Butterfly in the eponymous opera. Then to be an artist Ingeborga did not like it, because she did not have to sing or dance.
But sports - figure skating, swimming, basketball - the girl was engaged with pleasure, and even achieved good success in it. Later, yielding to the insistence of her grandmother, she began to study at the theater studio and music school. Over time, the passion for art took over, and Ingeborga seriously thought about a career as an actress.
After receiving a certificate, the girl applied to the Institute of Foreign Languages and the Lithuanian Conservatory. Entrance exams to the music university began earlier. Ingeborga easily entered there, and the choice in favor of art was made.
The creative path of Ingeborga Dapkunaite
After graduation in 1985, the artist was taken to work in the Kaunas Drama Theater. Less than two years in her creative piggy bank was seven major roles. A little later, the actress moved to the Youth Theater of Vilnius.
In 1991, she was invited to London, offering to try for the lead role in the play by Dustin Hughes "Speech Error". Casting Dapkunaite successfully passed. Her partner on the stage became a Hollywood actor John Malkovich. With this production, the artist almost a year traveled to different countries, and after the end of the season continued to play on the scaffolding of London theaters.
This period of life has become very significant for the entire creative biography of the actress. In her record list appeared such performances as:
- "Giacomo's Variations";
- "The Vagina Monologues";
- "Cloaca."
- "Moonlight."
Dapkunaite did not forget about the Russian theater scene. Among the productions with her participation - "Jeanne", "Idiot", "Circus".
In the movie Ingeborga debuted in 1984. It was a small role of a student Inga in the dramatic tape "My Little Wife". A year later, she starred in the drama "Night Whispers". However, all-Union fame Ingeborga Dapkunaite received after the release of the legendary picture of Peter Todorovsky "Interdevochka". The image of a prostitute Kisuli, created by a young actress, was incredibly bright.
No less memorable was the role of Dapkunaite in Dmitry Meskhiev's tragicomedy "Cynics". It was for her actress received her first movie award - "Golden Ram". She was noticed, she began to talk about her at the top of her voice, began to be invited to one project after another. The schedule of filming the actress was incredibly dense, she had to constantly fly from Moscow to London and back. In 1993, Dapkunaite debuted in Hollywood - starred in the series "Alaska Kid".
At the same period on the screens came out the famous drama Nikita Mikhalkov "Tired of the Sun". Ingeborga played in it one of the main roles, "taking away" it from Elena Yakovleva. Rumor has it that Mikhalkov was simply blown away by the smile of the Lithuanian actress and immediately approved her candidacy. Husband heroine Dapkunaite - Marusi - the maestro played himself.
The picture was simply doomed to success. The film received a well-deserved "Oscar", and Ingeborga - the proposal to star in the action movie "Mission Impossible". Her partner was Tom Cruise.
Three years later, the adventure drama "Seven Years in Tibet" was released, where Ingeborga starred with Brad Pitt.
Since then, the filmography of Dapkunaite, who received the status of a star of the world, began to be replenished with enviable consistency. She can not be called an actress of one role, although Russian directors mostly prefer to see her as a foreigner. All her characters turn out to be absolutely different, and this conquers the fans of the artist even more.
Personal life
The personal life of the actress is also quite intense. Her first husband was Arunas Sakalauskas, a famous Lithuanian actor and TV host of popular programs. They met as students, the wedding was played after the guy returned from the army. The story of their love ended in 1991, when Ingeborga went abroad.
The new chosen one of the actress was the director Simon Stokes. The couple lived together for a short time, all the details of the relationship with her husband Ingeborga carefully concealed. At the end of 2009, the star union broke up. The couple had no children.
In 2013, the 50-year-old star secretly married 36-year-old entrepreneur Dmitry Yampolsky. Four years later, the couple had a son Alex. The age of the actress at that time was far from young, so the birth of the baby caused a lot of talk about a surrogate mother or IVF procedure. Shortly after that, Dapkunaite divorced again.
In 2019, in the media there was information about Ingeborga's new relationship with a 38-year-old journalist and director of the Mobile Art Theater Mikhail Zygar. The actress does not give any comments on this topic.
Currently Ingeborga Dapkunaite continues to act in movies. In addition, she often becomes a participant in various television projects, is engaged in charity and pedagogical activities, devotes a lot of time to the upbringing of her son. All details about her creative plans can be found in the catalog of artists on the website kontramarka.de.
Filmography
1989 - "Intergirl"
1994 - "Moscow Evenings", "Weary of the Sun".
1996 - "Mission Impossible"
1997 - "Seven Years in Tibet".
1999 - "Sunburn"
2000 - "Moscow"
2002 - Blood Loneliness
2003 - "Kiss of Life", "Chic"
2004 - "Winter Heat", "Night Salesman".
2006 - "On Stage"
2007 - "Hannibal: The Ascent".
2008 - "Morphine"
2009 - "The Merrymakers"
2010 - "Cadence"
2011 - "Heavenly Court"
2017 - "The Bridge"
2018 - "Red Sparrow"
2020 - "The Fairy"
