Irina Kupchenko
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. 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.