Dapkunayte, Ingeborg

Youth

Born on January 20, 1963 in Vilnius .

The father of actress Petras-Edmundas Dapkunas was a diplomat , and the mother of Ingeborg Dapkunyane (before marriage, Sabalite) was a meteorologist . Parents worked for a long time in Moscow , and her daughter came to them for the holidays. In Vilnius, little Ingeborg remained in the care of her grandparents, as well as aunts and uncles (musicians in the orchestra), who did everything so that she did not feel the long absence of parents. The love of art, according to the actress herself, was instilled in her by her grandmother, who had worked all her life in the opera and ballet theater. ^[6]

At the age of four, Ingeborg, through the patronage of her grandmother Genovait Sabalene, administrator of the Vilnius Opera and Ballet Theater , first appeared on stage as the son of Madame Butterfly staged by Puccini's opera Chio-Chio-san . After the “opera debut”, dramatic art at first seemed to a little girl not so interesting, due to the lack of dancing, songs and music. In addition, childhood and adolescence were rather focused on a sports career: Ingeborg was engaged in figure skating and basketball, a national sport, not without success. Consisted in the Komsomol .

On the mountain Tauras , not far from the house where Ingeborg lived, there was the Palace of Trade Unions , in which there was a theater studio, where Ingeborg worked for 3 years.

Early career

Immediately after school, Ingeborg enters the Lithuanian Conservatory (faculty of choral and theatrical art, the course of Jonas Vaitkus ). She was also going to enter the Institute of Foreign Languages, but the exams were a month earlier at the conservatory.

After graduating from the Conservatory in 1985, she began working as an actress at the Kaunas Drama Theater , and later at the Youth Theater in Vilnius under the direction of Eymuntas Nakrošius . The film debut of the actress took place in 1984 in the film “ My Little Wife ” by Raimundas Banionis .

In 1991, she began working at the London Theater in the performance The Error of Speech with John Malkovich (dir. Simon Stokes).

Personal Life

• First husband - Arunas Sakalauskas ^[7] , actor and TV host
• The second husband is Simon Stokes, a British theater director ^[7] . Divorced in 2009.
• The third husband ^[8] is Dmitry Yampolsky ^[9] .

In the documentary of the First Channel, Ingeborg Dapkunayte first showed her son Alex (born 2017). ^[ten]

Theater Works

Kaunas Drama Theater, Vilnius

Director Jonas Vaichkus

• "The Adventure of the Makakonka", the role of the Macaque mom
• "Lessons of literature" (based on "The Little Prince ", Exupery )
• "Antigone", the role of Antigone
• "Buried child", Shelly

Vilnius Youth Theater, Vilnius

Director Eymuntas Nykrosius

• "Hunger"
• "The Seagull", the role of Nina
• "Nose", different roles

Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago

• “Speech Error” (played with John Malkovich , director Dusty Hugh)

Sheftesberry Theater, London

• "Speech Error"
• "Libra", as the director was John Malkovich

Hampstead Theater, London

• “After Darwin,” directed by Lindsay Posher
• "Moonlight", the role of Serena

Theater "Old Viс", London

• Cloaca, directed by Kevin Spacey

Theater Ronacher, Vienna

• Variations of Giacomo, directed by M. Sturminger; played with J. Malkovich.

As part of a world tour, the performance was played for almost three years on the best stages of the world, including in Germany, Russia, Austria, Australia, France, Ecuador, Spain and others.

Ambassador Theater, London

• Vagina Monologues, directed by Yves Ensler

Theater "Practice" , Moscow

• “Vera Pavlova. Poems."

Theater of Nations

• Jeanne, dir. Ilya Rotenberg
• Idiot, dir. Maxim Didenko
• Circus, dir. Maxim Didenko

• Iranian Conference, dir. Viktor Ryzhakov

Work on television

In 2005, Ingeborg Dapkunayte was the leading Russian version of the reality show “ Big Brother ” on TNT . For 95 days, Ingeborg and the audience watched the lives of the participants, and on Friday the actress was on the air, during which the fate of one of them was decided.

In 2006 she became a participant of the project “Stars on Ice” , she skated together with Alexander Zhulin .

In the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, which took place in Russia , announced the points that the participants of the competition received by means of a TV viewer’s vote.

Was a guest of the programs “ ProjectorParisHilton ”, “ Looking to night ”, “ Evening Urgant ”, “ Cinema in details ”, “ Relish ”, etc.

He is the curator of the acting faculty of the Moscow School of Cinema.

• 1989 - Honored Artist of the Lithuanian SSR (the last holder of the title)
• 1992 - Golden Aries - the best actress of the year, the film " Cynics "
• 1994 - Geneva International Film Festival - special jury prize “Star of Tomorrow”, film “Moscow Nights”
• 1994 - Nick Award for Best Actress, film "Moscow Nights"
• 2005 - Astra - nomination "Style in Cinema"
• 2014 - the award named after Oleg Yankovsky ^[11]
• 2019 - Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation ( February 27, 2019 ) - for merits in the development of culture and art, many years of fruitful activity ^[12]

• Programs "Cinefondsion" Cannes Film Festival 2003.
• 55th International Berlin Film Festival (2005)
• 2005 International Film Festival Mar del Plata
• 67th Venice Film Festival (2010)

Ingeborg Dapkunayte is the co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Moscow charity foundation for helping hospice Vera.

Producer of the play "Taken" with the participation of deaf-blind people, which is part of a joint project of the Union Foundation and the Theater of Nations.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends Foundation.

• Ingeborg Dapkunayte on the site of the project Chapaev
• Interview Ingeborgi Dupkunayte magazine Rolling Stone Russia
• Ingeborg Dapkunayte: Interview magazine Sex And he City
• Interview Ingeborgi Dapkunayte on the radio "Echo of Moscow"
• Blog Ingeborg Dapkunayte snob.ru
• Cult of personality. Leonid Velehov talks with Ingeborga Dapkunayte (Neopr.) . Radio Liberty (12/06/2014).