Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, 2024
Born	(1963-01-20) 20 January 1963 (age 62) Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Lithuania United Kingdom
Education	Lithuanian State Conservatory
Occupation	Actress television presenter
Years active	1983–present
Height	166 cm (65 in)
Spouse(s)	Arūnas Sakalauskas (divorced) Simon Stokes ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 2009)​ Dmitry Yampolsky ​ ​ (m. 2013; div. 2018)​
Children	1
Parent(s)	Petras Edmundas Dapkūnas (father)
Awards	Golden Aries Award (1992) Nika Award (1995)

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (born 20 January 1963) is а Lithuanian actress and television presenter. Known for both her screen and stage performances, she has gained recognition for featuring in films such as Burnt by the Sun (1994) and Katya Ismailova (1994), which won her the Nika Award for Best Actress. Dapkūnaitė was also credited in Mission: Impossible (1996), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Emily Young's debut Kiss of Life (2003), and Okkupert (2015–2019).

Dapkūnaitė performed in theaters in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, United States, and Russia, including Steppenwolf Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, The Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre, Theatre of Nations, and more. She has a long-lasting professional partnership with John Malkovich, they worked together on numerous theatrical productions.

Early life

Dapkūnaitė was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her father was a diplomat and her mother was a meteorologist. For many years her parents worked in Moscow, and she saw them only on holidays. She was cared for by her grandparents and an uncle and aunt, musicians in a theatre orchestra, during her parents' long absences.

At the age of four, she first appeared on the stage in the Puccini opera Madam Butterfly, watched by her grandmother, the administrator of the Vilnius opera theatre. After her opera debut, she at first seemed to have little interest in the dramatic arts, dance, singing, or music. For her childhood and youth, it seemed she might pursue a career in sports; she figure-skated and played basketball, popular in Lithuania. She graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre under Jonas Vaitkus in 1985 and joined the Kaunas State Drama Theatre.

Career

Stage

After the Conservatory, Dapkūnaitė joined Kaunas State Drama Theatre. In two years, she had played seven leading roles in the productions by her master, Jonas Vaitkus. She portrayed Antigone in the production of Sophocles' play, played Shelly in the Buried Child, and several Shakespearean roles. Later, she was invited to the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. She also worked in the Vilnius State Theatre under Eimuntas Nekrošius and performed in The Seagull and The Nose.

In 1992, she performed together with John Malkovich in the production of Slip of the Tongue at Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago) and then at Shaftesbury Theatre (London), directed by Simon Stokes. This role resulted in many years of friendship and collaboration with Malkovich, while Stokes soon became Dapkūnaitė's (second) husband. Dapkunaite played in Malkovich's Steppenwolf production Libra, acted alongside him in The Giacomo Variations in Ronacher (Vienna) and Sydney Opera, and in Timofei Kulyabin's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields in Dailes Theatre (Riga).

Dapkūnaitė also worked in other theaters in the UK, U.S.,, and Europe. ..... In Moscow, she played Vera Pavlova. Poems in the Practice Theatre. ..... She also had a lead play in Touchables (Russian: Прикасаемые), the first-ever theatrical production with deaf-blind actors.

Screen

Lithuania

Dapkūnaitė debuted on screen in 1984 (as a fourth-grade student) as Aukse in Raimundas Banionis's first feature film Mano mazyte žmona (English: My Little Wife. In 1986, she performed together with Igor Kostolevsky in Isaak Fridbergas's Nakties paklydeliai (English: Night Whispers). The same year, she played in Chameleono zaidimai (English: Chameleon Game, written and directed by Arūnas Žebriūnas. In 1987, she starred in the television film Elektroninė senelė [lt] (English: Electronic Grandmother) based on Ray Bradbury's short story I Sing the Body Electric. and acted in the war drama Savaitgalis pragare (English: Weekend in Hell).

Russia

..... In 1991, she starred in Dmitry Meskhiev's Cynics, in which she received the 1992 Golden Aries Actress of the Year award. In 1994, the leading role in Valery Todorovsky's 1994 drama film Katya Ismailova won Dapkūnaitė the Nika Award for Best Actress. The same year, Dapkūnaitė portrayed Marussia in Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun, which received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

..... Her leading roles included Orange Juice by Andrey Proshkin and Winter Will not Come by Ilia Demichev. On TV, she appeared as Morpheya in the Sky Court (2011), Mrs Hudson in the adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (2012), Alexandra Feodorovna in the Grigoriy R mini-series (2014), and Maria Feodorovna in Alexei Uchitel's 2017 Matilda.

On TV, Dapkūnaitė was the co-host of the Russian edition of the Big Brother reality show (2005) and the spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 finals in Moscow. She also took part in the Stars on Ice (2006) and The new songs about the most important things (2007) TV shows. She also performed in the music video for the Bi-2 alternative rock track My Rock 'n Roll.

Other countries

In the 1990s, the success of the Burnt by the Sun sparked interest in Dapkūnaitė among filmmakers in the West. She was invited to play the role of IMF (Impossible Missions Force) agent Hannah Williams in Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible and portrayed the wife of Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt) in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Seven Years in Tibet (1997). In 2003, Dapkūnaitė portrayed Helen in Emily Young's debut feature film Kiss of Life , and in 2007, she played the mother of Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising, directed by Peter Webber. She also acted together with Emir Kusturica in the espionage thriller L'affaire Farewell (2009) by Christian Carion and played in Alexis Lloyd's romantic comedy 30 Beats (2012).

Dapkūnaitė's roles on TV included Alexandra Feodorovna in the TV mini-series The Lost Prince (2003); Jasmina Blekic in Series 6 of Prime Suspect (2003); nurse Katya Bredova in Season 1 of the medical drama series Bodies (2004); and Baiba Liepa in Wallander, episodes "The Dogs of Riga" and "A Lesson in Love".

Dapkūnaite played top Russian diplomat Irina Sidorova, one of the key roles in the Norwegian series Okkupert (English: Occupied), first aired in 2015. In the 2018 Russian-Estonian remake of the 2011 Swedish/Danish crime drama The Bridge she played the lead role of Estonian detective Inga Veerma.

Awards

• The Honored Artist of the Lithuanian SSR title (was the last person to receive that honor)
• The 1992 Golden Aries Actress of the Year (Cynics)
• The 1995 Nika Award for Best Actress (Katya Ismailova)
• The 2014 Oleg Yankovsky Creative Discovery award (Zhanna, Theatre of Nations)

Other roles

Dapkūnaitė served on the jury of the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001), the 56th Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation program (2003), the 55th Berlin International Film Festival (2005), the 20th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2005), the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival (2009), and the 67th Venice Film Festival (2010).

Dapkūnaitė was the Longines Ambassador of Elegance (since 2005) and L'Oréal Ambassador of Beauty (since 2014).

Dapkūnaitė was the head of the Cinemotion acting school, and curated the acting department of the Moscow Film School.

Personal life

Dapkūnaitė first married a fellow Lithuanian State Conservatory student, a Lithuanian actor, Arūnas Sakalauskas. Her second husband was British artistic director Simon Stokes, with whom she worked on A Slip of the Tongue.

From 2013 to 2018, Dapkūnaitė was married to Russian lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Dmitry Yampolsky. They have a son.

At different points of her life she lived in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Belgium. In February 2022, she denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine and left Russia.

She holds Lithuanian and British citizenship.

Philanthropy

For years, Dapkūnaitė had been the chairperson of the board of trustees of the Hospice Charity Foundation Vera and a member of the board of trustees of the Friends Foundation. Since 2015, she had produced a Touchables (Russian: Прикасаемые) theatrical project in the Theatre of Nations, which aims to integrate deafblind people into the acting community.

Filmography

See also

In Spanish: Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė para niños