Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image 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

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė was born in Vilnius, then in the Lithuanian SSR of the Soviet Union, on 20 January 1963. Her father, Petras Edmundas Dapkūnas, was a diplomat, while her mother, Ingeborga Dapkūnienė (Sabalytė), was a meteorologist. Because of work, her parents spent most of their time abroad (in particular, in Moscow), while Ingeborga remained in Vilnius. She was cared for by her grandmother Genovaitė Sabliene, the manager of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, and her aunt and uncle, who held positions at the symphony orchestra.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Dapkūnaitė made her theatrical debut at the age of four as Dolore in the Puccini opera Madama Butterfly. Later, she also played in Faust, The Demon, and The Queen of Spades.[7] Dapkūnaitė attended theatrical school at the local House of Unions and practiced sports, such as figure skating and basketball (quite popular in Lithuania by that time). After school, she enrolled in the Department of Theater Arts of the Lithuanian State Conservatory and studied under Jonas Vaitkus.[4][2][1][6][8][9][10][11]

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.[9] She portrayed Antigone in the production of Sophocles' play,[12] played Shelly in the Buried Child, and several Shakespearean roles.[13] Later, she was invited to the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre.[1] She also worked in the Vilnius State Theatre under Eimuntas Nekrošius and performed in The Seagull and The Nose.[2][9][6]

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.[14][4][15] Dapkunaite played in Malkovich's Steppenwolf production Libra, acted alongside him in The Giacomo Variations in Ronacher (Vienna) and Sydney Opera,[5] and in Timofei Kulyabin's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields in Dailes Theatre (Riga).[16][14]

Dapkūnaitė also worked in other theaters in the UK, U.S.,, and Europe. In London, she appeared in Cloaca, directed by Kevin Spacey, at The Old Vic, in Moonlight, and in After Darwin at the Hampstead Theatre, and in The Vagina Monologues at Ambassadors Theatre.[9][6][17][4][15] In Moscow, she played Vera Pavlova. Poems in the Practice Theatre. She also performed in the Theatre of Nations and had leading roles in Zhanna, The Idiot, Circus, and Ivan Vyrypaev's Iranian Conference.[18] She also had a lead play in Touchables (Template:Langx), the first-ever theatrical production with deaf-blind actors.[4][9][6][19][20]

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 (Template:Langx. In 1986, she performed together with Igor Kostolevsky in Isaak Fridbergas's Nakties paklydeliai (Template:Langx.[1][4] The same year, she played in Chameleono zaidimai (Template:Langx, written and directed by Arūnas Žebriūnas.[21] In 1987, she starred in the television film Template:Ill (Template:Langx) based on Ray Bradbury's short story I Sing the Body Electric.[13][2][1][10][8][9] and acted in the war drama Savaitgalis pragare (Template:Langx).[22][23]

Russia

Dapkūnaitė became widely popular in the Soviet Union after the role of the young prostitute Kisulya in Pyotr Todorovsky's 1989 drama Intergirl. 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.[9][24] 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.[9][25][26][27]

Her other roles in the Soviet and Russian movies included Vija Beinerte's Stecheniye obstoyatel'stv (1988), Igor Talankin's Osen, Chertanovo... (1989),[8][1][2] Alexei Balabanov's Morphine (film) (2008), Aleksandr Melnik's Terra Nova (2008), Jamie Bradshaw's and Alexander Dulerayn's Branded.[28] Her leading roles included Orange Juice by Andrey Proshkin[29] and Winter Will not Come by Ilia Demichev.[30] On TV, she appeared as Morpheya in the Sky Court (2011), Mrs Hudson in the adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (2012),[31] Alexandra Feodorovna in the Grigoriy R mini-series (2014),[32] and Maria Feodorovna in Alexei Uchitel's 2017 Matilda.[33]

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.[1][2][9][4] She also performed in the music video for the Bi-2 alternative rock track My Rock 'n Roll.[8]

Other countries

In the 1990s, the success of the Burnt by the Sun sparked interest in Dapkūnaitė among filmmakers in the West.[34][35] She was invited to play the role of IMF (Impossible Missions Force) agent Hannah Williams in Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible[26] and portrayed the wife of Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt) in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Seven Years in Tibet (1997).[36][11][1] In 2003, Dapkūnaitė portrayed Helen in Emily Young's debut feature film Kiss of Life ,[37] and in 2007, she played the mother of Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising, directed by Peter Webber.[38] She also acted together with Emir Kusturica in the espionage thriller L'affaire Farewell (2009) by Christian Carion[39] and played in Alexis Lloyd's romantic comedy 30 Beats (2012).[40]

Dapkūnaitė's roles on TV included Alexandra Feodorovna in the TV mini-series The Lost Prince (2003);[38] Jasmina Blekic in Series 6 of Prime Suspect (2003);[41][42] nurse Katya Bredova in Season 1 of the medical drama series Bodies (2004);[43] and Baiba Liepa in Wallander, episodes "The Dogs of Riga" and "A Lesson in Love".[44][45][46]

Dapkūnaite played top Russian diplomat Irina Sidorova, one of the key roles in the Norwegian series Okkupert (Template:Langx), first aired in 2015.[47][48][17] 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.[49][50][51]

Awards

Other roles

Dapkūnaitė served on the jury of the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001),[53] the 56th Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation program (2003),[54] the 55th Berlin International Film Festival (2005),[55] the 20th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2005),[56] the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival (2009), and the 67th Venice Film Festival (2010).[57]

Dapkūnaitė was the Longines Ambassador of Elegance (since 2005) and L'Oréal Ambassador of Beauty (since 2014).[58][59]

Dapkūnaitė was the head of the Cinemotion acting school, and curated the acting department of the Moscow Film School.[6][2]

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.[1][60]

From 2013 to 2018, Dapkūnaitė was married to Russian lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Dmitry Yampolsky. They have a son.[2][10][15][61][62]

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.[63][19][64]

She holds Lithuanian and British citizenship.[65]

Philanthropy

For years,[66][67] 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 (Template:Langx) theatrical project in the Theatre of Nations, which aims to integrate deafblind people into the acting community.[4][8][68][69][70]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1984 My Little Wife Aukse
1985 Zodiac TV
1985 Night Whispers Inga
1986 Game chameleon Veronica
1987 The mysterious heir Asya Tikhonova
The confluence of circumstances Veronica Bergs
The 13th Apostle Mariya
1988 Autumn, Chertanovo ... Mariya Zavarzina
Crossing Kama-Basia Zalevskaya
1989 Intergirl Kisulya
F minor Katya
1990 Nikolai Vavilov Natalia Karlovna Lemke Mini-series
1991 Cynics Olga
1992–1993 The Good Guys Sanda TV series
1993 Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Lubya TV
The Alaska Kid Salli TV series
1994 Katya Ismailova (russian title: Near Moscow Nights) Katya Ismailova
Burnt by the Sun Maroussia
1995 Thief Takers TV series
1996 On Dangerous Ground Asta TV
Mission: Impossible Hannah Williams
Letters from the East Marie / Mother
1997 Seven Years in Tibet Ingrid Harrer
1998 CI5: The New Professionals Elkie TV series
1999–2001 Big Bad World Natalia TV series
1999 Sunburn Carolyn Kramer
2000 Moscow Masha
Rostov-dad Elya TV series
Shadow of the Vampire Micheline
2002 War Margaret[71]
2002 Stereoblood Mariya
2003 The Lost Prince Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna TV
The Suit Asya
Kiss of Life Helen
Coming Up Olesya Muratseva TV series
Prime Suspect S6: The Last Witness Jasmina Blekic Mini-series
2004 25 Degrees in Winter Sonia
2004–2006 Bodies Katya Bredova TV series
2005 Graveyard Shift wife of the owner
2006 Silent Witness Dr. Caroline Anscombe TV series
2007 Hannibal Rising Mother Lecter
In Transit Vera
2008 Morphine Anna
Terra Nova Marta
2009 L'affaire Farewell Natasha
Jolly Fellows Margo
Volunteer Lena Mini-series
Katya: Military history Mariya Barsukova TV series
2010 Orange Juice Dasha
Cadenzas Liza
2011 Heavenly Court Morpheus Mini-series
2012 30 Beats The Call-Girl - Alice
Branded Guru's Associate Dubcek
Wallander – s.3.02, "The Dogs of Riga" Baiba Liepa TV series
Heavenly Court Morpheus Film
2013 Antalya
Sherlock Holmes Mrs. Hudson TV series
2014 Express "Moscow-Russia" conductor Anna
Gregory R. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna TV series
Heavenly Court. Continued Morpheus Mini-series
2015–2019 Occupied Irina Sidorova TV series
2015 Men's Life in Autumn
2016 Wallander – "A Lesson in Love" Baiba Liepa TV series
Artist Kills Self Clarissa Stearn
2017 Jeanne Jeanne
Matilda Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
2018–2020 The Bridge Inga Veermaa, Estonian detective TV series
2019 Union of Salvation Princess Belskaya
Dark like the Night. Karenina-2019 journalist short film
2022 Generation of Evil Rasa Kymantaite, the mayor

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