Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
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.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.[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).[4][9][6][19][20] 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.[21] 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.[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.[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.[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).[44][45][46] Dapkūnaite played top Russian diplomat Irina Sidorova, one of the key roles in the Norwegian series Okkupert (English: Occupied), first aired in 2015.