Biography

Irina Vladimirovna Starshenbaum. Born in Moscow. She is a Russian stage and film actress and television presenter.

Her mother is a professional hairdresser. Her grandparents are also hairdressers. That is why, from a very young age, Irina always stood out among her peers with extravagant hairstyles.

Her cousin is the famous actress Anna Starshenbaum.

She decided to become an actress in high school, planned to take acting classes, but her parents and school teachers dissuaded her. They told her that she "should get a serious profession" because "acting doesn't make money".

The young Irina chose, in her words, "a mix" of advertising, public relations and journalism. She entered the Faculty of Communications and Media Business at Moscow Polytechnic University. At the same time, he took courses in theater art, rhetoric and philosophy at Moscow State University of Psychology and Pedagogy.

She worked as a presenter of entertainment programs on Russian television and also collaborated in theaters.

She made her screen debut in 2015, playing the lead role, in the melodrama series The Crossing (2015).

She gained great popularity after filming the comedy series of STS channel TKrysha mira (2015), in which she played the role of an female adventurer.

Irina also achieved great recognition for her vivid role in the detective crime drama "Shakal", in which she played Kalina Poltavchenko, an employee of the State Film Fund, a friend of the protagonist of the series.

In January 2017, the blockbuster Attraction (2017) directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, in which the actress played one of the main roles, was released. According to the plot, an unidentified object is shot down over Moscow initiating a state of emergency in the city.

In early 2018, the sci-fi drama series Lachuga dolzhnika (2018), directed by Alexander Kott and based on a novel by Vadim Shefner, was released. The actress plays one of the main roles: the beautiful Ella, for whose heart the male characters fight.

She played the role of Natasha, Mike Naumenko's wife in the film Leto (2018), a biographical musical drama directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. The film tells about the beginning of the creative path of Viktor Tsoi and the group Kino, his relationship with Mike Naumenko, his wife Natasha and many of those who were at the forefront of the 1981 Leningrad rock movement.

In 2018 she was one of the leading ladies in the war drama T-34 (2018) by Aleksey Sidorov.

She shot in 2020 the sequel to Attraction (2017) also directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, titled Attraction 2: Invasion (2020).

2021 was the year of filming the drama and comedy series Dzhetlag (2021).

In 2022 comes her first venture outside Russia, with the Germanic film Dark Satellites (2022).
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In the winter of 2018, along with other actors and musicians, she recorded a collective video appeal to President Putin asking him to pass the Animal Rights Protection Act.

She is the first cousin of Russian actress Anna Starshenbaum, who is the daughter of her paternal uncle, her father Vladimir's brother Gennadiy. Irina is 2 years and 11 months younger than Anna. Both were born and grew up in Moscow.