Irina Vladimirovna Starshenbaum (; born 30 March 1992) is a Russian actress. For her role in T-34, she won the TEFI award for Best Actress and was a nominee for the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress.
Biography
She graduated from the Faculty of Media Business and Public Relations at Moscow State University of Printing Arts.
She has been acting since 2013. In 2017, she made her debut in a feature film, a lead role in the science fiction movie Attraction by Fyodor Bondarchuk.
In 2018, Kirill Serebrennikov's film about Viktor Tsoi and Mike Naumenko Leto was released, in which Irina played a lead role.
In the winter of 2018, together with other actors and musicians, she recorded a collective video message to President Putin with a request to pass the Law on the Protection of Animal Rights.
Personal life
After filming the movie Attraction, she began dating actor Alexander Petrov. In 2017, they announced their engagement, but broke up in 2019.
Selected filmography
2017 — Attraction as Yuliya Lebedeva
2017 — Black Water as Polina
2018 — Ice as Zhzhyonova
2018 — Leto as Natalia Naumenko
2019 — T-34 as Anya Yartseva, translator
2020 — Invasion as Yuliya Lebedeva
2019 — Gold Diggers as Ulyana Lisina
2020 — Sherlock in Russia as Sofya Kasatkina
2021 — Hostel as Nelly
2021 — Koschey: The Everlasting Story as May (voice) 2022 — Dark Satellites 2023 — Shoshana as Shoshana Borochov