Irina Miroshnichenko is a Russian actress of Moscow Art Theatre
(MKhAT).
She was born Irina Petrovna Miroshnichenko on July 24, 1942, in
Barnaul, Altai province, Soviet Union (now Russia). Her parents were
evacuated from Moscow during the Second World War, and they returned
back to their home in Moscow, when Miroshnichenko was a 3-year-old
child. She received an excellent private education and was raised
bilingual, fluent in French in addition to her native Russian. Young
Miroshnichenko was fond of theatre, she was active in amateur drama
club at her school. From 1961 - 1965 she studied acting under V. Markov
at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1965 as an
actress. She made her big screen debut in 1955, in
The Grasshopper (1955), by director
Samson Samsonov. In 1963, while a
student, she shot to fame with popular film
Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964)
by director
Georgiy Daneliya.
Since 1965 Irina Miroshnichenko has been a permanent member of the
troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There her stage partners were
such renown Russian actors as
Anatoli Ktorov,
Olga Androvskaya,
Angelina Stepanova,
Mikhail Yanshin,
Aleksey Gribov,
Boris Livanov,
Mikhail Kedrov,
Mark Prudkin,
Anastasiya Georgievskaya,
Vasili Toporkov,
Mikhail Bolduman,
Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation
of MKhAT actors -
Oleg Efremov,
Tatyana Doronina,
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy,
Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina,
Alla Pokrovskaya,
Kira Golovko,
Tatyana Lavrova,
Iya Savvina,
Nina Gulyaeva,
Elena Panova,
Darya Moroz,
Olga Litvinova,
Natalya Rogozhkina,
Ekaterina Semyonova,
Olga Yakovleva,
Raisa Maksimova,
Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya,
Anastasiya Voznesenskaya,
Andrey Myagkov,
Stanislav Lyubshin,
Vladimir Kashpur,
Viktor Sergachyov,
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy,
Evgeniy Kindinov,
Vladimir Krasnov,
Dmitriy Nazarov,
Sergey Sazontev,
Avangard Leontev,
Igor Vasilev,
Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky,
Mikhail Porechenkov,
Konstantin Khabenskiy,
Valeri Khlevinsky, Aleksei Agapov,
Valeriy Troshin,
Mikhail Trukhin,
Eduard Chekmazov,
Aleksey Kravchenko, and
Evgeniy Mironov among others. In the
1960s - 1980s Miroshnichenko made her best known stage appearances in
Anton Chekhov's classic plays 'Chaika'
(aka.. The Seagull), 'Dyadya Vanya' (aka.. Uncle Vanya), and 'Vishnevy
sad' (aka.. The Cherry Orchard). She made acclaimed performances as
Rose in 'Tatuirovannaya Roza' (aka.. The Rose Tattoo) by Tennessee
Williams, and as Arkadina in the renewed staging of the Chekhov's
'Chaika' (aka.. The Seagull).
Irina Miroshnichenko was designated People's Actress of Russia, and
received numerous awards from the Soviet and Russian governments. She
was previously married to Lithuanian director
Vytautas Zalakevicius. Outside of
her acting profession Miroshnichenko developed a career as a singer,
she recorded several popular hits. Irina Miroshnichenko is living in
Moscow, Russia.
Sestra po nasledstvu(2018)
Zhenskiy doktor(2012)
DOstoyanie Respubliki(2009)
Proshchalnoe ekho(2004)as Mat Andreya (2004)
Klyukva v sakhare(1995)as Agnessa
Staryy novyy god(1981)
Evening Urgant(2012)as Self - Guest
Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?(2001)as Self - Contestant
Zvyozdy soshlis(2017)as Self - People's Artist of the RSFSR
Chtoby pomnili(1993)as Self
6-ya tseremoniya vrucheniya natsionalnoy premii Ovatsiya(1998)as Self - Presenter
