Irina Kupchenko

Irina Petrovna Kupchenko (Russian: Ирина Петровна Купченко; born in Vienna) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She rose to prominence after acting in Andrei Konchalovsky's 1969 movie adaptation of A Nest of Gentry. She has performed in more than forty films since 1969. Her performance in Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion won her a Best Actress award at the Montreal World Film Festival. She also played Alexandre in The Last Night of the Last Tsar, a play that was based on the book The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky.