Irina Potapenko

Biography

Irina Potapenko (*1986 in Crimea) is a German-Ukrainian actress. Potapenko was born on the Crimean peninsula in the then Soviet Union. In 1994 she came to Berlin with her mother. Since she was twelve years old, she has played theater, first in a Russian chamber theater, later at the Volksbühne Berlin, among other things, in productions by Frank Castorf. The FilmRevenge was nominated for the Oscar as the best non-English-language film. In addition, she also participated in radio plays. In 2009, she was awarded the Actor Award at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival and nominated for Best German Actress in 2012 for the Jupiter Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irina Potapenko, licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Unorthodox

as Trine

Revanche

as Tamara

Scene of the Crime

as Christina Chorol

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

as Paulina Koogan

The Coming Days

as Alice

Der letzte Bulle

as Katrin Weiss

Brother and Sister

as Sonja

The Lies of the Victors

as Frau Kodolski

In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte

as Ludmilla Rodionova

Der Alte

as Maja Petrescu