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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1986-01-01 (39 years old)

Place of Birth

Repubblica autonoma di Crimea

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.

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Known For

Acting

2024

Nord bei Nordost - Westend as Uljana Rudenko
Aus dem Leben as Iryna Melnik

2020

Unorthodox as Trine

2019

2018

Beck is back! as Natascha Fedarenko

2017

Borderland as Jelena

2016

2015

2014

2013

Visitors as Katharina

2012

Rechtsanwalt Vernau as Tatjana Wolgast

2011

Et ekteskap as Tina
Nord Nord Mord as Maria Inonesco

2010

Der letzte Bulle as Katrin Weiss

2009

Murder on Amrum as Mathilda Hervas

2008

Revanche as Tamara

2006

Running on Empty as Larissa
Der Idiot as Adelaida Iwanowna
Princess as Katharina - the Russian emigrée

2005

Der Staatsanwalt as Natalia Krüger

2003

Kommissarin Lucas as Alina Popescu

1977

Der Alte as Maja Petrescu

1970

Scene of the Crime as Christina Chorol