Irina Starshenbaum

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.

In 2023, she had her first English-speaking role in Michael Winterbottom's Shoshana. She plays Shoshana Borochov, daughter of Ber Borochov, one of the founders of socialist Zionism.

Personal life After filming the movie Attraction, she began dating actor Alexander Petrov. In 2017, they announced their engagement, but broke up in 2019. She is Jewish.

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 2019 — Gold Diggers as Ulyana Lisina 2020 — Invasion as Yuliya Lebedeva 2020 — Sherlock in Russia as Sofya Kasatkina 2021 — Hostel as Nelly 2021 — Mediator as Marina 2021 — Koschey: The Everlasting Story as May (voice) 2022 — Dark Satellites 2022 — In Two as Ira 2023 — Shoshana as Shoshana Borochov 2023 — Fisher as Nadezhda Raikina 2024 — The Enchanted Tinderbox as Nastasya Ivanovna 2025 — There as Vera