Irina Potapenko

Personal Info

Birthday

January 1, 1986

(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.

Known For

Scene of the Crime

Der Alte

In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte

Der Staatsanwalt

Nord Nord Mord

Der letzte Bulle

Unorthodox

Kommissarin Lucas

Filmography

2025
Der Masuren-Krimi - Mord in Galindien
as Oksana Pavlenko
2024
Aus dem Leben
as Iryna Melnik
Nord bei Nordost - Westend
as Uljana Rudenko
2019
Mär - A German Tale
as Betty
2016
Brother and Sister
as Sonja
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
as Paulina Koogan
2014
The Lies of the Victors
as Frau Kodolski
Daughters
as Julja
2013
Visitors
as Katharina
2011
Et ekteskap
as Tina
2010
The Coming Days
as Alice
2009
Murder on Amrum
as Mathilda Hervas
2008
Revanche
as Tamara
2006
Princess
as Katharina - the Russian emigrée
Der Idiot
as Adelaida Iwanowna
Running on Empty
as Larissa