According to many, the most beautiful domestic film actress - Antonenko Irina Igorevna - is the owner of the prestigious titles "Miss Yekaterinburg-2009" and "Miss Russia-2010". But, despite the rapid rise in the modeling business, Irina nevertheless preferred just acting for a thematic career. Today, the general public, she is mainly known for the main characters in the film projects "Ship", "Golden Cage" and "Hornet's Nest."
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The popular Russian actress Irina Antonenko has a theatrical project in her professional portfolio. On the stage of the Meyerhold Theater Center, she took part in the play "The Secret of Magic Rings".
In addition, the movie star managed to try her hand and as a TV presenter. Behind her are the program "In the subject" (channel "U") and "Agents 003" (channel "TNT").
Biography and career of Irina Igorevna Antonenko
On September 1, 1991, in Yekaterinburg, a future model and movie star was born in the family of a military serviceman and law enforcement officer. School years of an unusually beautiful girl at the insistence of parents, together with their older brother and sister passed in cadet classes. However, genes (grandmother was an actress) and appearance forced Irina to take part in beauty contests and dream of a real scene.
After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Antonenko entered again at the insistence of her parents at the Ural University of Finance and Law. But, being a student, she began to seriously engage in modeling business. During two years of work at the agency of Ilya Vinogradov in Yekaterinburg, she very loudly declared herself, becoming the owner of the title "Miss Auto Sound-2008" and other achievements of local competitions.
And the next year, she already put on the crown of Miss Ekaterinburg-2009. But this was not enough for an ambitious girl. The title "Miss Russia" in 2010 made the recent graduate of a provincial school the most beautiful girl in the country. After such a resounding success, the German agency Philippe Plein made Irina Antonenko the official face of her company and entered into a lucrative contract with her.
In addition, the girl in 2010 represented Russia at the Miss Universe title contest in Las Vegas, where she was able to break through among the fifteen finalists.
Despite the huge achievements on the catwalks of the country and the world, Antonenko still decided not to connect her professional career with the modeling business, but to be realized as an actress. Therefore, she was already an accomplished creative person entered the Russian University of Theater Arts.
Irina Igorevna got her first cinematic experience by starring in the music videos of Mark Yusim and the 4POST band, as well as the short film series Kinoproba. And the real debut as a movie actress took place in 2011, when she in a cameo role became a participant in Timur Bekmambetov's film project "Phantom". And two years later she became recognizable throughout the post-Soviet space, starring in the title series "The Ship" (2013-2015) as the girl of the main character.
Currently, the filmography of the actress is filled with many film works, among which the following should be highlighted: “The Golden Cage” (2013), “There Will Be No Wedding”, (2014), “Red” (2015), “Wasp Nest” (2016), “ Elastico "(2016), " Sworn Friends "(2017), " Detachment "(2017).