Irina Rakshina is a man of difficult fate. She was left without a mother early, and then lost her father. It was necessary to survive in this difficult world. The girl was expected to study at vocational schools and work in the clothing industry. But Irina decided to follow her dream - she wanted to become an actress. Patience, perseverance and hard work allowed Rakshina to make her dream a reality.
From the biography of actress Irina Rakshina
The future actress was born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on May 3, 1962. At the age of four, Ira was left without a mother. She then did not really understand that her mother would never be again. Father gave Irina and her sister to a 24-hour kindergarten. Here the girls lived from Monday to Friday. Irina tried to help her father with the housework, learned to wash and cook. Father, meanwhile, increasingly applied to the bottle, was sick a lot.
At school, Ira studied at "excellent." She mastered the accordion, visited the athletics section. At the age of twelve, the girl was lucky to visit Artek. Returning from the camp, Irina found out that her father was no longer alive. So the sisters were left orphans.
A neighbor took care of the girls, whose two sons were growing up. The adoptive mother insisted that Irina go to study at a vocational school on a seamstress. However, Irina wanted to get a good education and become an actress. Arriving in Moscow, Irina failed to enter VGIK. She settled in a dormitory, worked as a cleaner, but found time to attend the premieres of performances in Moscow theaters.
Actress career
A year later, Irina decided to apply immediately to several metropolitan theater universities. At the Moscow Art Theater, the girl did not go through the competition, but they promised to take her after the first semester. And then someone suggested Irina that actors are also taught in Leningrad. She went to the city on the Neva and became a student at LGITMiK, studied with I. Vladimirov. Already in the second year of training, the aspiring actress received small roles in the Lensovet Theater.
In 1986, Rakshina graduated from high school, after which Igor Vladimirov left her in his theater. One of the first roles of the actress was the role of Iskra in the production of "Tomorrow was the war." At one time, Rakshina even lived in the theater. The same Vladimirov helped her to get her own housing.
The audience was able to remember Rakshin by his roles in the performances of "The Death of a Salesman", as well as "For every sage, rather simplicity."
Since the late 80s, Rakshina has acted in films many times. Here are just a few of the paintings in which she took part: "Jack Vosmerkin -" American ", " Vagrant Bus ", " Virgin's Dream ", " Austrian Field ", " Presumption of Innocence ", " Brother ", " Streets of Broken Lights-3 ", " Black Raven ", " The Last Train ", " Russian Horror stories ", " The Master and Margarita ", " Cargo 200 ", " Paper Soldier ".