Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

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Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Born January 20, 1963
Vilnius

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (born January 20, 1963) is a Lithuanian actress.

She has had a number of minor roles in some top Hollywood movies including Mission: Impossible (1996) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), the latter of which featured her as the wife of Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt). She is best known in European film for her portrayal of Maroussia, the wife of Colonel Sergei Kotov (portrayed by Nikita Mikhalkov) in Mikhalkov's film Burnt by the Sun (1994); she is also reprising the role in the sequel, currently filming.

She portrays the mother of Thomas Harris's fictional cannibal and serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, in Hannibal Rising (2007). More recently, she has been very impressive as partner to Alexander Zhulin in the Russian version of Stars on Ice.

In addition, she portrays a Bosnian refugee in Prime Suspect 6, costarring Helen Mirren.

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