Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė was born in Vilnius, then in the Lithuanian SSR of the Soviet Union, on 20 January 1963. Her father, Petras Edmundas Dapkūnas, was a diplomat, while her mother, Ingeborga Dapkūnienė (Sabalytė), was a meteorologist. Because of work, her parents spent most of their time abroad (in particular, in Moscow), while Ingeborga remained in Vilnius. She was cared for by her grandmother Genovaitė Sabliene, the manager of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, and her aunt and uncle, who held positions at the symphony orchestra.{{cite web |url=https://www.thevoicemag.ru/stars/biography/ingeborga-dapkunaite/ |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite |publisher=The Voice |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://7days.ru/stars/bio/ingeborga-dapkunayte/ |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite |publisher=7 Days |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://teleprogramma.pro/news/325033 |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте отмечает 55-летний юбилей |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite is 55 |date=January 20, 2018 |publisher=Teleprogramma.pro |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/dapkunayte-ingeborga |title=Дапкунайте, Ингеборга |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite |publisher=TASS |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web | last=Haselböck. | first=Martin | title=News | website=slic.org.au | date=9 January 2011 | url=https://www.slic.org.au/News/news_090111.htm | access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.vokrug.tv/person/show/ingeborga_dapkunaite/ |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite |publisher=Vokrug TV |access-date=2024-02-08}}

Dapkūnaitė made her theatrical debut at the age of four as Dolore in the Puccini opera Madama Butterfly. Later, she also played in Faust, The Demon, and The Queen of Spades.{{cite book | last=Rai | first=M. | title=The Values Compass: What 101 Countries Teach Us About Purpose, Life, and Leadership | publisher=Simon & Schuster | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-5011-8338-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFXDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA314 | access-date=7 January 2024 | page=314}} Dapkūnaitė attended theatrical school at the local House of Unions and practiced sports, such as figure skating and basketball (quite popular in Lithuania by that time). After school, she enrolled in the Department of Theater Arts of the Lithuanian State Conservatory and studied under Jonas Vaitkus.{{cite web |url=https://www.buro247.ru/stars/ingeborga-dapk-nait |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте |lang=ru |publisher=Buro 24/7 |trans-title=Ingeborda Dapkunaite |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.russkoekino.ru/books/star/star-0004.shtml |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте. Творческая биография |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite. Creative Bio |author=Agness Wever |publisher=Russian Cinema |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.novochag.ru/stars/zvezdnyy-fakt/byvshiy-muzh-molozhe-na-14-let-pervenec-v-53-7-faktov-ob-ingeborge-dapkunayte/ |title=Бывший муж моложе на 14 лет, первенец в 53 года: 7 фактов об Ингеборге Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=7 facts about Ingeborga Dapkunaite |author=Maksim Vinogradov |date=January 20, 2023 |publisher=Novyi Ochag |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=R. |last2=Wood |first2=N. |last3=Graffy |first3=J. |last4=Iordanova |first4=D. |title=The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-83871-849-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JGr8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1979 |access-date=6 January 2024 |page=1979}}

After the Conservatory, Dapkūnaitė joined Kaunas State Drama Theatre. In two years, she had played seven leading roles in the productions by her master, Jonas Vaitkus. She portrayed Antigone in the production of Sophocles' play,{{cite journal |last1=Lotman |first1=Maria-Kristiina |last2=Bodniece |first2=Līva| first3=Jovita |last3= Dikmonienė | title=Reception of Sophocles' Antigone in the Baltic States |journal=Literatūra |volume=64 |issue=4 |date=2022 | pages=20–42 |url=https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6951/695174104002/html/ |issn =0258-0802 |access-date=6 January 2024| doi=10.15388/Litera.2022.64.4.13|doi-access=free }} played Shelly in the Buried Child, and several Shakespearean roles.{{cite book | title=Soviet Life | publisher=Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA | issue=nos. 364-375 | year=1987 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abNWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA7-PA54 |access-date=7 January 2024 | page=7-PA54}} Later, she was invited to the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. She also worked in the Vilnius State Theatre under Eimuntas Nekrošius and performed in The Seagull and The Nose.

In 1992, she performed together with John Malkovich in the production of Slip of the Tongue at Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago) and then at Shaftesbury Theatre (London), directed by Simon Stokes. This role resulted in many years of friendship and collaboration with Malkovich, while Stokes soon became Dapkūnaitė's (second) husband.{{cite web |url=https://spletnik.ru/153732-ocharovatelnyy-elf-lichnaya-zhizn-ingeborge-dapkunayte-258609 |title=Очаровательный эльф: Личная жизнь Ингеборге Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=A charming elf: the private life of Ingeborga Dapkunaite |author=Elena Dokuchaewa |date=January 29, 2018 |publisher=Spletnik |access-date=2024-02-08}} Dapkunaite played in Malkovich's Steppenwolf production Libra, acted alongside him in The Giacomo Variations in Ronacher (Vienna) and Sydney Opera, and in Timofei Kulyabin's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields in Dailes Theatre (Riga).{{cite web |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/05/23/radio-dolin-ya-kakaya-to-vechnaya-inostranka |title=«Радио Долин»: «Я какая-то вечная иностранка». Интервью Ингеборги Дапкунайте — об отъезде из России, сериале про российскую оккупацию и работе с Балабановым и Малковичем |language=ru |trans-title=Radio Dolin. "I'm a foreigner of a kind." Interview with Ingeborga Dapkunaite |date=May 23, 2022 |publisher=Meduza |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite interview | first=John| last=Malkovich | title=John Malkovich in Estonia: I was raised to be curious about the world | website=ERR | date=22 April 2023 | url=https://news.err.ee/1608953273/john-malkovich-in-estonia-i-was-raised-to-be-curious-about-the-world | access-date=6 January 2024}}

Dapkūnaitė also worked in other theaters in the UK, U.S.,, and Europe. In London, she appeared in Cloaca, directed by Kevin Spacey, at The Old Vic, in Moonlight, and in After Darwin at the Hampstead Theatre, and in The Vagina Monologues at Ambassadors Theatre. In Moscow, she played Vera Pavlova. Poems in the Practice Theatre. She also performed in the Theatre of Nations and had leading roles in Zhanna, The Idiot, Circus, and Ivan Vyrypaev's Iranian Conference.{{cite web |url=https://www.iti-worldwide.org/pdfs/ITI-INFO-47.pdf |title=Восток-Запад |language=ru |trans-title=East and West |date=2019 |publisher=ITI-Info |access-date=2024-02-08}} She also had a lead play in Touchables ({{langx|ru|Прикасаемые}}), the first-ever theatrical production with deaf-blind actors.{{cite web |url=https://www.thevoicemag.ru/stars/news/11-08-2023/ya-prekrasno-snimalas-v-rossii-dlya-menya-eto-poterya-ingeborga-dapkunaite-tyajelo-perejivaet-emigraciyu/ |title=«Я прекрасно снималась в России. Для меня это потеря»: Ингеборга Дапкунайте пожаловалась на трудности эмиграции |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite on immigration difficulties |author=Tatiana Tsykova |date=August 11, 2023 |publisher=The Voice |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |author=Freedman, John |title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite Stars in Pulinovich's Latest Play 'Zhanna' |website=The Moscow Times |date=18 June 2014 |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/06/18/ingeborga-dapkunaite-stars-in-pulinovichs-latest-play-zhanna-a36522 |access-date=6 January 2024}}

Dapkūnaitė debuted on screen in 1984 (as a fourth-grade student) as Aukse in Raimundas Banionis's first feature film Mano mazyte žmona ({{langx|en|My Little Wife}}. In 1986, she performed together with Igor Kostolevsky in Isaak Fridbergas's Nakties paklydeliai ({{langx|en|Night Whispers)}}. The same year, she played in Chameleono zaidimai ({{langx|en|Chameleon Game}}, written and directed by Arūnas Žebriūnas.{{cite web |url=https://www.culture.ru/live/movies/1635/igra-khameleona |title=Игра хамелеона |language=ru |trans-title=Chameleon Game |publisher=Culture.ru |access-date=2024-02-08}} In 1987, she starred in the television film {{ill|Elektroninė senelė|lt}} ({{langx|en|Electronic Grandmother}}) based on Ray Bradbury's short story I Sing the Body Electric. and acted in the war drama Savaitgalis pragare ({{langx|en|Weekend in Hell}}).{{cite web |url=https://dzen.ru/a/ZL1k1sqFiyEqtjFt |title="Воскресный день в аду": артхаусный триллер о войне с берегов Балтийского моря |language=ru |trans-title="Sunday Day in Hell": an arthouse war thriller from the shores of the Baltic Sea|date=September 27, 2023 |publisher=Shot in Kaliningrad |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=http://akter.kulichki.net/se/08_1990-1.htm |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте. Горожанка |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite. The Citizen |date=1990 |publisher=Soviet Screen |access-date=2024-02-08}}

Dapkūnaitė became widely popular in the Soviet Union after the role of the young prostitute Kisulya in Pyotr Todorovsky's 1989 drama Intergirl. In 1991, she starred in Dmitry Meskhiev's Cynics, in which she received the 1992 Golden Aries Actress of the Year award. In 1994, the leading role in Valery Todorovsky's 1994 drama film Katya Ismailova won Dapkūnaitė the Nika Award for Best Actress.{{cite web |url=https://aif.ru/culture/person/ulybka_osanka_lyubov_zhenskie_sekrety_ingeborgi_dapkunayte |title=Улыбка, осанка, любовь. Женские секреты Ингеборги Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=Smile, posture, love. The secrets of Ingeborga Dapkuniate |date=January 20, 2018 |publisher=Argumenty i Fakty |access-date=January 20, 2022}} The same year, Dapkūnaitė portrayed Marussia in Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun, which received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite news|url=http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/taymors-tempest-close-venice-fest-19561|title=Taymor's 'Tempest' to Close Venice Fest|last=Pond|first=Steve|date=26 July 2010|work=The Wrap|access-date=21 September 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230811102726/https://www.thewrap.com/taymors-tempest-close-venice-fest-19561/ |archive-date =11 August 2023 }}{{cite web | title=A Russian baptism of fire | website=The Herald | date=17 August 1995 | url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12091577.a-russian-baptism-of-fire/ | access-date=6 January 2024}}{{cite web | title=The 67th Academy Awards | website=Oscars.org | date=27 March 1995 | url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 | access-date=2024-01-06}}

Her other roles in the Soviet and Russian movies included Vija Beinerte's Stecheniye obstoyatel'stv (1988), Igor Talankin's Osen, Chertanovo... (1989), Alexei Balabanov's Morphine (film) (2008), Aleksandr Melnik's Terra Nova (2008), Jamie Bradshaw's and Alexander Dulerayn's Branded.{{cite web | last=Webster | first=Andy | title='Branded,' Starring Ed Stoppard | website=The New York Times | date=8 September 2012 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/movies/branded-starring-ed-stoppard.html | access-date=7 January 2024}} Her leading roles included Orange Juice by Andrey Proshkin{{cite web |url=https://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/dapkunaite_ne_lyubit_apelsinovyi_sok |title=Дапкунайте не любит апельсиновый сок |language=ru |trans-title=Dapkunaite doesn't like apple juice |date=2010-02-12 |publisher=Vokrug TV |access-date=2024-02-08}} and Winter Will not Come by Ilia Demichev.{{cite web |url=https://www.amur.kp.ru/daily/26282.7/3159480/ |title=Конкурсный показ фильмов «Амурской осени» завершила картина «Зимы не будет» |language=ru |trans-title="Winter will not come" closes the Amur Fall Festival programme |author=Olga Novoseltseva |date=September 14, 2014 |publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda |access-date=2024-02-08}} On TV, she appeared as Morpheya in the Sky Court (2011), Mrs Hudson in the adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (2012),{{cite web | title=New Russian Sherlock Holmes Series Completed :: Russia-InfoCentre | website=russia-ic.com | date=7 January 2024 | url=http://russia-ic.com/news/show/14073 | language=la | access-date=7 January 2024}} Alexandra Feodorovna in the Grigoriy R mini-series (2014),{{cite book | last=Mayhew | first=M. | title=Rasputin and his Russian Queen: The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra | publisher=Pen and Sword | year=2023 | isbn=978-1-3990-8368-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ty1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT245 | access-date=7 January 2024 | page=245}} and Maria Feodorovna in Alexei Uchitel's 2017 Matilda.{{cite web |url=https://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2017-11/mathilde-eidinger-russland-film |title=Brisanter Kitsch |author=Barbara Schweizerhof |date=November 2, 2017 |publisher=Zeit Online |access-date=2024-02-08}}

On TV, Dapkūnaitė was the co-host of the Russian edition of the Big Brother reality show (2005) and the spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 finals in Moscow. She also took part in the Stars on Ice (2006) and The new songs about the most important things (2007) TV shows. She also performed in the music video for the Bi-2 alternative rock track My Rock 'n Roll.

In the 1990s, the success of the Burnt by the Sun sparked interest in Dapkūnaitė among filmmakers in the West.{{cite web |url=https://iz.ru/697691/zoia-igumnova/ingeborga-dapkunaite-devushka-ulybka |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте: девушка-улыбка |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite: the girl and the smile |author=Zoa Igumnova |date=January 20, 2018 |publisher=Izvestia |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.gq.ru/entertainment/15-myslej-ingeborgi-dapkunajte |title=15 мыслей Ингеборги Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=15 thoughts of Ingeborga Dapkunaite |author=Mikhail Idov |date=April 17, 2014 |publisher=GQ |access-date=2024-02-08}} She was invited to play the role of IMF (Impossible Missions Force) agent Hannah Williams in Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible and portrayed the wife of Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt) in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Seven Years in Tibet (1997).{{cite web | title=Seven Years in Tibet | website=TVGuide.com | date=12 September 1997 | url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/seven-years-in-tibet/cast/2000121724/ | access-date=6 January 2024}} In 2003, Dapkūnaitė portrayed Helen in Emily Young's debut feature film Kiss of Life ,{{cite book |last=Murphy |first=R. |title=Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-83871-533-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qzn8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA638 |access-date=7 January 2024 |page=638}} and in 2007, she played the mother of Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising, directed by Peter Webber.{{cite web |language=ru |url=https://www.timeout.ru/msk/feature/1065 |title=Интервью: Ингеборга Дапкунайте |trans-title=Inverview: Ingeborga Dapkunaite |publisher=Time Out |date=2007-02-05 |accessdate=2022-05-02}}

She also acted together with Emir Kusturica in the espionage thriller L'affaire Farewell (2009) by Christian Carion{{cite web| url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806029/| title =Farewell| publisher =IMDB| access-date =2024-02-08}} and played in Alexis Lloyd's romantic comedy 30 Beats (2012).{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/movies/30-beats-with-condola-rashad-and-justin-kirk.html |title=A Manhattan Roundelay of Young, Mating Singles |author=Stephen Holden |date=July 19, 2012 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2024-02-08}}

Dapkūnaitė's roles on TV included Alexandra Feodorovna in the TV mini-series The Lost Prince (2003); Jasmina Blekic in Series 6 of Prime Suspect (2003);{{cite web |title=Masterpiece Theatre; Prime Suspect, Series VI: The Last Witness |website=openvault.wgbh.org | url=https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D851B78F8BA94273B9FB3D3D7204B703 |access-date=7 January 2024}}{{cite web |title= Prime Suspect (1991-2006) Credits |website= BFI Screenonline |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/493056/credits.html |access-date=7 January 2024}} nurse Katya Bredova in Season 1 of the medical drama series Bodies (2004);{{cite web |title=Tougher than AC-12? Why every Line of Duty fan needs to watch Bodies |website=The Telegraph |date=22 April 2019 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/bodies-line-duty-creator-jed-mercurios-bloody-cynical-medical/ |access-date=7 January 2024}} and Baiba Liepa in Wallander, episodes "The Dogs of Riga" and "A Lesson in Love".{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00v2d9v/p00v2ckl |title=An Event in Autumn, Before the Frost and Dogs of Riga |publisher=BBC |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.criminalelement.com/wallander-402-qa-lesson-in-loveq-episode-review/ |title=Wallander 4.02: "A Lesson in Love" Episode Review |author=Leslie Gilbert Elman |date=May 16, 2016 |publisher=Criminal Element |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite book | last1=Badley | first1=L. | last2=Nestingen | first2=A. | last3=Seppälä | first3=J. | title=Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation | publisher=Springer International Publishing | series=Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture | year=2020 | isbn=978-3-030-38658-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tU7iDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA161 | access-date=7 January 2024 | page=161}}

Dapkūnaite played top Russian diplomat Irina Sidorova, one of the key roles in the Norwegian series Okkupert ({{langx|en|Occupied}}), first aired in 2015.{{cite web | title=Review: 'Occupied – Okkupert' | website=WeekendSpecial | date=29 May 2018 | url=https://weekendspecial.co.za/occupied-okkupert-review-netflix/ | access-date=6 January 2024}}{{cite web | title=Okkupert (TV Show, 2015 | website=MovieMeter | date=19 January 2016 | url=https://www.moviemeter.com/tv/drama/okkupert | access-date=6 January 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.onassis.org/people/ingeborga-dapkunaite |title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite |publisher=Onassis Foundation |access-date=2024-02-08}} In the 2018 Russian-Estonian remake of the 2011 Swedish/Danish crime drama The Bridge she played the lead role of Estonian detective Inga Veerma.{{cite web | last=Jackson | first=Jasper | title=The Bridge: new version to span Russia and Estonia | website=the Guardian | date=4 April 2016 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/04/the-bridge-russia-estonia | access-date=7 January 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Holdsworth |first1=Nick |title=MIPTV: Scandinavian TV Hit 'The Bridge' to Get Russian Remake |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/miptv-scandinavian-tv-hit-bridge-880396 |access-date=1 August 2016 |publisher=Hollywood Reporter |date=4 April 2016}}{{cite web |last=Кузнецов |first=Валерий |title=Второй сезон сериала "Мост" выходит на платформе START |website=Российская газета |date=30 April 2020 |url=https://rg.ru/2020/04/30/vtoroj-sezon-seriala-most-vyhodit-na-platforme-start.html |language=ru |access-date=7 January 2024}}

• The Honored Artist of the Lithuanian SSR title (was the last person to receive that honor)
• The 1992 Golden Aries Actress of the Year (Cynics)
• The 1995 Nika Award for Best Actress (Katya Ismailova)
• The 2014 Oleg Yankovsky Creative Discovery award (Zhanna, Theatre of Nations){{cite web |url=https://www.1tv.ru/movies/statyi/zritelyu-budet-interesno-nablyudat-za-etoy-istoriey-dazhe-esli-emu-znakom-syuzhet-kak-spektakl-zhanna-perekocheval-na-ekran |title=«Зрителю будет интересно наблюдать за этой историей, даже если ему знаком сюжет». Как спектакль «Жанна» перекочевал на экран |language=ru |trans-title=Zhanna: from stage to screen |date=April 12, 2023 |publisher=Channel One Russia |access-date=2024-02-08}}

Dapkūnaitė served on the jury of the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001),{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2001 |title=23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001) |access-date=2013-03-29 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328141339/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2001 |archive-date=28 March 2013}} the 56th Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation program (2003),{{cite web |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/p/ingeborga-dapkunaite/ |title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite |publisher=Festival de Cannes |access-date=February 6, 2024}} the 55th Berlin International Film Festival (2005),{{cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/en/berlinale-jury-complete/a-1472124 |title=Berlinale Jury Complete |date=January 28, 2005 |publisher=DW |access-date=February 6, 2024}} the 20th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2005),{{cite web |url=https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/editor/le_grand_voyage_by_ismael_ferroukhi_wins_at_mar_del_plata |title=Le Grand Voyage", by Ismael Ferroukhi wins at Mar del Plata |date=March 23, 2005 |publisher=FilmFestivals.com |access-date=February 6, 2024}} the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival (2009), and the 67th Venice Film Festival (2010).{{cite news |url=http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/taymors-tempest-close-venice-fest-19561 |title=Taymor's 'Tempest' to Close Venice Fest |last=Pond |first=Steve |date=26 July 2010 |work=The Wrap |access-date=21 September 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811102726/https://www.thewrap.com/taymors-tempest-close-venice-fest-19561/ |archive-date=11 August 2023}}

Dapkūnaitė was the Longines Ambassador of Elegance (since 2005) and L'Oréal Ambassador of Beauty (since 2014).{{cite web |url=https://en.worldtempus.com/article/industry-news/people-and-interviews/longines-video-ingeborga-dapkunaite-ambassador-of-elegance-19153.html |title=Video. Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Ambassador of Elegance |date=April 16, 2015 |publisher=Worldtempus. |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://hellomagrussia.ru/krasota-i-zdorove/ukhod-za-kozhey-i-volosami/1902-ingeborga-dapkunajte-stala-licom-loreal-paris.html |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте стала лицом L'Oreal Paris |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkubnaite became the Ambassador for L'Oreal Paris |date=2014-03-14 |publisher=Hello! |access-date=2024-02-08}}

Dapkūnaitė was the head of the Cinemotion acting school, and curated the acting department of the Moscow Film School.

Dapkūnaitė first married a fellow Lithuanian State Conservatory student, a Lithuanian actor, Arūnas Sakalauskas. Her second husband was British artistic director Simon Stokes, with whom she worked on A Slip of the Tongue.{{cite book | last1=Berghahn | first1=D. | last2=Sternberg | first2=C. | title=European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK | series=Palgrave European Film and Media Studies | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-230-29507-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3xaCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 | access-date=7 January 2024 | page=72}}

From 2013 to 2018, Dapkūnaitė was married to Russian lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Dmitry Yampolsky. They have a son.{{cite web |url=https://www.woman.ru/stars/interdevochka-s-ledyanoi-ulybkoi-kak-ingeborga-dapkunaite-vlyublyala-vsekh-na-svoem-puti-id705651/ |title=«Интердевочка» с ледяной улыбкой: как Ингеборга Дапкунайте влюбляла всех на своем пути |language=ru |trans-title=Interdevochka: how everyone fell for Ingeborga Dapkunaite |author=Maya Alfeeva |publisher=Woman.ru |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.starhit.ru/story/uvela-chuzhogo-muzha-rodila-v-53-uekhala-iz-rossii-v-belgiyu-vse-pro-ingeborgu-dapkunaite-861848/ |title=Увела чужого мужа, родила в 53, уехала из России в Бельгию. Все про Ингеборгу Дапкунайте |language=ru |trans-title=Everything about Ingeborga Dapkunaite |date=2024-02-08 |publisher=StarHit |access-date=2024-02-08}}

At different points of her life she lived in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Belgium. In February 2022, she denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine and left Russia.{{cite web |author=Justina Ilkevičiūtė |url=https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1659960/lithuanian-actor-ingeborga-dapkunaite-i-should-have-left-russia-in-2014-interview |title=Lithuanian actor Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė: I should have left Russia in 2014 – interview |publisher=LRT.lt |date=2022-04-01 |access-date=2022-05-02}}{{cite web |url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/photo/ingeborga-dapkunaite--60.shtml |title=Звезда перестройки и Голливуда. Ингеборге Дапкунайте — 60 |language=ru |trans-title=The Hollywood and Perestroyka star, Ingeborga Dapkunaite is 60 |date=January 20, 2023 |publisher=Gazeta.ru |access-date=2024-02-08}}

She holds Lithuanian and British citizenship.{{cite web |url=https://www.kino-teatr.ru/lifestyle/news/y2019/9-30/19256/ |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте рассказала о своём сыне |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite and her son |date=September 30, 2019 |publisher=Kino-Teatr |access-date=January 20, 2023}}

For years,{{cite web |url=https://www.marieclaire.ru/stil-zjizny/ingeborga-dapkunayte-nikto-ne-nauchit-cheloveka-byit-akterom-/ |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте: «Никто не научит человека быть актером» |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite: "Can't teach one to be an actor"|publisher=Marie Claire |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.novochag.ru/stars/zvezdnye-semyi/ingeborga-dapkunayte-pochemu-poslednie-dni-cheloveka-dolzhny-byt-huzhe-chem-vsya-ego-zhizn/ |title=Ингеборга Дапкунайте: «Почему последние дни человека должны быть хуже, чем вся его жизнь?» |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite: "Why should one's last days be worse than the rest of his life?" |author=Natalia Rodnikova |date=May 11, 2020 |publisher=Novyi Ochag |access-date=2024-02-08}} Dapkūnaitė had been the chairperson of the board of trustees of the Hospice Charity Foundation Vera and a member of the board of trustees of the Friends Foundation. Since 2015, she had produced a Touchables ({{langx|ru|Прикасаемые}}) theatrical project in the Theatre of Nations, which aims to integrate deafblind people into the acting community.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.ru/forbeslife-photogallery/430007-premiya-filantrop-goda-forbes-vpervye-vruchil-prizy-glavnym-mecenatam |title=Премия «Филантроп года»: Forbes впервые вручил призы главным меценатам страны |language=ru |trans-title=Forbes Russia Philanthropist of the Year |date=May 21, 2021 |work=Forbes |access-date=2024-02-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.agents.media/ingeborga-dapkunajte-uehala-iz-rossii/ |title=Актриса Ингеборга Дапкунайте уехала из России и назвала ошибкой решение остаться в стране после 2014 года |language=ru |trans-title=Ingeborga Dapkunaite left Russia and recognized her decision to stay after 2014 a mistake |date=April 1, 2022 |publisher=Agentstvo |access-date=January 20, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://ijlass.org/data/frontImages/gallery/Vol._3_No._8/10._73-91.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717071701/https://ijlass.org/data/frontImages/gallery/Vol._3_No._8/10._73-91.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=17 July 2020 |title=About history of women's charity |author=Korotkova S.A. |date=2015 |publisher=International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science |access-date=2024-02-08}}

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