Irina Aleksandrovna Sotikova was born in Leningrad in a military family in December 1973. Irina's height is 170 centimeters, weight - 58 kilograms.
Student
The biography of Irina Sotikova is quite interesting. All childhood, her parents had to move: Khabarovsk, Chita, Mongolia. Irina lived in the Far East until she was 11 years old, and for the rest of her life, the actress maintained her love of fishing, picking mushrooms and long trips. Returning to Leningrad, she becomes a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts (workshop of V.V. Petrov).
Theatrical career
Since 1995, while still studying at the institute, Irina begins to work at the Akimov Comedy Theater. To this theater, Sotikova remains faithful to this day. Her choice is not surprising, since, as a true Leningrad girl, she grew up from a young age in the atmosphere of art, which this city is simply saturated with. Irina is an actress of the classical genre. Many of the performances of the Comedy Theater were remembered due to the participation of a young actress in them: the role of Anna Page in “Windsor Pranks”, the woman in “The Cat, which walked on its own”, Dainty in “The Village Wife”, the beggar and courtier in “Shadow”. Irina Sotikova is involved in many productions: the maid Marie in “Harold and Mod”, the second wife Barbara Smith in the comedy “Too Married Taxi Driver”, Agnia in “Not All the Cat is Pancake Week”, the girl in “Continuous Troubles”, Lucille in “Passion for Moliere ", Lame cat in" Jelsomino in the land of liars. "
Film works
Irina Sotikova made her film debut immediately after graduation, in 1998, as the Polish-bride Ani Yaji in the film-comedy directed by Arkady Tigay and Yuri Mamin, “Bitter!”. Irina's partners in the film were Andrei Zibrov and Mikhail Porechenkov.
Like other St. Petersburg actresses, she starred a lot in the late 90s in popular TV series on police themes: a nurse in Broken Street Streets 2 (1999), the role of Katya Slastina in the Golden Bullet Agency (2002). ), based on the detectives of Andrei Konstantinov. Irina starred in 6 episodes, and partners in the film Sotikova were Valery Degtyar and Andrei Sokolov.
In the early 2000s, she remained true to her role: Angelica in "Streets of Broken Lights 7" (2005), Masha in the series "Liteiny 4" (2007)
To date, the filmography of the actress has 25 paintings. Irina also took part in the duplication of the role of Beyoncé Knowle in the film Pink Panther (2006). But the main genres in which she works remain detectives, adventure and crime. The role of the youth actress Raisa Golubeva in the melodrama directed by Stanislav Mitin "Travesty" (2006) was especially successful for Irina.
From 2006 to 2010 on the screens of Russia was the series "High School Students", in which Irina Sotikova was the mother of Vani Polesov.
A talented actress was not ignored by such a venerable director as Nikita Mikhalkov, offering Sotikova the role of Arisha in the 2011 episode of “Burnt by the Sun-2”.
Filming in the "Road Patrol"
From 2008 to 2011 on an ongoing basis, Sotikova took part in the series "Road Patrol". The role of captain Marina Voronina made the actress famous and popular. According to Irina herself, in life she is not a bit like her on-screen heroine. In the series, the police captain takes on the most dangerous traffic investigations. Voronin is a tough and purposeful extreme player. She drives a car, takes part in dashing pursuits, and performs difficult tricks at the risk of her life. Sotikova doesn’t even have a car, although she did most of the stunts herself and knows how to drive. And the actress generally learned to shoot in one day in a shooting club from all types of weapons.
As Irina recalls, her parents when watching a film for a long time could not believe that their daughter could be so opposite in character. In life, Irina is feminine and soft, and then I had to jump from the window and shoot from the car at high speed.
Crime detectives occupy the lion's share in the work of Sotikova. In recent series, viewers could see the actress in the role of Zaluzhskaya in “The Khabarov Principle” (2012). Irina (Lyuba, Shilova's acquaintance) plays a big role in several seasons of the Cop War series (2011 - 2013).
In the last films, Sotikova was remembered by the audience for the role of Nyura in the film “Cossack” (2012) and Lily in the crime melodrama “Personal Circumstances”, as well as military doctor Natasha in the military drama “Ladoga” (2013). Irina had some small works in The Secrets of the Investigation (2013) and in Alien District-3 (2013).
Personal life
Currently, Irina Sotikova lives in Moscow. A huge place in the life of an actress takes a movie job. But, despite the great workload, for her beloved person and the most important and pleasant emotions in life, she always finds time among the tours and trips.
Actress Irina Sotikova is beautiful, talented, feminine and without any pathos star. For this, moviegoers love her and the theatergoers specially come to premiere shows with her participation. Her career is developing quite successfully, and I want to believe that more than once will please fans with a lot of work and her charming smile from the screen more than once Irina Sotikova. Photos of the actress from the new films will delight those who faithfully love her.