Irina Gubanova: Irina Gubanova. Actress: War and Peace. Irina Gubanova was a Russian ballerina and film actress known as Elsa in The Snow Queen (1967) and Sonya in War and Peace (1965). She was born Irina Igorevna Gubanova on March 3, 1940, in Leningrad, Russia (now, St. Petersburg, Russia). From 1950 to 1957 she studied classical ballet at the Leningrad Ballet Academy under Agrippina Vaganova, graduating in 1957 as ballerina. During the 1950s...
Known For: War and Peace (Sonia Rostova), Pikovaya dama (Polina(as I. Gubanova-Gurzo)), War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (Soniya), War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (Sonya)