Irina Skobtseva: Irina Skobtseva. Actress: War and Peace. Irina Skobtseva was a Russian film actress known for playing Helen Kuragina in epic film War and Peace (1965), a powerful adaptation of the eponymous masterpiece by Lev Tolstoy by director Sergey Bondarchuk. She was born Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva on 22 August 1927, in Tula, USSR (now Russia). Her father, Konstantin Skobtsev, was a meteorology scientist, her mother, julia Nikolaevna, was an archive researcher. While...
Known For: War and Peace (Hélène Bezukhova), Othello (Desdemona), War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (Hélène Bezukhova), War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (Hélène Bezukhova)