- Born
- Birth nameIrina Ivanovna Alfyorova
- Irina Alferova was born on March 13, 1951, in Novosibirsk (USSR). She made her cinematic debut as a student of the State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS). In 1972, after graduation, she was invited to play Dasha into the television series "The Road to Calvary" (1973-1977), where she had enormous success. In 1976, she was accepted into the "Lenin's Young Communist League" theater company in Moscow. She continued to actively work in the cinema, and followed with a role in the military drama "The Black Aspen" (1977), the fairy tale "Autumn Bells" (1978), and a musical "D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers" (1979, TV).
In many films she played together with her husband, Alexandre Abdulov. Their collaboration can be seen in the following films: "Do Not Part with the Loved Ones" (1979), "Saturday and Sunday" (1982, TV), "The Love Forefeeling" (1982), "A Kiss" (1983, TV).
She also had leading roles in the following films: "Vasiliy Buslayev" (1982), "Seven Elements" (1984) "The Right to Choose" (1984), "TASS is Authorized to Inform" (1984), "Rough Landing" (1985), "Only Two Knew the Password" (1985), "And All Will Repeat" (1989), "The Nocturnal Foolishness" (1991), "Yermak" (1996), "The Lost Paradise" (2000), "The Trap" (2007) and many other films and theater productions. In "Top Notch" (1991), she starred together with her daughter, Ksenia Alferova, who also chose the acting path. She played leading roles in the Hungarian film "Tündér Lala" (1981) and Yugoslavian film "Love Letters with Subtext" ("Ljubavna pisma s predumisljajem")(1987).- IMDb mini biography by: Roman A. Ivanov
- SpousesSergey Martynov(1995 - present)Aleksandr Abdulov(1976 - 1993) (divorced)Boyko Gyurov (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- She has four children, one of her own and three she adopted. Indeed, adoption is common in her family. She and her first husband, Bulgarian diplomat Boyko Gyurov, have one daughter of their own, Russian actress Kseniya Alfyorova, who was born on May 24, 1974, in Sofia, Bulgaria. After Irina and Boyko divorced, Kseniya was subsequently adopted and raised by Irina's second husband, Russian actor Aleksandr Abdulov. When Irina married for the third time to Russian actor Sergey Martynov, whom she met on the set of Sheriff's Star (1991), she adopted and raised his two children, Anastasiya and Sergey. Irina also adopted and raised her sister Tatyana's son, Aleksandr, after Tatyana died in 1997.
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