The famous theater and film actress, TV presenter and art historian with a rather unique creative destiny - Inga Ilm - became, according to the British edition of For Him Magazine, one of the hundreds of the most beautiful women in the world. The very same bearer of the honorary title considers intelligence to be the main human quality. And among the significant achievements in her creative career, she singles out the holding of an All-Russian festival for novice authors of literary texts. Indeed, in the "2000s" Inga was actively involved in the business of publishing periodicals in English and Russian, being the founder of the publishing house "Funky Business International-press".
The character of Mashenka Startseva, a delicate girl with a charming smile and huge eyes, has become a kind of symbol of Soviet boys who watched with great pleasure several times the children's film "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Ordinary and Incredible". The young talent in the person of Inga Ilm was chosen from a photograph by her colleagues on the set and on-screen friends in combination - Yegor Druzhinin and Dmitry Barkov.
Biography and creativity of Inga Ilm
On December 22, 1971, the future actress, historian and TV presenter was born in a house on the banks of the Fontanka in the city on the Neva. From early childhood, Inga dreamed of following in the footsteps of her father, a doctor. She studied insects, participated in many school Olympiads, including all-Union ones, went in for equestrian sports and attended a youth circle in the city House of Pioneers.
After graduating from a general educational institution, Ilm studied at the Moscow Art Theater School and the American School of Lee Strasberg, returned to her homeland and was actively involved in theatrical activities, at the same time acting in candid photo shoots, and broadcasting on television. Subsequently, she received a second higher education at Moscow State University (Faculty of History, Department of History and Theory of Art).
Inga Ilm's cinematic debut took place in 1983, when she played in the comedy about good hooligans "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Ordinary and Incredible." Interestingly, due to the high intensity of the filming process, Inga could only attend school once a week. A round excellent student and a role model before filming, she quickly slipped in academic performance. However, her memories of that amazing time are extremely kind and warm.
The filmography of the actress was actively replenished until the mid-nineties. And pictures with her participation: "Vacations of Petrov and Vasechkin, ordinary and incredible" (1984), "Running on the sunny side" (1992), "Luna Park" (1992), "The Musketeers twenty years later" (1992), " You are”(1993),“Musical Forecast”(1993),“Goryachev and Others”(1994) - almost all residents of the post-Soviet space know.
After a ten-year break, there was a film work in the unjustified project "Tea, Coffee, Let's Dance" (2003), after which she decided to leave the profession completely. Her phrase that there is no longer "no desire to walk the road along which thousands of feet have already passed" became the beginning of a new stage in her life, where she is realized as an architectural historian.
Personal life of the actress
Behind the shoulders of the family life of Inga Ilm today there are two marriages and one child. Her first husband was Irish writer and screenwriter Gerard Michael McCarthy. In this family union, the son of Jason Gerald Alexander was born, who, to the special pride of his mother, is already fluent in six languages. However, the acting career and family life in this case could not exist in harmony, and the marriage broke up.
The second and last to date spouse of Inga Ilm was a friend's classmate - Igor Severtsev. This gifted person is realized as a director, architect, artist and designer.
