Irina Skobtseva

Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva (Russian: Ирина Константиновна Скобцева; born 22 August 1927) is a Russian/Soviet actress and second wife of Sergei Bondarchuk.

Skobtseva appeared in Othello in 1955 along with Sergei Bondarchuk.

She played Pierre Bezukhov's wife Elena Kuragina Bezukhova in the juggernaut War and Peace – a husband-wife pairing, as Pierre was played by Bondarchuk himself. She also had a small cameo role in the 1970s film Waterloo as a French woman who followed her husband to the battlefield.

She semi-retired in the 1980s, but has made some appearances on television since.

She first met Bondarchuk shooting Othello, and they married a year later. His second wife, Skobtseva is the mother of Elena Bondarchuk and Fyodor Bondarchuk.

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