Irmena Chichikova

Irmena Chichikova (born Ирмена Чичикова on 22 May 1984) is a Bulgarian actress in theater, television and film.

Chichikova made her professional stage debut in The Art of Sweeping Things Under the Rug (2008), a play based on Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage, as Marianne, for which she received a nomination at IKAR (2009) and the award for best female lead role at the ASKEER Theater awards (2009). She received critical and commercial success on the stage. Following that she performed in Nirvana (2009), and in the following years toured Canada and France with the play Construction of the Liberated Imagination (2010) based on the works of Eugène Ionesco. She then performed in Duck Hunting (2012) by Alexander Vampilov at the Bulgarian National Theater "Ivan Vazov". In 2012 she appeared in the film I Am You (2012) for which she received critical acclaim and won the lead female award at the Golden Rose National Film Festival (2012). In 2014 she appeared in Viktoria (2014) as Boryana, the mother of a child named Viktoria who was born without an umbilical cord, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival World Competition in January. The following year she appeared in Sound Hunters (2015).

Irmena Chichikova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She was raised in Plovdiv where she attended the French Language High School "Antoine de Saint Exupéry," graduating in 2003 before moving to Sofia, Bulgaria to complete her education at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts under the tutelage of Professors Margarita Mladenova and Ivan Dobchev. She also studied Modern Greek. Her diploma performances included Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, directed by Margarita Mladenova, and Dakota / Words in Chains by Jordi Galceran and directed by Stilian Petrov. Upon graduating in 2008, she became a full-time freelance actress.

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