LITHUANIANS WE SHOULD KNOW
Did you see the movie “SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET”? Watching the names go by, I could not help but notice this obviously Lithuanian name so I got on the internet and looked it up and came up with this from “Vilnius in Your Pocket”
Ingeborga Dapkunaite is the shining star of Lithuanian film stars. In fact, she's the only one who is recognised the world over. Dapkunaite wowed audiences from Moscow to Manhattan as a Soviet Colonel's wife in Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt By the Sun. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and the 1994 Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. All the attention the film received opened up Hollywood to the young actress. She made her American debut in 1996 in Mission: Impossible in a small supporting role. More recently, she returned to the screen as the wife of Heinrich Harrer in the long-awaited, not-well-received Seven Years in Tibet. The Lithuanian actress, born in Vilnius, started her career at the Youth Theatre of Lithuania and even received the theatre's Best Actor award in 1992. This personal honor was surpassed by the Nika (Russian Oscar equivalent) for Best Actress which she received for her role in V. Todorovsky's Moscow Nights. Much of her acting career has been spent on stage: as Katya in "Slip of the Tongue" in London and Chicago and as Marina Oswald in the Chicago production of Don DeLillo's "Libra" which was directed by the enigmatic John Malkovich. Currently the actress lives in London.
A COUPLE OF INTERESTING URLS
An interesting web site about Lithuanian folk-isms.
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