Regina Spektor
- Acting
- February 18, 1980 · Moscow, Russia
Biography
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical Russian-Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Spektor has a brother, Boruch (also known as Bear). Growing up in Moscow, Regina started taking piano lessons when she was seven and learned how to play the piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that her grandfather gave her mother. She grew up listening to classical music and famous Russian bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union, also exposed her to rock and roll bands such as the Beatles, Queen, and the Moody Blues.
Known for
Filmography
- Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song · Self
- Bombshell · Songs
- Modern Love · Songs
- Echo in the Canyon · Self
- Other Music · Self
- The Romanoffs · Special Vocal Performance
- Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage · Music, Lyricist
- Adam Green's Aladdin · Concerned Townsperson
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- Hava Nagila: The Movie · Self
- Regina Spektor: Live in London · Writer, Music
- The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway · Self
- Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories · Director, Writer
- The Colbert Report
- The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch · Self, Director
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross · Self
- The View · Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien · Self
- Later... with Jools Holland
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Saturday Night Live · Self