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Regina Spektor
Actor, Composer, Additional CreditsBorn February 18, 1980 (44 years)
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.
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.
Filmography
| 2021 | |
| 2019 | Other Music · as Self |
| 2018 | Echo in the Canyon · as Self |
| 2018 | Poetry In America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2012 | Hava Nagila · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2011 | Big Morning Buzz Live (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2009 | Talk Stoop (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2009 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2009 | NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts (TV Series) · as Self - Vocals, Piano |
| 2005 | Sunday Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Last Call with Carson Daly (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | Loose Women (TV Series) · as Self - Performer |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1992 | Later... with Jools Holland (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1976 | Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |