Regina Spektor
Acting
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
Acting21
tvThe Romanoffs
2018
Special Vocal Performance
movieAdam Green's Aladdin
2016
Concerned Townsperson
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Musical Guest
tvLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Self / Self - Musical Guest
tvJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Self - Musical Guest
tvThe View
1997
Self - Guest
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Self - Musical Guest
tvSaturday Night Live
1975
Self - Musical Guest
Sound5
Writing4
Directing2
Art1
movieThe Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2004
Art Direction