Regina Spektor
Acting
1980-02-18 · Moscow, Russia
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.
Filmography(22)
movieHallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
as Self · 2022 · 7.5
movieEcho in the Canyon
as Self · 2019 · 6.8
movieOther Music
as Self · 2019 · 6.7
tvThe Romanoffs
as Special Vocal Performance · 2018 · 6.4
movieRegina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
as · 2017 · 8.0
movieAdam Green's Aladdin
as Concerned Townsperson · 2016 · 6.8
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Musical Guest · 2015 · 6.1
tvLate Night with Seth Meyers
as Self · 2014 · 5.2
tvLate Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Musical Guest · 2014 · 5.2
movieHava Nagila: The Movie
as Self · 2012 · 7.0
movieRegina Spektor: Live in London
as · 2010 · 7.1
movieThe Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
as Self · 2006 · 0.0
movieMary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
as · 2006 · 0.0
tvThe Colbert Report
as · 2005 · 6.9
movieThe Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
as Herself · 2004 · 0.0
tvJimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Musical Guest · 2003 · 5.3
tvVH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
as · 2003 · 7.3
tvFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self · 2001 · 6.1
tvThe View
as Self - Guest · 1997 · 4.4
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Musical Guest · 1993 · 7.3
tvThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as · 1992 · 5.4
tvSaturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest · 1975 · 6.9