Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (born 20 January 1963) is а Lithuanian actress and television presenter. Known for both her screen and stage performances, she has gained recognition for featuring in films such as Burnt by the Sun (1994) and Katya Ismailova (1994), which won her the Nika Award for Best Actress. Dapkūnaitė was also credited in Mission: Impossible (1996), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Emily Young's debut Kiss of Life (2003), and Okkupert (2015–2019).

Dapkūnaitė performed in theaters in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, United States, and Russia, including Steppenwolf Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, The Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre, Theatre of Nations, and more. She has a long-lasting professional partnership with John Malkovich, they worked together on numerous theatrical productions.

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė was born in Vilnius, then in the Lithuanian SSR of the Soviet Union, on 20 January 1963. Her father, Petras Edmundas Dapkūnas, was a diplomat, while her mother, Ingeborga Dapkuniene (Sabalyte), was a meteorologist. Because of work, her parents spent most of their time abroad (in particular, in Moscow), while Ingeborga remained in Vilnius. She was cared for by her grandmother Genovaitė Sabliene, the manager of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, and her aunt and uncle, who held positions at the symphony orchestra.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Dapkūnaitė made her theatrical debut at the age of four as Dolore in the Puccini opera Madama Butterfly. Later, she also played in Faust, The Demon, and The Queen of Spades.^[7] Dapkūnaitė attended theatrical school at the local House of Unions and practiced sports, such as figure skating and basketball (quite popular in Lithuania by that time). After school, she enrolled in the Department of Theater Arts of the Lithuanian State Conservatory and studied under Jonas Vaitkus.^{[4][2][1][6][8][9][10][11]}

• The Honored Artist of the Lithuanian SSR title (was the last person to receive that honor)^[6]
• The 1992 Golden Aries Actress of the Year (Cynics)
• The 1995 Nika Award for Best Actress (Katya Ismailova)
• The 2014 Oleg Yankovsky Creative Discovery award (Zhanna, Theatre of Nations)^[52]

Dapkūnaitė served on the jury of the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001),^[53] the 56th Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation program (2003),^[54] the 55th Berlin International Film Festival (2005),^[55] the 20th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2005),^[56] the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival (2009), and the 67th Venice Film Festival (2010).^[57]

Dapkūnaitė was the Longines Ambassador of Elegance (since 2005) and L'Oréal Ambassador of Beauty (since 2014).^[58][59]

Dapkūnaitė was the head of the Cinemotion acting school, and curated the acting department of the Moscow Film School.^[6][2]

Dapkūnaitė first married a fellow Lithuanian State Conservatory student, a Lithuanian actor, Arūnas Sakalauskas. Her second husband was British artistic director Simon Stokes, with whom she worked on A Slip of the Tongue.^[1][60]

From 2013 to 2018, Dapkūnaitė was married to Russian lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Dmitry Yampolsky. They have a son.^{[2][10][15][61][62]}

At different points of her life she lived in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Belgium. In February 2022, she denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine and left the country.^[63][19][64]

She holds Lithuanian and British citizenship.^[65]

For years,^[66][67] Dapkūnaitė had been the chairperson of the board of trustees of the Hospice Charity Foundation Vera and a member of the board of trustees of the Friends Foundation. Since 2015, she had produced a Touchables (Russian: Прикасаемые) theatrical project in the Theatre of Nations, which aims to integrate deafblind people into the acting community.^{[4][8][68][69][70]}