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The Most Famous

ACTORS from Lithuania

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This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 9,996 Actors, 6 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 63rd most number of Actors behind Bulgaria and Peru.

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Actors of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Petr Shelokhonov (1929 - 1999)

With an HPI of 65.04, Petr Shelokhonov is the most famous Lithuanian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.

Petr Illarionovich Shelokhonov, (Polish: Piotr Szełochonow, Russian: Пётр Илларио́нович Шелохо́нов, Belarusian: Пятро Ларывонавіч Шэлахонаў, Ukrainian: Петро Іларіонович Шелохонов; in English also spelled 'Peter' or 'Pyotr' or 'Petr'; 15 August 1929 – 15 September 1999) was a Russian actor, director, filmmaker and socialite, designated Honorable Actor of Russia (1979). A strong proponent of making High culture accessible to all people, he organized social events for all people in artistic communities of St. Petersburg and Moscow using his position as member of the Union of Actors.

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2. Donatas Banionis (1924 - 2014)

With an HPI of 53.68, Donatas Banionis is the 2nd most famous Lithuanian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.Banionis began his career with some films in Lithuanian, but he would later play mainly in Russian language films (although his voice was dubbed by Russian actors). He has also worked outside the USSR like in the title role Francisco Goya of the USSR-GDR coproduction Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971), directed by Konrad Wolf and in the title role as Ludwig van Beethoven in the 1976 DEFA-production Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben. Aside from films, he was a popular stage actor in Panevėžys, where he acted since the age of 17, and which was frequented by Donatas' fans from all over the former Soviet Union. His first teacher was Juozas Miltinis. He acted in Vilnius, in the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. Vladimir Putin once stated that Banionis' part in the 1968 Soviet spy film Dead Season was the reason why he joined the KGB.

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3. Jacques Sernas (1925 - 2015)

With an HPI of 49.74, Jacques Sernas is the 3rd most famous Lithuanian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas (30 July 1925 – 3 July 2015), commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.

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4. Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963 - )

With an HPI of 48.63, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is the 4th most famous Lithuanian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (born January 20, 1963) is а stage and screen actress of Lithuanian origin. She's best known for her performance in Burnt by the Sun (1994) and the leading female role in 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.

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5. Regimantas Adomaitis (1937 - 2022)

With an HPI of 46.10, Regimantas Adomaitis is the 5th most famous Lithuanian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Regimantas Adomaitis (31 January 1937 – 20 June 2022) was a Lithuanian film and stage actor. He was also active in Russia and Germany.

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6. Cornell Borchers (1925 - 2014)

With an HPI of 44.33, Cornell Borchers is the 6th most famous Lithuanian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Gerlind Cornell Borchers (16 March 1925 – 12 May 2014) was a Lithuanian-German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in The Big Lift (1950) and Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in Istanbul (1957). She was said to resemble Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews.

Pantheon has 6 people classified as actors born between 1924 and 1963. Of these 6, 1 (16.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living actors include Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė. The most famous deceased actors include Petr Shelokhonov, Donatas Banionis, and Jacques Sernas. As of April 2022, 1 new actors have been added to Pantheon including Regimantas Adomaitis.

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