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Irma Vitovskaya (real name Irina Vitovskaya; born December 30, 1974, Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian theater and film actress, producer and public figure. Honored Artist of Ukraine (2016). Works at the Young Theater (since 1998), best known for her role as Lesya in the TV series Lesya + Roma (2005-2007).
She was born on December 30, 1974 in Ivano-Frankivsk. Irma's father came from the village of Medukha, Galich district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. Maternal great-grandfather is Russian, and his wife is Latvian.
She dreamed of becoming an archaeologist, for several years in a row she tried to enter the Carpathian Institute. Stefanik. She attended a theater group at the Palace of Pioneers in Ivano-Frankivsk.
In 1998 she graduated from the Lviv State Musical Institute with a degree in Drama Theater Actress (course of Bohdan Kozak). Since the same year he has been working at the Kiev Academic Young Theatre.
Repeated participant of many international theater festivals, received personal awards.
Since October 11, 2015, he has been the coach of the Little Giants show on the 1 + 1 channel. She was the host of the TV shows “Marriage Games, or Number for the Newlyweds” (Ukrainian “Suits Igri, or Number for Young People”) and “People’s Star” (Ukrainian “Narodna Zirka”) on the ICTV channel. She took part in the vocal show "People's Star" on the TV channel "Ukraine".
Irma Vitovskaya is an activist of the "Revolution of Dignity" and "Language Maidan", a participant in all pro-Ukrainian protests.
In June 2018, she recorded a video message in support of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia.
Irma Vitovskaya has been a participant in the social and public programs "Street Children" since 2007 and "Stop Bill" since 2011.
In 2014, Irma Vitovskaya started making motanka dolls, selling them, and donates the proceeds to help the army. The most expensive cost 2000 hryvnia. These funds were used to purchase underpants for the Coast Guard and plastic prayer cards for the Fifth Battalion.
With Irena Karpa, Irma Vitovskaya raised money at a creative evening for shoes for the battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps "Right Sector".
Irma Vitovskaya, as a member of the StopBill movement, initiated and starred in the art project Oscar and the Pink Lady, created to raise funds for the needs of terminally ill children. The premiere of the performance took place on October 7 in Ivano-Frankivsk and on October 11 in Kyiv, received several theatrical awards and raised more than 700 thousand hryvnia for palliative children's departments, as well as for mobile teams that will work with such children.
Irma Vitovskaya donated most of her fee for filming in the TV series “Robbery Like a Woman” for the treatment of the wounded in the ATO.
First husband - Vladimir Kokotunov (born May 1, 1969), actor of the Young Theater
Son - Orest Kokotunov-Vitovsky (born March 29, 2011)
The second husband is Vitaliy Vantsa (born 1978), a businessman from Borislav, Lviv region.
Irma's younger sister, Natalya, is married to lawyer Stanislav Lieberman, the brother of singer Tina Karol.
