Acting
Regina Spektor
Born 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.
Acting credits
7.4This feature-length documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
2022
6.7A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manhattan's East Village.
Other Music
2019
6.8A look at the roots of the historic music scene in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon featuring the music of iconic music groups such as The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas and the Papas.
Echo in the Canyon
2019
6.8In this retelling of the classic tale, Aladdin is an out of work indie-rock singer living in a video-game-world ruled by a perverted technology-obsessed Sultan.
Adam Green's Aladdin
2016
7.0A documentary on the history of the song "Hava Nagila."
Hava Nagila: The Movie
2012
8.0On Friday July 29, 2016, singer/songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor performed at WTTW's Grainger Studio in Chicago to about 400 of her biggest fans. Spektor delivers an array of her compositions from past projects and her (then) latest album 'Remember us to life'.
Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
2017
7.1“Regina Spektor: Live in London” — that’s what it’s called, and that’s what you get. Eighteen songs, performed in December 2009 at the Hammersmith Apollo, with an absolute minimum of onstage chatter and dollops of stylishly grainy, MTV-like filler: Ms. Spektor on the plane from New York, driving through London, applying makeup before the show. It’s perfectly tasteful, a fine showcase for her music and, more important, a fine promotional tool for the accompanying CD and DVD (which — surprise — contain four additional songs).
Regina Spektor: Live in London
2010
A documentary on the vaudevillian art-pop band.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
2006
NRShort film accompanying Regina Spektor's album of the same name.
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2006
NRA collection of video clips accompanying the songs 'The Flowers', 'Carbon Monoxide', 'Ode To Divorce', 'Us' and 'The Ghost Of Corporate Future' from Regina Spektor's 2003 album 'Soviet Kitsch'.
The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2004
Behind the camera
7.1“Regina Spektor: Live in London” — that’s what it’s called, and that’s what you get. Eighteen songs, performed in December 2009 at the Hammersmith Apollo, with an absolute minimum of onstage chatter and dollops of stylishly grainy, MTV-like filler: Ms. Spektor on the plane from New York, driving through London, applying makeup before the show. It’s perfectly tasteful, a fine showcase for her music and, more important, a fine promotional tool for the accompanying CD and DVD (which — surprise — contain four additional songs).
Regina Spektor: Live in London
2010
NRShort film accompanying Regina Spektor's album of the same name.
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2006
NRShort film accompanying Regina Spektor's album of the same name.
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2006
NRA collection of video clips accompanying the songs 'The Flowers', 'Carbon Monoxide', 'Ode To Divorce', 'Us' and 'The Ghost Of Corporate Future' from Regina Spektor's 2003 album 'Soviet Kitsch'.
The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2004
NRA collection of video clips accompanying the songs 'The Flowers', 'Carbon Monoxide', 'Ode To Divorce', 'Us' and 'The Ghost Of Corporate Future' from Regina Spektor's 2003 album 'Soviet Kitsch'.
The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2004
NRA collection of video clips accompanying the songs 'The Flowers', 'Carbon Monoxide', 'Ode To Divorce', 'Us' and 'The Ghost Of Corporate Future' from Regina Spektor's 2003 album 'Soviet Kitsch'.
The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2004