Regina Spektor

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.

Regina Spektor is known for work in acting across film and television. New Release currently presents 22 verified screen credits connected to this profile.

Selected work includes Echo in the Canyon (2019), Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015), Saturday Night Live (1975), The View (1997), The Colbert Report (2005), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993). The recorded credits span 1975 to 2022, including 10 movies and 12 TV shows.

The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.