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.
Acting
TV
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
TV
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Musical Guest
2015
TV
The Colbert Report
2005
TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Musical Guest
2003
TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Musical Guest
1993
TV
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
TV
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Musical Guest
2014
TV
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
TV
The Romanoffs
as Special Vocal Performance
2018
Movie
Echo in the Canyon
as Self
2019
Movie
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
as Self
2022
TV
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
Movie
Other Music
as Self
2019
Movie
Adam Green's Aladdin
as Concerned Townsperson
2016
Movie
Regina Spektor: Live in London
2010
Movie
Hava Nagila: The Movie
as Self
2012
TV
VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
2003
Movie
Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
2017
Movie
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2006
Movie
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
as Self
2006
Movie
The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
as Herself
2004
