Irina Voronina (born December 19, 1977) is an American entertainer. Born in Dzerzhinsk in Russia, she moved to Los Angeles in summer 1999 and subsequently posed for several magazines including Playboy, who made her Playboy Playmate of the month for January 2001. She subsequently acted in multiple films and TV series and spent a year on tour as 2008's St. Pauli Girl Beer spokesmodel. In early 2015, she began a career as a stand-up comedian and subsequently published a comedy album, From Russia With Laughs.
Voronina was born on December 19,[1] 1977,[2] in Dzerzhinsk, the center of Russia's chemical production industry and one of the world's most polluted cities.[3][4] She worked for some years in her home country as a photographer and ball decorator[5] and spent time living in Switzerland, Germany,[6]Madrid, and Milan. She subsequently moved from the last of these to Los Angeles in summer 1999[5][7] and subsequently became a US citizen.[8] While in Los Angeles,[7] she posed for Perfect 10 and for Playboy;[5] the latter made her Playmate of the Month in January 2001,[9] for which she posed nude.[4] Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.[8] She subsequently spent time living in the Playboy Mansion[6] and appeared in an international edition of the magazine.[10]
Voronina appeared in two episodes of the first series of HBO's Entourage in 2004. She has stated that she was fired from the show for standing up to sexual harassment from the cast.[11][12] She then appeared in the 2005 Playmates at Play at the Playboy Mansion swimsuit calendar, the firm's first.[13] In May 2005, she was photographed by Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman in the suite of the PalmsCasino Resort in Las Vegas, which appeared in Playboy Cyber Club.[14] Goodman's pictorial annoyed the then-Nevada Republican Party vice chair Richard Ziser, who demanded his resignation.[15] She also modelled for Maxim, Ocean, Shape, Knockout, and the Australian edition of People.[16]
In December 2010,[21] Voronina featured in a Tron: Legacy inspired photoshoot for Playboy photographed by Jared Ryder and illustrated by Nigel Evan Dennis. Also featuring Brazilian model Sasckya Porto[22] and filmed in Miami, Game On featured the pair nude and painted blue and orange.[21] Voronina subsequently appeared in the music video for the 2014 Fozzy track "Do You Want to Start a War".[23] She begun performing stand-up comedy in early 2015[24] and subsequently published the comedy album From Russia With Laughs. By 2017, she had acted in the indie filmScramble and was performing stand-up comedy several times a month in Los Angeles.[8] By 2020, she had also had a supporting role in Killing Hasselhoff.[25]
Since 2015, she has regularly been named as a plaintiff in class action lawsuits alleging the misappropriation of her image. These include a strip club in Long Island in New York in October 2015,[26] a strip club in Tampa in Florida in November 2016;[27] a strip club in San Antonio in Texas in April 2017;[28] three strip clubs in northeast Ohio in September 2018;[29] a nightclub in Wichita Falls in Texas in February 2019;[30] a nightclub in Springfield in Massachusetts in July 2019;[31] a gentlemen's club in Colonie in New York in January 2020;[25] a strip club in Houston in February 2021;[16] various clubs in Florida in October 2021;[32] two clubs in Philadelphia in October 2022;[33] a swinger's club in Portland in Oregon in August 2023;[34] and another strip club in San Antonio in November 2024. According to the last of these, she had been Kandy magazine's Model of the Year in 2013 and had modelled for Playboy in 20 countries.[35]
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