| Irina Voronina | |
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 Irina Voronina, Los Angeles, CA on October 1, 2011 | |
| Playboy centerfold appearance | |
| January 2001 | |
| Preceded by | Cara Michelle |
| Succeeded by | Lauren Michelle Hill |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 19, 1977 Dzerzhinsk, Russia |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Irina Voronina (born December 19, 1977) is a Russian-American actress, stand-up comedian, and model. She was Playboy Playmate of the month for January 2001.
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, the latter in summer 1999. While in the latter, [5] [7] she posed for Perfect 10 and for Playboy ; [5] the latter made her Playmate of the Month in January 2001, [8] for which she posed nude. [4] Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. [9] 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 Oscar Goodman in the suite of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, which appeared in Playboy Cyber Club. [14] Goodman's pictorial annoyed Richard Ziser, who demanded his resignation. [15] In 2007, Voronina appeared as Fallopia in several episodes of the Adult Swim show Saul of the Mole Men. [16] [17] She spent the following year on a PR tour as 2008's St. Pauli Girl Beer spokesmodel. [18] As part of the campaign, she rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. [19] That year, she played a bailiff on DirecTV's Supreme Court of Comedy, a show in which comedians judged real-life disputes. [6]
By November 2009, she had advertised Michelob Ultra, SKYY vodka, and Miller Lite and had appeared on the TV series Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Chelsea Lately, Howard Stern on Demand, Mad TV, and Punk'd and in the films Reno 911!: Miami, Epic Movie, [18] and Balls of Fury. [3] That month, it was announced that she had been booked for a Mötley Crüe video. [18] Voronina appeared in the music video for the 2014 Fozzy track "Do You Want to Start a War". [20] By 2017, she had acted in the indie film Scramble and published the comedy album From Russia With Laughs; [9] by 2020, she had also had a supporting role in Killing Hasselhoff. [21]
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, [22] a strip club in Tampa in Florida in November 2016; [23] a strip club in San Antonio in Texas in April 2017; [24] three strip clubs in northeast Ohio in September 2018; [25] a nightclub in Wichita Falls in Texas in February 2019; [26] a nightclub in Springfield in Massachusetts in July 2019; [27] a gentlemen's club in Colonie in New York in January 2020; [21] a strip club in Houston in February 2021; [28] various clubs in Florida in October 2021; [29] two clubs in Philadelphia in October 2022; [30] a swinger's club in Portland in Oregon in August 2023; [31] 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 posed for Maxim, People, Max, Ocean, and Knockout, and had modelled for Playboy in 20 countries. [32]
Her other feature film credits include 2012's Piranha 3DD as Kiki, and 2015's Lazer Team . [33] In 2010, she appeared in an episode of iCarly entitled "iSell Penny Tees". Voronina had a supporting role in HDNet's TV series Svetlana . In 2018, she appeared in an episode of 13 Reasons Why .
As of 2015, Voronina has performed as a stand-up comedian throughout Los Angeles and surrounding areas. In 2018, Voronina was chosen to perform at the Comedy Festivals of San Diego, Joshua Tree, Palm Springs, Burbank and Orange County, as well as Los Angeles' LaughRiot Grrrl. In August, 2019, her television stand-up debut aired on the second season of Amazon Prime Video's Laugh After Dark.
In 2021, she made it to the top 8 of the Comedy Therapy Comedy Invitational, where she was beat by fellow comedian AC Cacace, who went on to place second.
Voronina is married. She is a naturalized U.S. citizen. [9]
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