Inga Petrowna Oboldina

Inga Petrovna Strelkova-Oboldina (Russian: Инга Петровна Стрелкова-Оболдина ; born 23 December 1968) is a Russian theatre and film actress.

Oboldina was born in the small Ural town of Kyshtym, into a family of engineers. After high school, she studied at the faculty of theatrical directing at the Institute of Culture and Art in Chelyabinsk. In the process of studying Inga Petrovna discovered her acting skills and started playing on stage. During the fourth course of study, Inga Oboldina married her classmate Garold Strelkov and took a double surname – Strelkova-Oboldina. After graduating from university with a red diploma, she remained at the institute to teach at the department of scenic speech. Two years later, she and her husband moved to Moscow. In Moscow, Strelkova-Oboldina entered the GITIS – (RATI) (workshop of Pyotr Fomenko). On November 6, 1996, she played in the premiere of Gerold Strelkov's play Sakhalin Wife at the recently opened Strelkov Theatre.

In 1998, Inga Strelkova-Oboldina was offered a role in the TV series Samozvantsy.

On 21 December 2012 she gave birth to a daughter, Clara, from the St. Petersburg actor and director Vitaly Saltykov.