Ingus Kniploks

Ingus was born in Kuldīga, but spent his childhood in Ēdole parish. As he says himself, he is a Kurzeme man through and through. Ingus graduated from the Ogre Forestry Technical School and only after that decided to apply to the Academy of Culture. Having already graduated from the Dramatic Theatre Acting program at the LCA (2007), Ingus found out that precisely such a path to art – the Ogre Technical School and then the Theatre Faculty of the Conservatory – had once also been chosen by Gunārs Cilinskis. After working for two years in Liepāja, Ingus became an actor at the Valmiera Theatre (2009).

The character of a Kurzeme man can also be felt in Ingus’s acting – all his characters are characterized by a reserved nature, a shell meant for the eyes of others, through which true feelings break with difficulty: whether it be Christopher, broken by a despotic father (Wine and Weeds), Doctor Khrushchev, full of big dreams but ridiculous in the eyes of others (The Woodsman), or Nathan, who never became a superhuman (The Rope). Like many actors endowed with a sense of humor and self-irony, Ingus flourishes when it is possible to hide behind a vivid character and rely on fantasy: that is how the lovely mouse boy Šoma (All Mice Love Cheese) is born, quite fearful and quite reckless, or the maniacal Lush (The Hothouse).