Trivia

Some of the actors she has worked with, as an acting coach and teacher, during her 25-plus year career include Academy Award winners and nominees: Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Terence Howard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Kate Hudson, Jon Voight and Djimon Hounsou. Virtually every year, Ivana's students are well represented at the Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, Tonys, and many other international awards. For the 2006 Academy Awards, Ivana's students were nominated in every acting category: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

In October of 2004 Penguin Books published Ivana's book, The Power of the Actor. The book became an instant success, spending weeks on the Los Angeles Times top ten Bestsellers List. For more than a year it was the number one selling book about acting at Barnes and Noble. Currently her book is being adopted for use as a textbook in many colleges and universities across the country, as well as being translated into a number of languages around the world.

Acting and dialogue coach.

Trained Beyoncé, Jake Gyllenhaal and Charlize Theron.

She has also been a guest master teacher at The Juilliard School of Drama in New York, teaching a selected group of premiere fourth year students.

Honored by The Russian International Film Festival (she is of Russian decent) with a lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the film industry, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, William Friedkin and Francis Ford Coppola.

She has been featured in numerous articles in such national publications as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, People, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Premiere, Spin, The London Times, The London Guardian, Elle and Movieline, as well as in periodicals in Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Australia, Japan, and Spain. Ivana has also been profiled on Entertainment Tonight (1981), Flash-TV, MTV, "Today Show Australia", CBC, NPR, VH-1, E! and the BBC.