Lyubov Grigoryevna Polishchuk (; 21 May 1949 – 28 November 2006) was a popular

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. She was born in the Siberian city of

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. After school she decided to become an actress and moved to

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. She made her debut in cinema in 1976 in the popular comedy film The Twelve Chairs, which was directed by Mark Zakharov. Lyubov Polishchuk died of

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in Moscow in 2006, aged 57. She was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.

Selected filmography

* '' The Twelve Chairs'' (1976) as dancer * ''Golden Mine'' (1978) as Larisa Kovalyova * '' 31 June'' (1978, TV Movie) as Miss Quinn, hostess of ''The black horse * '' The Very Same Munchhausen'' (1979, TV Movie) as Bertha, songstress * '' Babylon XX'' (1980) as Malva * '' I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death'' (1980) as Vera Sergeevna * '' Secret of the Black Birds'' (1983) as Adele Fortescue * '' Snake Catcher'' (1986) as Vera * '' The Christians'' (1987) as Pelageya Karaulova * '' Intergirl'' (1989) as Zina Meleyko, prostitute * '' The Initiated'' (1989) as Mother * '' Love with Privileges'' (1989) as Irina Vasilyevna Nikolaeva * '' My Seawoman'' (1990) as lambada dancer * ''The Recruiter'' (1991) as Zina * '' Shirli-Myrli'' (1995) as Jennifer, USA Ambassador's wife * ''Chivalric Romance'' (2000, TV Movie) as Irene Doukaina * '' Still Waters'' (2000) as Pauline, Kashtanov's wife * '' My Fair Nanny'' (2004-2009, TV Series) as Lyubov Grigorevna Prutkovskaya * '' Star of the Era'' (2005, TV Mini-Series) as Plavnikova * ''Kill Carp'' (2005) as Lydia Mikhailovna

Honours and awards

People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an honorary and the highest title awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation ...

(1994) * Honoured Artist of Russia (1986) * People's Artist of the Republic of Karelia (

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) (2007)

References

External links

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