Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko (, ; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011)Death notice (Russian)
Retrieved 3 August 2011. was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film '' Ballad of a Soldier''.

Life and career

Prokhorenko was born in

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, and grew up in central Ukraine inside the Prokofiev house, before she and her family moved to Leningrad. She graduated from the

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in 1964. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the

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and of the

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. Her granddaughter is actress Maryana Spivak.

Personal life and death

Prokhorenko married twice, first to film director Yevgeny Vasilyev with whom she had one daughter, Ekaterina. Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was murdered in her apartment in 1995. The killer was never found. Sixteen years after that tragedy, in 2011, Prokhorenko died at age 71 from undisclosed causes.

Selected filmography

* '' Ballad of a Soldier'' (1959) * '' But What If This Is Love'' (1961) * '' Going Inside a Storm'' (1964) * '' Attack and Retreat'' (1964) * '' Balzaminov's Marriage'' (1964) * ''

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'' (1964) * '' An Incident that no one noticed'' (1967) * '' The Red Snowball Tree'' (1974) * '' From Dawn Till Sunset'' (1975) * ''

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'' (1977) * '' TASS Is Authorized to Declare...'' (1984) * ''

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'' (1989) * '' Entrance to the Labyrinth'' (1989)

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References

1940 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Russian actresses 21st-century Russian actresses Actors from Poltava Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the RSFSR Russian people of Ukrainian descent Russian film actresses Soviet film actresses {{USSR-actor-stub