Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trokhymivna Prokhorenko (Ukrainian: Жаннета
"Жанна" Трохимівна Прохоренко; Russian:
Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко
/ Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko; 11 May 1940 â€" 1 August
2011) was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known to European and
North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film,
Ballad of a Soldier.She was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and grew up in
central Ukraine inside the Prokofiev house, before she and her family
moved to Leningrad. She graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of
Cinematography in 1964. She was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in
1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and
of the Medal "For Labour Valour". Her granddaughter is actress Maryana
Spivak.Prokhorenko married twice: Her first husband was film director
Evgeniy Vasilyev (Евгений Иванович Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²),
they had one daughter. Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was
murdered in her apartment in 1995: the killer was never found.She died
in Moscow on 1 August 2011, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.
"Жанна" Трохимівна Прохоренко; Russian:
Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко
/ Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko; 11 May 1940 â€" 1 August
2011) was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known to European and
North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film,
Ballad of a Soldier.She was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and grew up in
central Ukraine inside the Prokofiev house, before she and her family
moved to Leningrad. She graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of
Cinematography in 1964. She was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in
1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and
of the Medal "For Labour Valour". Her granddaughter is actress Maryana
Spivak.Prokhorenko married twice: Her first husband was film director
Evgeniy Vasilyev (Евгений Иванович Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²),
they had one daughter. Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was
murdered in her apartment in 1995: the killer was never found.She died
in Moscow on 1 August 2011, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.
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