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Zhanna Prokhorenko and co-star Vladimir Ivashov in Ballad of a Soldier |
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| Born | Zhanneta Trofymovna Prokhorenko 11 May 1940 Poltava, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Died | 1 August 2011 (aged 71) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1959–2002 |
Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofymovna Prokhorenko (Ukrainian: Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимівна Прохоренко; Russian: Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011)[1] was a Ukrainian-born Soviet-era actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier.
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She was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and grew up in central Ukraine 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.
Prokhorenko married twice: Her first husband was film director Evgeniy Vasilyev (Евгений Иванович Васильев), they had one daughter actress Ekaterina Vasiyeva (the mother of Russian actress Mariana Spivak). Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was murdered in 1995.
She died in Moscow on 1 August 2011, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.