Lyudmila Gurchenko(1935-2011)
- Actress
- Writer
- Composer
Lyudmila Gurchenko was a popular actress in the Soviet Union during the
1950s - 1980s, she was best known for
Carnival Night (1956), Five
Evenings (1979) and Siberiade (1979).
She was born Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko on 12 November 1935, in
Kharkov, Ukrainian Soviet Republic of the USSR. She studied acting at
the VGIK (Soviet State Institute for CInema), graduating from the class
of Sergey Gerasimov in 1956. That same
year she shot to fame in the Soviet Union, aftr delivering a stellar
performance as singer Lenochka Krylova in
Carnival Night (1956), by
director Eldar Ryazanov.
Gurchenko's film partners were such Russian stars, as
Oleg Borisov, Sergei Shakurov,
Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Basilashvili,
Mikhail Boyarskiy, Igor Ilyinsky,
Yuriy Nikulin, Armen Jigarhanian,
Oleg Tabakov, Stanislav Lubshin,
Andrey Mironov and
Aleksandr Mikhaylov among others.
Lyudmila Gurchenko was married five times and had one daughter with her
first husband, Boris Andronikashvili. She died of a pulmonary failure
on 30 March 2011, at age 75, and was laid to rest in Moscow, Russia.
1950s - 1980s, she was best known for
Carnival Night (1956), Five
Evenings (1979) and Siberiade (1979).
She was born Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko on 12 November 1935, in
Kharkov, Ukrainian Soviet Republic of the USSR. She studied acting at
the VGIK (Soviet State Institute for CInema), graduating from the class
of Sergey Gerasimov in 1956. That same
year she shot to fame in the Soviet Union, aftr delivering a stellar
performance as singer Lenochka Krylova in
Carnival Night (1956), by
director Eldar Ryazanov.
Gurchenko's film partners were such Russian stars, as
Oleg Borisov, Sergei Shakurov,
Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Basilashvili,
Mikhail Boyarskiy, Igor Ilyinsky,
Yuriy Nikulin, Armen Jigarhanian,
Oleg Tabakov, Stanislav Lubshin,
Andrey Mironov and
Aleksandr Mikhaylov among others.
Lyudmila Gurchenko was married five times and had one daughter with her
first husband, Boris Andronikashvili. She died of a pulmonary failure
on 30 March 2011, at age 75, and was laid to rest in Moscow, Russia.