Alla Pokrovskaya Explained

Alla Pokrovskaya
Birth Date:18 September 1937
Birth Place:Moscow
Death Place:Moscow
Resting Place:Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Occupation:actress
Children:Mikhail Yefremov[1]
Nationality:Russian

Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya (Russian: А́лла Бори́совна Покро́вская; 18 September 1937  - 25 June 2019) was a Soviet-Russian actress and educator.

Life

Pokrovskaya was born in Moscow her father was the opera director Boris Pokrovsky and her mother, was the director of the Central Children's Theatre. Her parents' did not encourage or rate her acting talents. She initially decided to be a teacher but then went into acting. She studied at the Moscow Art Theater School and in her spare time she volunteered as a stage hand for Oleg Efremov's theatre. Whilst there where she saw Igor Kvasha, Galina Volchek and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev perform at the Sovremennik Theatre. She graduated in 1959.[2]

Pokrovskaya was a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She was married to actor Oleg Yefremov. Pokrovskaya was known for her roles in Take Aim, Fox Hunting and July Rain,[3]

One of her last films was Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive where she appeared as Vladimir Vysotsky's mother.

Pokrovskaya died on 25 June 2019 at a Moscow hospital due to sepsis caused by liver disease, aged 81.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1967July Rain Lelya Kurikhina
1969Mine Tatyana
1975Diary of a School Director Lida
1975Take Aim Tanya
1976Family Melodrama teacher
1978Namesake Alja
1980Fox Hunting Olga Sergeyevna
1984Third in the Fifth Row Vera Matveevna
1984The Tale of Tsar Saltan weavervoice
1988Self-Portrait of an Unknown Ryabov's mother
2011Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive mother of Vladimir Vysotskyfinal film role

Notes and References

  1. http://culturavrn.ru/person/1789 Михаил Ефремов в Воронеже признался в любви к Андрею Платонову
  2. Web site: Алла Покровская. 24SMI. ru. 2019-12-03.
  3. Web site: July Rain. Young. Deborah. 2000-08-21. Variety. en. 2019-12-03.