Alla Pokrovskaya

{{Short description|Soviet-Russian actress and educator (1937–2019)}}

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Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya ({{langx|ru|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, {{Interlanguage link|Anna Nekrasova|qid=Q60695140}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://24smi.org/celebrity/5026-alla-pokrovskaia.html|title=Алла Покровская|website=24SMI|language=ru|access-date=2019-12-03}}

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,{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2000/film/reviews/july-rain-1200463767/|title=July Rain|last=Young|first=Deborah|date=2000-08-21|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-12-03}}

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

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