Anastasia Valentinovna Voznesenskaya (Russian: Анастасия Валентиновна Вознесе́нская; 27 July 1943 – 14 January 2022) was a Russian actress of theater and cinema and People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1997).

Early life and career

Voznesenskaya was born on 27 July 1943 in Moscow, and studied at the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1965, after graduating from the Studio School, Voznesenskaya was accepted into the troupe of the Sovremennik Theater. After Oleg Yefremov left Sovremennik, she followed him to the Moscow Art Theater.

She made her film debut in 1965, she became widely known for the main female role in the popular film Major Whirlwind.

The last time she appeared on the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater together with her husband, actor Andrey Myagkov, was in May 2013 in the play White Rabbit.

Personal life and death

Voznesenskaya was married to the actor Andrey Myagkov from 1963 until his death in 2021. At the end of December 2021, Voznesenskaya tested positive for COVID-19. She died from the disease in Moscow on 14 January 2022, at the age of 78.

Selected filmography

• No Password Necessary (1967) as Sashenyka Gavrilina
• Major Whirlwind (1967) as Anya
• To Love (1968) as Girl with a globe
• Adam and Eve (1969) as Ishat
• The Garage (1979) as Anna Alekseevna Kushakova, Market Director
• Station for Two (1983) as Yuliya
• Crash – Cop's Daughter (1989) as Vera Nikolayeva, Valeria's mother