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| Ruslana Pysanka | |
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| Born | (1965-11-17)17 November 1965 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 19 July 2022(2022-07-19) (aged 56) Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1994–2022 |
Ruslana Igorivna Pysanka (Template:Lang-uk; born Ruslana Ihorivna Pysanka; 17 November 1965 – 19 July 2022) was a Ukrainian actress and cinematographer. She became a national star after working as lead presenter of the weather forecast on the Inter channel.
Life and career
Pysanka was born in Kyiv on 17 November 1965, the daughter of the Soviet cinematographer Ihor Pysanko. She studied at the directing department of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture, graduating as television director. She participated in the televiosion program Women's Club. She was TV anchor on different national channels, including programs Dancing with Stars from 2006. From 2008, she hosted the program Official Romance together with Volodymyr Zelenskyi, and in 2010, she took part in the TV show Zirka + Zirka In 2017, she participated with her husband, Igor Isakov, in the 7th season of Weighed and Happy as a married couple. She then became lead presenter of the weather forecast alongside Alexei Diveev-Tserkovny on the Inter channel, which made her known. She hosted the show Your Day.
She started acting as a side career but quickly gained popularity because of her distinct look, receiving roles in several well-known films in Ukraine, the Netherlands, Poland and Russia.. She received the Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine for her role in the film Moskal the Magician, and was awarded the Order of St. Volodymyr.
Pysanka was married to Igor Isakov, a businessman, from 2012. At the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she escaped to Germany. There, she was diagnosed with a "serious illness".
Pysanka died in Kaiserslautern on 19 July 2022, at age 56.
Selected filmography
Source:
- 1995 – Moskal-Charivnyk as Tetyana
- 1999 – With Fire and Sword as Horpyna
- 2012 – Rzhevsky versus Napoleon as Madame Golovina
References
- ^ "Ruslana Pysanka died". censor.net. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Actress and TV presenter Ruslana Pysanka dies". imi.org.ua. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- Stone, Teilor (18 July 2022). "Ruslana Pysanka told an interesting story of meeting her husband". The Saxon. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- "Померла Руслана Писанка". tsn.ua (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2022.
- Dick, Rainer (19 July 2022). "Schauspielerin Ruslana Pysanka mit 56 Jahren in Kaiserslautern gestorben: Sie drehte mit Selenskyj – Nachruf". Die Rheinpfalz (in German). Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- "Ruslana Pysanka". csfd.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 20 July 2022.
External links
- Ruslana Pysanka at IMDb
- Ruslana Pysanka discography at Discogs
- 1965 births
- 2022 deaths
- Ukrainian film actresses
- Ukrainian television actresses
- Actors from Kyiv
- 20th-century Ukrainian actresses
- Film people from Kyiv
- Laureates of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize
- 21st-century Ukrainian actresses
- Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University alumni