[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Aleksandra Asmaye was born in Kaliningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. as Aleksandra Evgenievna Ivanes on July 2, 1957. She was a theater and film actress. As a child she was taught dancing and later studied violin at a music school. In 1978 she graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema. She began her film career in 1980 with an appearance as Tamara in the Russian film “Ekipazh”. She derived her stage name Aleksandra Yakovleva from the surname of her grandfather.
In 1993 she left the cinema and until 1997 and began her career in politics. She was named chairman of the committee on culture and tourism of the city of Kaliningrad.
In May 2019, Yakovleva announced that she has been battling stage IV breast cancer for the last two years. At some point of battling the illness, she was unable to speak and walk. The cancer later metastasized to her brain, but she was in stable condition and the tumor stopped growing. In January 2022, it has been announced that she was recovering from brain surgery. On April 1, 2022, Yakovleva died at the age of 64 in Saint Petersburg, five years after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Asmaye was married three times and had a daughter named Elizaveta Kukhareshina born in 1977 and a son named Kondraty Yakovlev born in 1980.
In her only Euro-western she played the role of Ms. Diana Little in “A Man from Boulevard Capucines” in 1987. Here she put her dance training to good use performing a dance for tlocal townsfolk.
ASMAYE, Aleksandra (aka Aleksandra Evgenievna Yakovleva) (Aleksandra Evgenievna Ivanes) [7/2/1957, Kaliningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. – 4/1/2022, St. Petersburg, Russia (breast cancer)] – theater, film actress, politician, married to journalist Aleksandr Nevzorovy (Alexander Glebovich Nevzorov) [1958- ], married to actor Valeri Kukhareshin (Valery Aleksandrovich Kukhareshin) [1957- ] (197?-198?) mother of Elizaveta Kukhareshina. [1977- ], Kondraty Yakovlev [1980- ], married to sports figure Kalyu Aasmyae (198?- ).
A Man from Boulevard Capucines – 1987 (Ms. Diana Little)
She looks like Blanche Devereaux from "The Golden Girls" if she had blonde hair.
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