Occupation Actress Children Alexandra Samokhina Role Actress | Name Anna Samokhina Years active 1982–2010 | |
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Full Name Anna Vladlenovna Podgornaya Spouse Dmitry Konorov (m. 1994–2001), Aleksandr Samokhin (m. 1979–1994) Parents Anna Podgornaya, Vladlen Podgorniy Similar People Alla Dovlatova, Irina Alfyorova, Lyubov Polishchuk, Arnis Licitis |
Анна Самохина. Прощание
Анна Самохина (Anna Samokhina) R.I.P.
Anna Vladlenovna Samokhina (Russian: Анна Владленовна Самохина; 14 January 1963 – 8 February 2010,) was a Russian actress. Samokhina started her film career in 1980s and quickly became popular due to high talent, beauty and charm. She is best known as the leading actress in Yuri Kara's Barons of Crime (rus. Воры в законе, literally Thieves within the Law) - the most outgiving, brutal and controversial Soviet film, about mafia and corruption in the late USSR.
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At the end of the 1990s, Samokhina stopped working in cinema, focusing primarily on her private life and restaurant business. In 2008, she returned to cinema and participated in several pictures.

In November 2009, Anna Samokhina was diagnosed with stomach cancer at a late stage. Until 1 February 2010, Russian press and many actors in country did not know that her illness was very serious. She died at 8 February 2010 in a hospital in Saint Petersburg.




