Laryssa Lauret
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About
Laryssa Lauret, born Laryssa Kukrycka on August 9, 1939, in Warsaw, Poland, was an American actress of Ukrainian descent who built a career spanning Broadway, off-Broadway, television, and film. She performed on Broadway between 1961 and 1970, and her stage credits include The Night of the Iguana, Paris Is Out!, and Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe. She later took the married name Laryssa Lysniak.
Television provided Lauret with some of her most sustained work. She portrayed Dr. Karen Werner Aldrich on The Doctors from 1967 to 1975, and appeared on Guiding Light as Simone Kincaid during the 1977–78 season. Her screen career also included a role as Ingrid in the 1964 production The Parisienne and the Prudes.
Among her film appearances, Lauret played Lista in Everything Is Illuminated, a role she considered her most notable film work. She also appeared in Gods Behaving Badly. In 2013, she joined the cast of the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black in the role of Pavla.
Lauret died on July 5, 2015, in New York. At the time of her death, she had been married to Wolodymyr Lysniak for more than fifty years. The couple had two daughters, Ula and Lada.
Personal Details
- Born
- August 9, 1939
- Hometown
- Warsaw, POLAND
- Died
- July 5, 2015
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