Hanna Yanushevych
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Hanna Yakivna Yanushevych (Ukrainian: Ганна Яківна Янушевич; 14 December 1907 – 25 December 1983) was a Ukrainian actress. Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1946). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1965).[1]
Yanushevych graduated from Kyiv M. Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in 1928.[2]
Career
Since 1927, she played on the stage at the Kyiv I. Franko Theater, then in the Kharkiv State Revolution Theater (1931–1936).[3] In 1940, Yanushevych moved to Chernivtsi, where she worked at Chernivtsi State Ukrainian Drama Theater, formed based on Kharkiv State Revolution Theater (since 1954, Chernivtsi O. Kobylianska Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater)[3] with her husband, actor Petro Mikhnevych. She worked in the theater until her last days.[2]
During her years at the Chernivtsi Drama Theater, Yanushevych created over 200 highly artistic images of the Soviet and classical repertoire. Since 1954, she also starred in films.