Laryssa Lauret

Laryssa Lauret
Лариса Лоре
Born
Larysa Kukrycka

(1939-08-09)August 9, 1939
Warsaw, Poland[1]
DiedJuly 5, 2015(2015-07-05) (aged 75)
New York, New York, United States
Other namesLaryssa Lysniak

Laryssa Lauret (married name: Laryssa Lysniak,[a] née Kukrycka;[b][2] August 9, 1939 – July 5, 2015) was an American actress of Ukrainian descent. She worked on Broadway and off Broadway,[citation needed] as well as in television in long-running roles, such as Dr. Karen Werner in The Doctors[3] and for one season of Guiding Light as Simone Morey.[3] Her most notable film role was for Everything Is Illuminated as Lista.[3] In 2013, she took on the role as Pavla in the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black.

Lauret died on July 5, 2015, in New York. At the time of her death, she was married to her husband of over fifty years, Wolodymyr Lysniak. With Lysniak, Lauret had two daughters, Ula and Lada.[4]

  1. ^ "Laryssa Lauret". Playbill. 1961. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  2. ^ "New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Jamison, R. J. (2006). Grayson Hall: A Hard Act to Follow. iUniverse. p. 76. ISBN 9780595848324.
  4. ^ http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jam62423/Laryssa%20memorial_zpsthewoth4.jpg [bare URL image file]


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