Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – January 26, 2021 – Art & Celebrities
Odessa actress Iryna Tokarchuk died at the age of 62. Viewers remembered her for her bright roles in the Gentleman Show and Mask Show.
Ukrainian and Odessa actress Iryna Tokarchuk died on Monday, January 25. Odessa film critic and film critic Yevhen Zhenin was the first to announce her death. “The bitter news,” he wrote on his Facebook page, “is that Ira Tokarchuk, a good actress and a good old friend, is gone.”
According to him, Iryna Tokarchuk was ill for a long time, and the day before her death she began to have heart pain.
“Yesterday, nothing foretold trouble. Ira cheerfully discussed with her friend what exactly they would raise in a day in honor of Tatiana’s Day: her friend’s name is Tanya. And today Tanin’s husband called an artist in Miami to tell his mutual friends in New York: Ira is gone. A heart attack, “he wrote in another post.
And although most Ukrainian viewers remember Iryna Tokarchuk as Aunt Sima from the sketch show Gentleman Show Odessa Communal Apartment, Odessa theatergoers know Tokarchuk very well. She played for more than two decades in the Odessa Russian Drama Theater and the House of Clowns (Mask Theater). Played in theatrical productions of the Mask Show project Othello, Orpheus and Eurydice, Romeo and Juliet. She played dozens of roles in theater and film.
Colleagues honor the memory of Irina Tokarchuk, sharing memories with her on social networks.
“Iryna Tokarchuk is gone … The talented actress played the lead roles in her favorite Odessa Russian Theater, where she served for 22 years. In cinema, Ira worked on the same set with Oleg Yankovsky, Bohdan Stupka, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Natalia Gundareva, Angelina Stepanova and many others, “Viktor Andrienko wrote.
“I met her 30 years ago during the filming of Wake Up in Shanghai. I was 15 then, and she … only 30 (and the mother of a teenage girl played) “, – wrote the Odessa actor Vlad Maslov.
“You have always been full of energy, optimism, and Odessa humor. Thank you, dear, for giving me so much inspiration and joy of joint work over the years! ”Shared photographer Olena Martyniuk.
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