Anna Samokhina

Anna Vladlenovna Samokhina (; 14 January 1963 – 8 February 2010 ) was a Russian actress. Samokhina started her film career in the 1980s and quickly became popular due to her talent, beauty and charm. She is best known as the leading actress in Yuri Kara's Barons of Crime (rus. Воры в законе ), a most outlandish, brutal and controversial Soviet film, about mafia and corruption in the late USSR.

Personal Life and Career 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.

The actress was married twice. From her first marriage, she had a daughter, Alexandra, who later became an actress too.

Illness and Death 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 on 8 February 2010 in a hospital in Saint Petersburg.

Selected filmography 1988: The Prisoner of Château d'If as Mercedes 1988: Barons of Crime as Rita 1989: Don César de Bazan as Maritana 1990: Frenzied Bus as Tamara Fotaki 1992: Detonator as She 1993: Angelica's Passion as Angelica Kudrina 1994: The Wheel of Love as Ekaterina L'vovna 1996: Train to Brooklyn as Vera 1999: Chinese Tea-Set as Zinaida Voloshina 1999: Streets of Broken Lights as Larisa 2010: In the Style of Jazz as wife of Viktor Ivanovich