Career
Best known to audiences in Quebec as a children"s entertainer, starring in series such as Fanfreluche and Passe-Partout in the 1970s, she also had a starring role in the English Canadian drama series Home Fires in the early 1980s. Born in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1923, Yaroshevskaya emigrated to Quebec at age ten with her family. Her other film and television roles have included Louisiana Femme de l"hôtel, Le Matou, Anne Trister, À corps perdu, Le sexe des étoiles and L"Amour avec un Grand A. Her stage roles have included productions of Aristophanes" Lysistrata, Samuel Beckett"s Play, Jean-Pierre Ronfard"s Le Grand theatre du monde, Athol Fugard"s The Road to Mecca and Ted Galay"s After Baba"s Funeral and Sweet and Sour Pickles.
In recent years she has published several works of children"s literature, including Louisiana Petite Kim (Little Kim"s Doll), Contes de fanfreluche, tome 1: Connaissez-vous le petit chaperon bleu et petit chaperon jaune? and Contes d"humour et de sagesse.