Education
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
She was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and grew up in central Ukraine inside the Prokofiev house, before she and her family moved to Leningrad. She graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1964. She was awarded People"s Artist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1988.
Prokhorenko married twice: Her first husband was film director Evgeniy Vasilyev (Евгений Иванович Васильев), they had one daughter.
She died in Moscow on 1 August 2011, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.