Marianna Yablonskaya

Marianna Yablonskaya (Russian: Марианна Викторовна Яблонская) (1938–1980) is a Soviet writer, playwright, Soviet theater actress and theater director. She was an actress in Mayakovsky Theater and the Lensoviet Academic Theatre. She wrote 11 plays and 2 books of short stories. Her most notable role in theater is Negina in "Talents and Admirers" by Alexander Ostrovsky, staged by Maria Knebel at the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow.

Marianna Yablobskaya was born in Leningrad in 1938 in the family of Viktor Yablonsky/ Виктор Яблонский, a Moscow Art Theater actor and director. In 1959 she graduated from A. N. Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatrical Institute, L. F. Makarev's course. She was one of the leading actors of Lensoveta Theater in Leningrad. Yablobskaya's most famous play, "Plush Monkey in a Crib" ("The Role") was staged at the Gogol Theater in Moscow.