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Kim Yaroshevskaya, CM (born 1 October 1923) is a Russian-born Canadian film, television and stage actress. 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.

Background

Born in Moscow, Soviet Union, Kim Yaroshevskaya (her forename is actually the acronym of the International Communist Youth organization in Russian, KIM)emigrated to Quebec at age ten with her family. In the 1950s, she was a founding member of the Quebec theatre collective Théâtre Le Grenier, with whom she created Fanfreluche.

Career

Her other film and television roles have included A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel), The Alley Cat (Le Matou), Anne Trister, Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu), The Sex of the Stars (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 La 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. In November 2017, Yaroshevskaya, then aged 94, released her biography, Mon voyage en Amérique.

On 1 October 2023, she celebrated her 100th birthday.

Honours

She was nominated for an ACTRA Award in 1981 for her role in Home Fires. She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1991.

References

1. "Immigrants take the stage to relate their success stories". The Gazette, 12 April 1991.
2. Wayne Grady, "We'll Keep a Welcome". TV Guide Canada, 8 November 1980.
3. Profile, thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Accessed 8 November 2024.
4. "Une Moscovite bien de chez nous!" Photo-Journal, 17 November 1962.
5. "Lvsistrata as musical comedy". The Globe and Mail, 4 June 1969.
6. "Mechanical means are Beckett's downfall". The Globe and Mail, 8 May 1975.
7. "Spanish influences remarkable in ambitious Ronfard production". The Gazette, 17 January 1989.
8. "La Chemin de la Mecque is superb, searing Fugard". The Gazette, 27 January 1990.
9. "Galay's double offering a single delight". The Globe and Mail, 5 February 1981.
10. "Yaroshevskaya, K., & McDougall, C. (1999, Dec 10). Little kim's doll". CM : An Electronic Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People, 6.
11. "Kim Yaroshevskaya dans l’oeil de la mémoire". Le Devoir, 18 November 2017.
12. Pierre MacDuff, "Merci, madame Yaroshevskaya". Le Devoir, 30 September 2023.
13. "Nominees announced for ACTRAs". The Globe and Mail, 13 March 1981.
14. Order of Canada Citation: Kim Yaroshevskaya. Governor General of Canada, 30 April 2009.

External links

• Kim Yaroshevskaya at IMDb

• 1923 births
• Living people
• Actresses from Montreal
• Actresses from Moscow
• Canadian children's television personalities
• Canadian children's writers in French
• Canadian women children's writers
• Canadian film actresses
• Canadian stage actresses
• Canadian television actresses
• Members of the Order of Canada
• Television personalities from Montreal
• Soviet emigrants to Canada
• Writers from Montreal
• Writers from Moscow
• Canadian women television personalities
• Russian women centenarians
• Canadian women centenarians