“Olga Kataeva died today,” RIA Novosti quotes the theater’s Facebook message.

The cause of death was reported to be a severe illness.

Kataeva is best known for her roles in the films Ballerina of the Political Department (1981), Anonymous Letter (1983) and Anxious Sunday (1983).

Earlier it became known about the death at the age of 84 of the Honored Artist of the RSFSR, the leading artist of the Lenkom Theater Mark Zakharov, Boris Chunaev.