Kim Yaroshevskaya
Kim Yaroshevskaya was 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 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 included A Woman in Transit , The Alley Cat , Anne Trister, Sonia, Straight for the Heart , The Sex of the Stars and L'Amour avec un Grand A. Her stage roles included productions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Samuel Beckett's Play, Jean-Pierre Ronfard's Le Grand théâtre du monde, Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca and Ted Galay's After Baba's Funeral and Sweet and Sour Pickles.In later years, she published several works of children's literature, including La Petite Kim, 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.
Honours
Yaroshevskaya was nominated for an ACTRA Award in 1981 for her role in Home Fires. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1991, and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.In 2017 she was appointed to the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec.