Anna Lisyanskaya born Hanna Hryhorivna Lysyanska (1 November 1917 - 2 December 1999) was a Ukrainian and Russian theater and film actress of Jewish origin.
[1] Mother Sofia Dyshlis and fraternal aunt Dora Lysyanska were actresses of this theater since 1913, and began their stage career in 1912 in Kherson in the troupe of Ivan Koryk.
In 1938, she was invited to the troupe of the Kyiv Molodyy Theater, where she played Juliet in William Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Yulenka in The Profitable Place by Alexander Ostrovsky, Yelena in A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, and other roles.
In 1993, Lysyanska became seriously ill, and with the support of her close friend, actress Lilian Malkina, she moved to Israel to live with her relatives.
On the monument on her grave, there are inscriptions in Russian and Hebrew: "To the Actress of the theater and cinema Hanna Lysyanskaya from fans."