Laryssa Lauret (married name: Laryssa Lysniak,[a] née Kukrycka;[b][2] August 9, 1939 – July 5, 2015) was an American actress of Ukrainian descent.
She worked on Broadway and off Broadway,[citation needed] as well as in television in long-running roles, such as Dr. Karen Werner in The Doctors[3] and for one season of Guiding Light as Simone Morey.
[3] In 2013, she took on the role as Pavla in the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black.
At the time of her death, she was married to her husband of over fifty years, Wolodymyr Lysniak.
With Lysniak, Lauret had two daughters, Ula and Lada.