Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko (Russian: Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко, Ukrainian: Жаннета "Жанна" Трохимівна Прохоренко; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011)[1] was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier.

She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour".

[2] Prokhorenko married twice, first to film director Yevgeny Vasilyev with whom she had one daughter.

Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was murdered in her apartment in 1995.

[3] Sixteen years after that tragedy, in 2011, Prokhorenko died at age 71 from undisclosed causes.