Tatyana Protsenko was born on 8 April 1968 in
Moscow,
USSR. Her father was the chief of the documentary film directorate of
Goskino USSR, and her mother was an air traffic controller at the Moscow international airport
Vnukovo. An assistant to film director
Leonid Nechayev was looking for an actress to undertake the part of Malvina in a fairytale film, later to be released as
The Adventures of Buratino. The assistant spotted the then five-year-old Tatyana on a train and invited her to take part in the casting. Tatyana agreed and was awarded the role after casting. Tatyana Protsenko died of cancer on May 19, 2021 in Moscow, after fighting the disease for three years. Although she only appeared in one film during her acting career, the news of her death was reported by major Russian mass media and spread across social media. Tatyana Protsenko was survived by her husband and two children. == References ==