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Nevena Kokanova

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 1295552

IMDb ID: nm0463684

Known for: Acting

Born: December 12, 1938

Died: June 3, 2000

Age: 61

Place of birth: Dupnitsa, Bulgaria

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1957 - 1993

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.64

Wikidata: Q7003844

Also known as

Невена Богданова Коканова • Невена Коканова

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Biography

Nevena Kokanova (Bulgarian: Невена Коканова) (12 December 1938 – 3 June 2000) was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner. Kokanova was born in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria and is most renowned for her role as Lisa in The Peach Thief. She started her career at 18 as an apprentice actor with the Yambol Theater in Yambol, Bulgaria. In 1975 she was a member of the jury at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1980 she starred in and co-directed Three Deadly Sins with Lyubomir Sharlandzhiev. She died in Sofia.

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