Biography
Olga Barnet (1951–2021) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She was the daughter of film director Boris Barnet and actress Alla Kazanskaya. Barnet graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in 1972 and joined the Moscow Art Theatre that year, remaining a member of the troupe for nearly five decades.
She made her screen debut as Kris Kelvin's mother in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972). Barnet appeared in a small number of other films, including The Flight of Mr. McKinley (1975) and Takeoff (1979). In 1998 she was named a People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
