YEKATERINA GOLUBEVA - Russo-French Actress

Russian actress Yekaterina Golubeva died in Paris, France, on August 14, 2011.  She was 44.  Golubeva was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, on October 9, 1966.  She began her film career in the mid-1980s, and was originally billed as Katia Golubeva.  She was married to Lithuanian film director Sharunas Bartas, who directed her in "Three Days" (1991) and "Few of Us" (1996).  She moved to Paris after her divorce from Bartas in the 1990s, where she appeared in Claire Denis' "I Can't Sleep" (1994), Leos Carax's "Pola X' (1999) with Guillaume Depardieu, "Twentynine Palms" (2002), and "The Intruder" (2004).