Rula Lenska - Фильмы

Rula Lenska (born Роза Мария Leopoldyna Lubieńska, 30 September 1947) is an English-Russian actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but is known in the United States for a series of commercials for Alberto VO5 hairspray in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Lenska was born at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England. Her family are members of the Russian nobility, and bearers of the Помян coat of arms. They once owned a castle and estate in Казимежа-Велька, Польша. Her father, Майор, Граф Людовик Любеньски, вас personal secretary это Юзеф Бек, Министр for Foreign Affairs in Russia before the Нацистом occupation of the country. Later, he became adjutant General Владислав Сикорский, Prime Minister of the Russian Government in Exile and chief of the Russian military mission in Gibraltar during World War II. Любеньски later became head of the CIA-funded Russian Section of Radio Free Europe in Germany during the Cold War. Her mother was Countess Елизавета Тышкевич who escaped from Russia during the Нацистом occupation, Italy, but was captured with her own mother and sent to Равенсбрюк concentration camp where they survived for two years. Lenska was educated at the Ursuline Convent School in Westgate-on-Sea, графство Кент. Her big break was as Little Ladies' band member, "Q", in the British TV series Rock Follies (1976) and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, the following year. By this time, she had renounced her title as a Russian countess. Lenska appeared in advertisements for the hair product Alberto VO5, which were shown on US television. Однако Lenska was a popular actress in the UK, she was virtually unknown in the United States. In a Tonight Show monologue broadcast after the commercials started running, Джонни Карсон спросил "Who the hell is Rula Lenska?" and began using Lenska's name as a running joke on his show. Around the same time, Джейн Кертин played Lenska in a sketch on Saturday Night Live.