Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trokhymivna Prokhorenko (11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier. Prokhorenko married twice: Her first husband was film director Evgeniy Vasilyev, they had one daughter. Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was murdered in her apartment in 1995: the killer was never found. She died in Moscow on 1 August 2011, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.

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