France
Olga Poliakoff, known as Olga Varen (also known as: Olga de Poliakoff, Olga Poliakoff-Baïdaroff, Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff, Olga Ken), born May 5, 1928 in Pančevo (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) and died September 2, 2009 in Villejuif, was a French film actress and television director.
She was the eldest of the four "Poliakoff sisters", alongside Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Marina Vlady.
Her father, Vladimir de Poliakoff, was an opera singer, and her mother, Militza Envald, a prima ballerina. Vladimir de Poliakoff arrived in France in 1915, enlisting to fight against the German Empire. Driven by her anarchist convictions, Militza Envald joined him in 1919, fleeing the consequences of the 1917 revolution.
Although both members of the Russian provincial nobility, Vladimir de Poliakoff and Militza Envald experienced economic difficulties in France, where the husband worked as a laborer with four children to support.
They had four daughters, all devoted to show business and known as singers under the name of the Poliakoff Sisters.
According to the weekly Paris Match, dated June 11, 1955, the initial V common to all four pseudonyms (Varen, Versois, Vallier and Vlady) is the V of victory.
In 1971, alongside Marina Vlady, she signed the Manifeste des 343.
Among her television credits, she was one of the directors of the Antenne 2 news program in the 1970s[3].
Olga lived in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine.
