Oksana Vasylivna Batko-Nyshchuk (27 September 1973 – 7 October 2016) was a Ukrainian actress. She was a Merited Artist of Ukraine and the wife of actor and politician Yevhen Nyshchuk.
Biography Batko-Nyshchuk was born on 27 September 1973 in Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. She graduated from Kolomyia Secondary School No. 1 and studied at the Faculty of Theatre Arts of the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University.
Her first major role was that of Mavka in a production of The Forest Song by Lesya Ukrainka. She joined the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in 1993.
On 7 October 2016, her husband Yevhen Nyshchuk announced that Batko-Nyshchuk had died. She died in her sleep. A memorial ceremony was held at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv. She was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.
Theatre roles
Mavka – The Forest Song by Lesya Ukrainka Monkey – Ostrihai'sia leva by Yaroslav Stelmakh Irina – Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov Renée – Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima Mavra – Brate Chichikov, based on the works of Nikolai Gogol Cordelia – King Lear by William Shakespeare Devil in the guise of a beautiful maiden – Bukvar Myru by Hryhorii Skovoroda The One Who Is Alone – Bozhestvennaia odinochestvo (Oksana) by Oleksandr Denysenko Grandmother, D'Artagnan's favourite – Eh, Musketeers, Musketeers… by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Jessica – Hysteria by Terry Johnson Miriam – Holgotha by Lesya Ukrainka
She also appeared in a short film.
Family Her husband was actor and politician Yevhen Nyshchuk, who served as Minister of Culture of Ukraine. They had a son, Oleksa.
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