Nevena Kokanova

Nevena Kokanova (Bulgarian: Невена Коканова) (December 12, 1938 – June 3, 2000) was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner. Kokanova was born in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria and is most renowned for her role as Lisa in The Peach-Garden Trespasser. She started her career at age 18 as an apprentice actor with the Yambol Theater in Yambol, Bulgaria. In 1980, she starred in and co-directed Three Deadly Sins with Lyubomir Sharlandzhiev. She died in Sofia, Bulgaria from cancer.