Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zaytseva is a Soviet and Russian film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR and laureate of the State Prize of the USSR. Her movie career began in 1967. During the Russian presidential election of 1996, she was a confidant of Gennady Zyuganov and supported his election campaign by travelling with concert brigades throughout the country. For more than 30 years, she was married to Gennady Voronin, a screenwriter and film director, who died in 2011.