Anastasia Vertinskaya is a popular Russian actress and public figure best known for her roles as Assol in Velas púrpuras (1961) and Ophelia in Hamlet (1964). She was born Anastasia Aleksandrovna Vertinskaya on December 19, 1944, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (now Moscow, Russia). Her father, Aleksandr Vertinskiy, was a famous Russian actor, singer and songwriter, who returned from his emigration in China to Moscow during the Second World War. Her mother, Lidiya Vertinskaya (née Lidia Vladim