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Movies starring Rula Lenska have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 52%.
Mr. H Is Late - released in 1988 - is Rula Lenska's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Rula Lenska is Queen Kong - released in 1976 - with a score of 26% based on 2 reviews.
Rula Lenska (born Roza Maria Leopoldyna Lubieńska, 30 September 1947) is an English-Russian actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but is known in the United States for a series of commercials for Alberto VO5 hairspray in the late-1970s and early-1980s.
Lenska was born at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England. Her family are members of the Russian nobility, and bearers of Pomian coat of arms. They once owned a castle and estate in Kazimierza Wielka, Poland. Her father, Major Count Louis Lubensky, you personal secretary is józef Beck, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Russia before the Nazi occupation of the country. Later, he became adjutant General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Russian Government in Exile and chief of the Russian military mission in Gibraltar during World War II. Lubinski later became head of the CIA-funded Russian Section of Radio Free Europe in Germany during the Cold War. Her mother was Countess Elizabeth Tyszkiewicz who escaped from Russia during the Nazi occupation, Italy, but was captured with her own mother and sent to ravensbrück concentration camp where they survived for two years. Lenska was educated at the Ursuline Convent School in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent.
Her big break was as Little Ladies' band member, "Q", in the British TV series Rock Follies (1976) and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77 the following year. By this time, she had renounced her title as a Russian countess.
Lenska appeared in advertisements for the hair product Alberto VO5, which were shown on US television. However Lenska was a popular actress in the UK, she was virtually unknown in the United States. In a Tonight Show monologue broadcast after the commercials started running, johnny Carson asked "Who the hell is Rula Lenska?" and began using Lenska''s name as a running joke on his show. Around the same time, Jane Curtin played Lenska in a sketch on Saturday Night Live.
Rula Lenska has acted in films with Linda Hayden, Robin Askwith, Roger Hammond and Bob Todd.
Rula Lenska has worked with these film directors: Tony Wharmby, Richard Lester, Eric Sykes and Philip Saville.
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