Mariya Kochur is a Ukrainian theater and cinema actress. She graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Theater Institute in Kyiv in 1963. From 1963 to 2004, she was an actress of the Kyiv Academic Theater of Young Spectators in Lypki, where she played more than 100 roles in the classical and modern repertoire. She was awarded the title "Honored Worker of Ukrainian Culture" in 1994).