Olga Karlatos
Olga Karlatos (Greek: Όλγα Καρλάτου; 20 April 1947) is a retired Greek actress and Bermudian lawyer, known primarily for performing in Italian horror cinema. Between the end of the 1960s and the early 70s, Karlatos had a short career as a singer, recording an EP and some singles in French and Italian, including the theme song of the drama Eneide, in which she starred as Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage. In 1975, she took part in the film My Friends, directed by Mario Monicelli, in which she played Donatella, the unhappy wife of the surgeon Alfeo Sassaroli. During the '80s, she participated in the film of Mauro Bolognini The Lady of the Camellias (1981), with Isabelle Huppert; she later played the starring role in the Lucio Fulci giallo film Murder Rock (1984), a small part in the Sergio Leone film Once Upon A Time In America (1984), and the film musical Purple Rain (1984) with Prince, in which she played the singer's mother. She also appeared in such television productions as Peter and Paul (1981), The Scarlet and the Black (1983), Quo Vadis? (1985), and Miami Vice (1986). Post-acting career In 2007, Karlatos graduated from the University of Kent with a law degree and was admitted to the Bermuda Bar Association in 2010. Karlatos married Greek-Ethiopian filmmaker Nikos Papatakis in 1967. The couple had one child together, son Serge (b. 1967), before their divorce in 1982. The next year, she married American director, producer, and writer Arthur Rankin after he cast her in a television adaption of The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Sins of Dorian Gray. They later settled in Bermuda. Source: Article "Olga Karlatos" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Credits
- 1985 · Inganni as Sibilla Aleramo
- 1984 · Miami Vice as Felicia
- 1984 · Purple Rain as Mother
- 1984 · Once Upon a Time in America as Woman in the Puppet Theatre
- 1984 · Murder-Rock: Dancing Death as Candice Norman
- 1983 · The Sins of Dorian Gray as Sofia Lord
- 1983 · The Scarlet and the Black as Francesca Lombardo
- 1981 · Der Schatz des Priamos as Sophia
- 1981 · Scruples as Valentine O'Neill
- 1981 · Peter and Paul as Bernice
- 1980 · Emergency exit as Daisy Alexiou
- 1980 · Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927 as Queen Sofia
- 1980 · A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers as Angelica
- 1979 · Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective as Clara Moser
- 1979 · Velvet Hands as Petula
- 1979 · Riavanti… Marsch! as Elena
- 1979 · Le rose di Danzica as Margarethe
- 1979 · Skin Deep as Adriana Berri
- 1979 · Zombie Flesh Eaters as Paola Menard
- 1979 · Belli e brutti ridono tutti as Countess Ada Bisi
- 1979 · A Dangerous Toy as Laura Griffo
- 1979 · Dedicated to the Aegean Sea as Elda
- 1978 · Convoy Busters as Anna
- 1978 · The Idlers of the Fertile Valley as Sofia
- 1978 · Ridendo e scherzando as Irene, moglie di Giorgio
- 1978 · Return of the Saint as Vlora
- 1978 · Cyclone as Monica
- 1978 · Blood and Diamonds as Maria
- 1978 · Damned in Venice as Madeleine Winters / Mother / Midwife
- 1978 · Special Effects as Marta
- 1977 · Wifemistress as Dr. Paola Pagano
- 1977 · This Is the Night as Beatriz
- 1976 · Strange Occasion as Giovanna, moglie di Antonio (episodio Il Cavalluccio Svedese)
- 1976 · Keoma as Liza Farrow
- 1976 · Gloria Mundi as Galai
- 1975 · My Friends as Donatella Sassaroli
- 1974 · Pinned to the Ground as Nadja Nahadi
- 1972 · Paulina 1880 as Paulina Pandolfini at 20 years old
- 1971 · Eneide as Dido
- 1967 · Thanos and Despina as Despoina
- 1966 · Taste of Killing as Molly
- 1965 · Dim Dam Dom as Self