Olga Karlatos

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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.

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1985
Inganni
Movie Sibilla Aleramo
1984
Miami Vice
TV show Felicia
1984
Purple Rain
Movie Mother
1984
Once Upon a Time in America
Movie Woman in Puppet Theatre
1984
Murder-Rock: Dancing Death
Movie Candice Norman
1983
The Sins of Dorian Gray
Movie Sofia Lord
1983
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie Francesca Lombardo
1981
Le rose di Danzica
TV show Margarethe Von Lehner
1981
Der Schatz des Priamos
Movie Sophia
1981
Scruples
Movie Valentine O'Neill
1981
Peter and Paul
TV show Bernice
1980
Emergency exit
Movie Daisy Alexiou
1980
Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
Movie Queen Sofia
1980
A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers
Movie Angelica
1979
Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective
Movie Clara Moser
1979
Velvet Hands
Movie Petula

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1979
Riavanti… Marsch!
Movie Elena
1979
Le rose di Danzica
Movie Margarethe
1979
Skin Deep
Movie Adriana Berri
1979
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Movie Paola Menard
1979
Belli e brutti ridono tutti
Movie Countess Ada Bisi
1979
A Dangerous Toy
Movie Laura Griffo
1979
Dedicated to the Aegean Sea
Movie Elda
1978
Convoy Busters
Movie Anna
1978
The Idlers of the Fertile Valley
Movie Sofia
1978
Ridendo e scherzando
Movie Irene, moglie di Giorgio
1978
Return of the Saint
TV show Vlora
1978
Cyclone
Movie Monica
1978
Blood and Diamonds
Movie Maria
1978
Damned in Venice
Movie Madeleine Winters / Mother / Midwife
1978
Special Effects
Movie Marta
1977
Wifemistress
Movie Dr. Paola Pagano
1977
This Is the Night
Movie Beatriz
1976
Strange Occasion
Movie Giovanna, moglie di Antonio (episodio Il Cavalluccio Svedese)
1976
Keoma
Movie Liza Farrow
1976
Gloria Mundi
Movie Galai
1975
My Friends
Movie Donatella Sassaroli
1974
Pinned to the Ground
Movie Nadja Nahadi
1972
Paulina 1880
Movie Paulina Pandolfini at 20 years old
1971
Eneide
TV show Dido