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Olga Karlatos

Olga Karlatos

Birthday: 1945-04-20 | Place of Birth: Athens, Greece

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Purple Rain

as    Mother

1985
Inganni

as    Sibilla Aleramo

1984
Murder-Rock: Dancing Death

as    Candice Norman

1983
The Scarlet and the Black

as    Francesca Lombardo

1983
The Sins of Dorian Gray

as    Sofia Lord

1981
Scruples

as    Valentine O'Neill

1980
1980
Emergency exit

as    Daisy Alexiou

1980
Zombie Flesh Eaters

as    Paola Menard

1980
Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927

as    Queen Sofia

1979
Skin Deep

as    Adriana Berri

1979
Belli e brutti ridono tutti

as    Countess Ada Bisi

1979
1979
A Dangerous Toy

as    Laura Griffo

1979
Le rose di Danzica

as    Margarethe

1979
Cyclone

as    Monica

1979
Velvet Hands

as    Petula

1978
Convoy Busters

as    Anna

1978
Ridendo e scherzando

as    Irene, moglie di Giorgio

1978
Damned in Venice

as    Madeleine Winters / Mother / Midwife

1978
Blood and Diamonds

as    Maria

1978
Special Effects

as    Marta

1978
1977
This Is the Night

as    Beatriz

1977
Wifemistress

as    Dr. Paola Pagano

1977
Keoma

as    Liza Farrow

1976
My Friends

as    Donatella Sassaroli