Olga Karlatos
Born: 1945-04-20 in Athens, Greece
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1985
- Inganni as Sibilla Aleramo
1984
- Miami Vice as Felicia
- Once Upon a Time in America as Woman in the Puppet Theatre
- Purple Rain as Mother
- Murder-Rock: Dancing Death as Candice Norman
1983
- The Scarlet and the Black as Francesca Lombardo
- The Sins of Dorian Gray as Sofia Lord
1981
- Peter and Paul as Bernice
- Le rose di Danzica as Margarethe Von Lehner
- Scruples as Valentine O'Neill
- Der Schatz des Priamos as Sophia
1980
- Emergency exit as Daisy Alexiou
- A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers as Angelica
- Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927 as Queen Sofia
1979
- Zombie Flesh Eaters as Paola Menard
- Skin Deep as Adriana Berri
- Velvet Hands as Petula
- Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective as Clara Moser
- A Dangerous Toy as Laura Griffo
- Dedicated to the Aegean Sea as Elda
- Riavanti… Marsch! as Elena
- Belli e brutti ridono tutti as Countess Ada Bisi
- Le rose di Danzica as Margarethe
1978
- Return of the Saint as Vlora
- Cyclone as Monica
- Ridendo e scherzando as Irene, moglie di Giorgio
- The Idlers of the Fertile Valley as Sofia
- Blood and Diamonds as Maria
- Convoy Busters as Anna
- Damned in Venice as Madeleine Winters / Mother / Midwife
- Special Effects as Marta
1977
- Wifemistress as Dr. Paola Pagano
- This Is the Night as Beatriz
1976
- Strange Occasion as Giovanna, moglie di Antonio (episodio Il Cavalluccio Svedese)
- Keoma as Liza Farrow
- 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