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Olga Georges-Picot Born January 6, 1940
Shanghai, ChinaDied June 19, 1997 (aged 57)
Paris, FranceOccupation actress Years active 1962–1977 Olga Georges-Picot (January 6, 1940 - June 19, 1997) was a French actress.
Born in Shanghai, China, she was the daughter of Guillaume Georges-Picot, the French Ambassador to China, and a Russian mother. Olga studied acting at the Actor’s Studio in Paris. Her acting career covered many diverse French and English films and television roles. She was featured in Playboy Magazine’s Sex in the Cinema and also on the front cover of the periodical Adam.
She played important roles in three classic mainstream films: Denise, the OAS mole, in The Day of the Jackal (1973); Countess Alexandrovna in Woody Allen’s Love and Death (1975); and Julie Anderson in Basil Dearden’s The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970). Her break-through role in the movies was as Catrine in the Alain Resnais’ film Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968). Earlier that year, she had appeared in the French television movie Thibaud the Crusader (1968).
Biographical information on her life and career is very limited and often incomplete. Apparently Olga suffered from severe depression for unknown or unpublished reasons; her bouts with depression apparently led to her suicide jump on Thursday, 19 June 1997, from the 5th floor of an apartment building that overlooked the river Seine, in Paris, France.
External links
- Olga Georges-Picot at the Internet Movie Database
- Olga Georges-Picot at AllRovi
- Olga Georges-Picot at the TCM Movie Database
Attended the Lycee francais de New York (Class of 1958)Photo http://sites.google.com/site/aalfnyorg/Home/InMemoriam
Categories:- 1940 births
- 1997 deaths
- Suicides in France
- Suicides by jumping from a height
- Actors who committed suicide
- French film actors
- French people of Russian descent
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