Olga Georges-Picot
Actor
Biography
Olga Georges-Picot (6 January 1940 – 19 June 1997) was a French actress. She was a great-niece of François Georges-Picot.
Born in Shanghai, in Japanese-occupied China, she was the daughter of Guillaume Georges-Picot, the French Ambassador to China, and a Russian mother, Anastasia Mironovich. She attended the International School in Geneva in the early fifties with her sister. She also attended the Lycée français de New York (Class of 1958). She studied acting at the Actors Studio in Paris.
Her acting career included roles in French and English films, and on television. She was featured in Playboy Magazine’s "Sex in Cinema" column, and also on the front cover of the periodical Adam.
She appeared in three 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’s film Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968). Earlier that year, she had appeared in the French television movie Thibaud the Crusader (1968).
On Thursday 19 June 1997, she jumped to her death from the 5th floor of an apartment building in Paris, France.
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Filmography
The Day of the Jackal
as Denise 1973
Two for the Road
as Joanna's Touring Friend (uncredited) 1967
Farewell, Friend
as Isabelle Moreau 1968
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
as Catherine 1968
Emmanuelle 3
as Florence 1977
The Man Who Haunted Himself
as Julia Anderson 1970
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
as Nora/The Lawyer 1974
The Man Who Quit Smoking
as Gunhild 1972
Connecting Rooms
as Claudia 1970
Tales of Paris
as Secretary (segment "Ella") 1962
Vice Squad
1978
Les Confidences érotiques d'un lit trop accueillant
as Dominique 1973
Sex Is Beautiful
as Claire 1973
Persecution
as Monique Kalfon 1974
On the Lam
as Nadine 1971
Rebelote
as Suzanne Chauveau, the mother 1984