Laura Efrikian
Appearance
Laura Efrikian | |
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Born | Laura Ephrikian 14 June 1940 Treviso, Kingdom of Italy |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse |
Laura Efrikian (Armenian: Լաուրա Էֆրիկյան; born 14 June 1940), is an Italian actress and television personality. She is of Armenian descent.
Life and career[edit]
Born in Treviso as Laura Ephrikian, the daughter of the conductor and musicologist Angelo Ephrikian, Efrikian graduated in acting at the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.[1]
Since 1960 Efrikian intensively worked in theater, television and films,[1] notably hosting the 1962 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.[1][2] After the film debut in the 1961 peplum film Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis, Efrikian starred in several musicarelli films with Gianni Morandi, whom she married in 1966;[1] the couple divorced in 1979.[3]
Selected filmography[edit]
- Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961)
- La Cittadella (1964)
- Una lacrima sul viso (1964)
- Tears on Your Face (1964)
- Non son degno di te (1965)
- Se non avessi più te (1965)
- The Young Nun (1965)
- Nessuno mi può giudicare (1966)
- Perdono (1966)
- Rita the Mosquito (1968)
- Chimera (1968)
- Things from Another World (2011)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
- ^ Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
- ^ Vivì Zizzo (1 February 2011). "Laura Efrikian torna a parlare. Intervista esclusiva alla prima moglie di Gianni Morandi". Oggi. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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