Laura Efrikian ( hy, Լաուրա Էֆրիկյան; born 14 June 1940), is an Italian actress and television personality. She is of
Armenian descent.
Life and career
Born in
Treviso as Laura Ephrikian, the daughter of the conductor and musicologist
Angelo Ephrikian
Angelo Ephrikian ( hy, Անջելո Էֆրիկյան; 20 October 1913 – 30 October 1982) was an Italian musicologist and violinist of Armenian descent. His daughter, Laura Ephrikian, is an actress.
Angelo Ephrikian was born in Treviso, Italy. ...
, Efrikian graduated in acting at the drama school of the
Piccolo Teatro in
Milan.
Since 1960 Efrikian intensively worked in theater, television and films,
notably hosting the 1962 edition of the
Sanremo Music Festival.
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;
the couple divorced in 1979.
Selected filmography
* ''
Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis'' (1961)
* ''
La Cittadella'' (1964)
* ''
Tears on Your Face'' (1964)
* ''
Non son degno di te
''Non son degno di te'' is a 1965 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti.
Cast
*Gianni Morandi as Gianni Traimonti
* Laura Efrikian as Carla Todisco
* Gino Bramieri as Ginone Traimonti
*Nino Taranto as Antonio Todisco ...
'' (1965)
* ''
Se non avessi più te
''Se non avessi più te'' is a 1965 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti.
Cast
*Gianni Morandi as Gianni Traimonti
* Laura Efrikian as Carla Todisco
* Anna Maria Polani as Isabel de Villalba
*Nino Taranto as Ten. An ...
'' (1965)
* ''
The Young Nun'' (1965)
* ''
Nessuno mi può giudicare'' (1966)
* ''
Perdono'' (1966)
* ''
Rita the Mosquito
''Rita the Mosquito'' ( it, Rita la zanzara) is a 1966 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Lina Wertmüller (under the stage name George H. Brown). It has a sequel, ''Don't Sting the Mosquito''.
Plot
Cast
* Rita Pavone: Rita
* Gianc ...
'' (1968)
* ''
Chimera'' (1968)
* ''
Things from Another World'' (2011)
References
External links
*
Italian film actresses
Italian television actresses
1940 births
People from Treviso
Italian stage actresses
Living people
Italian people of Armenian descent
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