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Beautiful and talented French actress Olga Georges-Picot, was born on the 6th January 1944 in Shanghai, China and was the daughter of the ambassador Guillaume Georges-Picot and of a Russian mother. The highly gifted Olga studied at the Actor’s Studio in Paris. Her acting career covered many diverse French/English film and television roles; she featured in Playboy magazine/Sex in the Cinema and on the front cover of the periodical Adam.

She played important roles in three classic mainstream films: The Day of the Jackal as Denise (1973), Love and Death as Countess Alexandrovna (1975) and The Man Who Haunted Himself as Julie Anderson (1970). Her break-through movie was as Catrine in Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968).

Olga died in extremely tragic, possibly mysterious and certainly dramatic, circumstances 11 years ago in June 1997 aged just 53.

Biographical information on her life and career leading to her tragic apparent suicide on Thursday, 19th June, 1997 is very limited, incomplete and unclear – but it seems, from English/French researches I’ve been able to glean, that Olga suffered from severe depression which sadly, finally and shockingly resulted in a fatal suicide jump from the 5th floor of an apartment building overlooking the river Seine, Paris.

A beautiful, talented actress – who died too young.
RIP Olga.

Mrs Emma Peel