Olga Georges-Picot

The French actress Olga Georges-Picot built a screen career in both French and English films and on television. Born in Shanghai, she trained at the Actors Studio in Paris and had an early screen part in Thibaud the Crusader, a French television movie from 1968. Her breakthrough came that same year as Catrine in Alain Resnais's Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968). Among her best known roles were the OAS mole Denise in The Day of the Jackal (1973), Julie Anderson in The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970), directed by Basil Dearden, and, in Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975), Countess Alexandrovna. She was also featured in Playboy's Sex in Cinema column and on the cover of the periodical Adam.