Hanja Kochansky
Hanja Kochansky is a Croatian writer and actress.
A refugee during the Second World War to Italy, in 1948 she went to Johannesburg as an emigrant. In 1966 she played one of Elizabeth Taylor's handmaidens in the film Cleopatra. In 1972 her book Women's Sexual Fantasies was published by ace Books in New York and became a best-seller.
She married Hugh Bebb in 1963. They had a daughter, Katia, in 1966. In 1974 she had a son, Kasimir, with the Spaghetti actor, William Berger. He starred with his father in the TV mini-series, Christopher Columbus in 1985. He also acted in the film Absurd aka Rosso sangue (1981) with his mother and sister.
After living in Rome for thirty years she moved to London in 2010.
Filmography
- Uomini & donne, amori & bugie (2003) ....
- La cena (1998) ....
- Una casa a Roma (1988) (TV) ....
- La famiglia (1987) (as Hania Kochansky) .... Susanna
- Liebeskonzil (1982) .... Purgue
- Rosso sangue (1981) .... Mrs. Bennett
- Danger Man (1 episode, 1966, TV episode The Paper Chase) .... Paula
References
Publishing History. Freely Female: Women's Sexual Fantasies, published by Ace Books (USA) 1972. (It received a glowing review in Ms Magazine by Susan Sontag and was on the reading list for women’s studies programmes at a number of American universities.) Aim Books (Australia) 1975; Granada Publishing Ltd. (UK) 1977 Encounter. An Interview with Judith Malina, Harper's & Queen, July 1979 Sexual Mythology, Resurgence, December 1979 The Group, New Observations, July 1989 Interview with R. D. Laing, R. D. Laing: Creative Destroyer 1997 Via Della Scala, www.pilgrimjournal.com (Advent/Christmas 2010) Goodbye Butterfly, is published in Best of Fiction on the Web Anthology (2018)
From 10 March to 19 June 2011 a photograph of her taken by Ida Kar was displayed on the prestigious walls of the National Portrait Gallery