Laura Efrikian

Laura Efrikian (Armenian: Լաուրա Էֆրիկյան; born 14 June 1940), is an Italian actress and television personality. She is of Armenian descent.

Laura Efrikian
Efrikian and Reg Park in Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961)
Born
Laura Ephrikian

(1940-06-14) 14 June 1940
Treviso, Veneto, Italy
OccupationActress
Spouse(s)
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(
m. 1966; div. 1979)

Life and career

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
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References
  1. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
  2. Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
  3. 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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