{{Short description|French actress (1940–1997)}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Olga Georges-Picot | image = Olga Georges-Picot.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1940|1|6|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Shanghai]], China | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|6|19|1940|1|6|df=y}} | death_place = [[Paris]], France | other_names = | occupation = actress | years_active = 1962–1986 | spouse = | partner = | relatives = [[François Georges-Picot]] (great-uncle) | website = }} '''Olga Georges-Picot''' (6 January 1940 – 19 June 1997) was a French actress. She was a great-niece of [[François Georges-Picot]].<ref>[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/after-100-years-the-mess-we-made-of-the-middle-east-is-coming-full-circle/ After 100 years, the mess we made of the Middle East is coming full circle] Published by [[The Spectator]]</ref>
==Early life== Born in [[Shanghai]], in [[Reformed Government of the Republic of China|Japanese-occupied China]], she was the daughter of Guillaume Georges-Picot, the French Ambassador to China, and a Russian mother, Anastasia Mironovich. She attended the International School in Geneva in the early fifties with her sister. She also attended the [[Lycée français de New York]] (Class of 1958).<ref>[http://sites.google.com/site/aalfnyorg/Home/InMemoriam Alumni Association of the Lycée français de New York; In memoriam]</ref> She studied acting at the Actors Studio in Paris.
==Career== Her acting career included roles in French and English films, and on television. She was featured in ''[[Playboy Magazine]]'''s "Sex in Cinema" column, and also on the front cover of the periodical ''Adam''.
She appeared in three mainstream films: Denise, the [[Organisation de l'armée secrète|OAS]] mole, in ''[[The Day of the Jackal (film)|The Day of the Jackal]]'' (1973); Countess Alexandrovna in [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Love and Death]]'' (1975); and Julie Anderson in [[Basil Dearden]]'s ''[[The Man Who Haunted Himself]]'' (1970). Her breakthrough role in the movies was as Catrine in the [[Alain Resnais]]’s film ''[[Je t'aime, je t'aime]]'' (1968). Earlier that year, she had appeared in the French television movie ''[[Thibaud the Crusader]]'' (1968).
==Death== On Thursday 19 June 1997, she jumped to her death from the 5th floor of an apartment building in Paris, France.<ref>{{Cite web |last=AlloCine |title=Olga Georges-Picot |url=https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=755.html |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=AlloCiné |language=fr}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 1962 || ''[[Tales of Paris]]'' ||La secrétaire || (segment "Ella") |- | 1967 || ''[[Two for the Road (film)|Two for the Road]]'' || Joanna's Touring Friend || Uncredited |- | rowspan="4" | 1968 || ''[[Je t'aime, je t'aime]]'' || Catrine || |- | ''[[Adieu l'ami|Farewell, Friend]]'' || Isabelle Moreau || |- | ''[[Sleep Is Lovely]]'' || Elsa || |- | ''Summit'' || || |- | 1969 || ''{{Interlanguage link|Catherine, il suffit d'un amour|fr}}'' || Catherine || |- | rowspan="2" | 1970 || ''[[The Man Who Haunted Himself]]'' || Julie Anderson || |- | ''[[Connecting Rooms]]'' || Claudia || |- | 1971 || ''La cavale'' || Nadine || |- | 1972 || ''[[The Man Who Quit Smoking]]'' || Gunhild || |- | rowspan="6" | 1973 || ''La révélation'' || Clarie || |- | ''[[Un homme libre (1973 film)|Un Homme libre]]'' || Nicole Lefèvre || |- | ''[[The Day of the Jackal (film)|The Day of the Jackal]]'' || Denise || |- | ''Le feu aux lèvres'' || Christine Benoît || |- | ''Les Confidences érotiques d'un lit trop accueillant'' || Dominique || |- | ''Féminin-féminin'' || Marie-Hélène || |- | rowspan="3" | 1974 || ''[[Glissements progressifs du plaisir|Successive slidings of pleasure]]'' || Nora / lawyer || |- | ''[[Persecution (film)|Persecution]]'' || Monique Kalfon || aka ''Sheba'', ''The Graveyard'', ''The Terror of Sheba'' |- | ''{{ill|Härte 10|de}}'' || Nadine Mercier || TV mini-series, 6 episodes |- | rowspan="2" | 1975 || ''[[Children of Rage]]'' || Leylah Saleh || |- | ''[[Love and Death]]'' || Countess Alexandrovna || |- | 1977 || ''[[Goodbye Emmanuelle]]'' || Florence || |- | 1978 || ''[[Victims of Vice|Brigade mondaine]]'' || || |- | 1984 || ''Rebelote'' || Suzanne Chauveau, la mère || |}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0313682}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140316110418/http://sonuma.be/archive/alain-resnais-sur-la-c%C3%B4te-belge Report]
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