Laura Efrikian (; born Laura Ephrikian on 14 June 1940) is an Italian actress and television personality.

Life and career

Born in

Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...

as Laura Ephrikian, the daughter of the conductor and musicologist Angelo Ephrikian of Armenian descent, Efrikian graduated in acting at the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Since 1960 Efrikian intensively worked in theater, television and films, notably hosting the 1962 edition of the

Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival ( ), officially the Italian Song Festival (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by (RAI). It is the longest-running ...

. After the film debut in the 1961

peplum film Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Holl ...

Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis ''Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis'' () is a 1961 film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Reg Park in his film debut as Ercole/Hercules. It was originally released in Super Technirama 70. The film is also known as ''Hercules Con ...

'', Efrikian starred in several ''musicarelli'' films with

Gianni Morandi Gian Luigi "Gianni" Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer. It is estimated that Morandi has sold about 50 million recordings. Early life Born in Monghidoro, Emilia-Romagna, the son of a cobbler, Mor ...

, whom she married in 1966; the couple divorced in 1979. She considers herself Roman Catholic.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1961) * '' La Cittadella'' (1964) * '' Tears on Your Face'' (1964) * '' Non son degno di te'' (1965) * ''

Se non avessi più te "Se non avessi più te" () is a 1965 Italian song composed by Franco Migliacci (lyrics) Luis Bacalov and Bruno Zambrini (music) and performed by Gianni Morandi. Background The song was runner-up at the 1965 edition of the Cantagiro festival; it ...

'' (1965) * '' The Young Nun'' (1965) * '' Nessuno mi può giudicare'' (1966) * '' Perdono'' (1966) * '' Rita the Mosquito'' (1968) * ''

Chimera Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for " she-goat") originally referred to: * Chimera (mythology), a fire-breathing monster of ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals * Mount Chimaera, a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia ...

'' (1968) * ''

Things from Another World Things or The Things may refer to: Music * ''Things'' (album), by Uri Caine and Paolo Fresu, 2006 * "Things" (Bobby Darin song), 1962; covered by Ronnie Dove, 1975 * "Things", a song by Joe Walsh from '' There Goes the Neighborhood'', 1981 * "Thi ...

'' (2011)

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* Italian film actresses Italian television actresses 1940 births People from Treviso Actresses from Veneto Italian stage actresses Living people Italian people of Armenian descent Italian Roman Catholics {{Italy-film-actor-stub