Oja Kodar Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Oja Kodar (b. 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director, best known as Orson Welles' girlfriend for the last 24 years of his life. Born Olga Palinkaš in 1941 to a Hungarian father and a Croatian mother, Kodar was the partner and lover of Orson Welles during the last twenty-four years of his life. They met in Zagreb in 1961, when Welles was in town filming The Trial. Forty-six-year-old Welles, at the time still married but estranged from his third wife Paola Mori, took a liking to the twenty-year-old "dark, beautiful and exotic-looking" Palinkaš. Soon after... MORE

Oja Kodar (b. 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director, best known as Orson Welles' girlfriend for the last 24 years of his life. Born Olga Palinkaš in 1941 to a Hungarian father and a Croatian mother, Kodar was the partner and lover of Orson Welles during the last twenty-four years of his life. They met in Zagreb in 1961, when Welles was in town filming The Trial. Forty-six-year-old Welles, at the time still married but estranged from his third wife Paola Mori, took a liking to the twenty-year-old "dark, beautiful and exotic-looking" Palinkaš. Soon after they began their relationship, Welles gave her a stage name Oja Kodar. All throughout his time living with Kodar, Welles never divorced Mori nor did he marry Kodar. It took a whole year following his 1985 death for Kodar and Mori to agree on settling his will. Kodar now manages Welles' estate. Most of Kodar's career in movies revolved around Welles' projects, some of which never got finished. In 1966, several years after they met, the couple went back to the Yugoslav coast where Welles began shooting The Deep based on Charles Williams' novel Dead Calm with Kodar playing one of the main roles. LESS