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Oja Kodar (b. 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director, best known as the girlfriend of Orson Welles for the last 24 years of his life. Born as Olga Palinkaš in 1941, Kodar was the partner and lover of Orson Welles during the last twenty-four years of his life. They met in her birthplace, and hometown, of Zagreb in 1961, when Welles was in the city filming The Trial. She was around twenty years of age. Kodar now manages Welles' estate. Kodar co-wrote the script of Welles' documentary film, F for Fake (uncredited). She appeared in the film as herself. She... MORE

Oja Kodar (b. 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director, best known as the girlfriend of Orson Welles for the last 24 years of his life. Born as Olga Palinkaš in 1941, Kodar was the partner and lover of Orson Welles during the last twenty-four years of his life. They met in her birthplace, and hometown, of Zagreb in 1961, when Welles was in the city filming The Trial. She was around twenty years of age. Kodar now manages Welles' estate. Kodar co-wrote the script of Welles' documentary film, F for Fake (uncredited). She appeared in the film as herself. She later co-directed and co-wrote the 1995 German-French documentary Orson Welles: The One-Man Band. For this film, she supervised a compilation of unused footage shot by Welles over the final 20 years of his career. Kodar is interviewed in Los Angeles and in Orvilliers, France where they shared a house. This documentary is included on the Criterion Collection DVD release of F For Fake. According to the documentary, Kodar performed in at least three films that Welles worked on in the 1970s, but which were never released: The Other Side of the Wind (in which she performs a love scene in a car), The LESS