Laura Efrikian

Italian-Armenian actress (born 1940)

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Laura Efrikian (Armenian: Լաուրա Էֆրիկյան ; born Laura Ephrikian , 14 June 1940) is an Italian actress and television personality mainly active in the 1960s.
Since 1960 Efrikian intensively worked in theater, television and films, notably hosting the 1962 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.
She considers herself Roman Catholic.

Laura Efrikian (Armenian: Լաուրա Էֆրիկյան; born Laura Ephrikian, 14 June 1940) is an Italian actress and television personality mainly active in the 1960s.

Life and career

Born in Treviso as Laura Ephrikian, the daughter of the conductor and musicologist Angelo Ephrikian and 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. 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; the couple divorced in 1979.

She considers herself Roman Catholic.