Olivera Katarina

Olivera Vučo, née Vukotić, (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Вучо,née Вукотић), also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović born on March 5 , 1940, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia is an actress and singer from Serbia, very popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

She stadied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade. Started her carier as a student with a major role as Koštana in a same name play in a National Theatre in Belgrade. There she met Vuk Vučo, a theatre critic whom she later married.

For a role in "Goya - oder Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis" in 1971 (as Olivera Katarina), she was awarded in festivals in Moscow and Venice. Her major success was in Aleksandar Petrović´s "I Even Met Happy Gypsies", ("Skupljači perja"), where she she played a gipsy singer named Lenče. Film was nominated for the 1968 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, for a Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, and for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film at the 1969 Golden Globes. It won the FIPRESCIGrand Prize of the Jury at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. Olivera closed this festival with a concert together with Nana Mouskouri and Dionne Warwick.

Made a huge success as a singer also. She recorded in Serbian language, as well as in Russian, Greek, Romani, Indonesian. She sang traditional Serbian folk songs and Gipsy/Romani songs.