Olivera Katarina

Biography

Olivera Katarina was a Serbian actress, singer, and writer born on March 5, 1940, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She rose to fame as one of the leading stars of Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, starring in Aleksandar Petrović's film I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967), which won the Grand Prix at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. As a singer, she performed various genres, including Serbian traditional to pop music, with notable renditions of songs like "Đelem, đelem".