Oja Kodar

Biography

Oja Kodar was born Olga Palinkaš in 1941 to a Hungarian father and Croatian mother. She met Orson Welles in 1961 while he was filming The Trial in Zagreb, Croatia. Welles gave her the stage name "Oja Kodar," a combination of her sister's nickname and a Croatian expression, and she became his romantic partner and collaborator during his final years.