Oja Kodar

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Oja Kodar (born Olga Palinkaš in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director. She was the partner and lover of Orson Welles during the last twenty-four years of his life. They met in Zagreb in 1961 when Welles was in the city filming The Trial [1]. She now manages his estate.

She co-wrote the script of Welles' documentary film, F for Fake (uncredited), and also appeared in the film as herself. She later supervised a compilation of unused footage shot by Welles over the years which was included on the Criterion Collection DVD release of F For Fake as part of the documentary Orson Welles: One Man Band in which she is interviewed.

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 an explicit love scene), The Deep, and The Dreamers, in which she was to have played the lead role.

The Other Side of the Wind was largely completed and according to media reports in April 2007 may finally see release in 2008[2]. The other two films were never completed for reasons explained in the documentary.