 Polish actress (real name Petrovna) whose birth is shrouded in the mists of war-torn East Europe and who eventually became a minor cult figure of British horror films, that traded on her voluptuous figure.
She had already appeared in several international films such as Doctor Zhivago (UK/US, d. David Lean, 1965), shot in Spain, where she lived for some years, acting with the Spanish National Theatre.
In Britain, she was most famously Countess Dracula (d. Peter Sasdy, 1970), who bathed in the blood of her servant-girls to improve her complexion, as a wellborn woman would do.
Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Cinema
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