Gudrun Okras

Gudrun Okras (born 8 December 1929 in Berlin; died 23 July 2009) was a German theatre and film actor. In the early 1950s, Okras began working as an actress at the Vaganten Bühne in Berlin. She performed there from 1952 to 1959. She was also engaged at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. She performed there from 1977 to 1992. One of her most important roles there was Clytemnestra in the adaptation of the Tantalides myth by Euripides. During her work as a theatre actress, she took on her first roles in feature films. In the mid-1980s, she took on television roles for the first time. Until her death in 2009, Okras appeared in over 50 film and television productions. She became known for guest roles in Der Alte, Ein Fall für Zwei and Adelheid und ihre Mörder (with Evelyn Hamann). For Jetzt oder nie - Zeit ist Geld (2000; producer: Til Schweiger), Okras and her colleagues Christel Peters and Elisabeth Scherer received the Ernst Lubitsch Prize. She became known to a broad international audience through her supporting role in the Dutch Oscar-nominated film The Twins. Gudrun Okras died on 23 July 2009 after a long and serious illness. Her son Dieter Okras (1948–2014) was also an actor.