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Robert Olivo (June 16, 1937 – August 28, 1989), better known by his stage name Ondine, was an American actor. He is best known for appearing in a series of films in the mid-1960s by Andy Warhol, whom he claimed to have met in 1961 at an orgy:
Ondine. Actor: Vinyl. Ondine, one of Andy Warhol's cinema superstars of the Sixties, was born Robert Olivio on June 16, 1937. He first met Warhol at an orgy held around 1961 or '62, and was dismayed by Warhol's failure to join in.
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Mar 5, 2010 · Ondine: Directed by Neil Jordan. With Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan, Alison Barry. An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.
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Ondine is a 2009 Irish romantic drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda. The film was shot on location in Castletownbere, and it touches upon the possible existence of the mythological selkie bringing hope and love to humanity.
Jan 31, 2023 · The result is Ondine, a patchwork of mythology and fantasy with a hard line of blue-collar realism pumping through it. Farrell plays Syracuse, a low-luck fisherman in a small Irish town.
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Jan 10, 2024 · Ondine sees Farrell star alongside Alicja Bachleda, who plays a woman who may or may not be part-seal. The film follows Farrell’s Syracuse, who catches Bachleda’s Ondine in his net, and she refuses to be seen by anyone else.
One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land.
