Helena Kallianiotes

Helena Kallianiotes (born March 24, 1938) is a Greek-American film actress. In 1973, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her role as Jackie Burdette in Kansas City Bomber.

Helena Kallianiotes
Helena Kallianiotes in Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Born (1938-03-24) March 24, 1938
Greece
OccupationActress, dancer, property manager

Career overview

During the late 1960s Helena Kallianiotes was the resident belly dancer at The Intersection, a Greek restaurant in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. This engagement led to her first film appearance as an uncredited belly dancer in the 1968 film Head, directed by Bob Rafelson and starring The Monkees. Kallianiotes was later cast in another Rafelson film, Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black, in which she played Palm Apodaca, a neurotic, foul-mouthed "butch" hitch-hiker, traveling with her companion played by Toni Basil. In 1972, Kallianiotes appeared in her most celebrated role[1][2] as the ultra-aggressive roller derby skater Jackie Burdette in Kansas City Bomber, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for the 1973 Golden Globe Awards. Her other film roles include Mata Hari in Shanks (1974), Elaine Reavis in The Drowning Pool (1975), Anita in Stay Hungry, the Visionary Woman in The Passover Plot (both 1976), and a future-reading brothel madam in Nicolas Roeg's Eureka (1983).

Kallianiotes is featured on the cover of Art Garfunkel's LP Breakaway.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1968 Head Belly Dancer Uncredited
1969 Easy Rider Woman in Commune Uncredited
1970 Five Easy Pieces Palm Apodaca Was featured in the famous "chicken salad sandwich" scene with Jack Nicholson, Karen Black and Toni Basil.
The Baby Maker Wanda
1972 Kansas City Bomber Jackie Burdette Nominated for 1973 Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role."
1974 Shanks Mata Hari A moll in a biker gang who all use names of historical notables
1975 The Drowning Pool Elaine Reavis
1976 Stay Hungry Anita
The Passover Plot Visionary Woman
1983 Eureka Frieda
1990 Catchfire Grace Carelli

References
  1. Greenspun, Roger (August 3, 1972). "Instant Morality:'Kansas City Bomber' Stars Raquel Welch" – via NYTimes.com.
  2. "Kansas City Bomber". Turner Classic Movies.
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