Biography
Apollonia Kotero, also credited as Apollonia or Patty Kotero, is an American actress, singer and former model. Born Patricia Apollonia Kotero on 2 August 1959 in Santa Monica, California, she left high school at 16 to pursue modelling and appeared in early television roles including episodes of CHiPs (1977) and Knight Rider (1982).
She is known for her role as Apollonia opposite Prince in the 1984 film Purple Rain, for which she also fronted the girl group Apollonia 6. Kotero later played the character Apollonia in ten episodes of the soap opera Falcon Crest (1985–1986) and has appeared in other television series such as Sliders (1995).
