---
name: "Apollonia Kotero"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/apollonia-kotero"
fi1m_id: "apollonia-kotero"
imdb_id: "nm0467664"
tmdb_id: 191104
wikidata_id: "Q619328"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 August 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:40:54.090002+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Apollonia Kotero

## Identity

Apollonia Kotero

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/apollonia-kotero
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** apollonia-kotero
- **IMDb ID:** nm0467664
- **TMDB ID:** 191104
- **Wikidata ID:** Q619328
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonia_Kotero, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619328, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467664/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/191104

Actor. Born 2 August 1959 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 August 1959, Santa Monica, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Apollonia, Patty Kotero
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonia_Kotero, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619328, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467664/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/191104

## 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).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Purple Rain* (1984), Fi1m 72, as Apollonia — [page](https://film.one/film/purple-rain.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Air America* (1998), series, as Lucy Ortega
- *Anarchy TV* (1998), as Hot Tub Woman
- *Sliders* (1995), series, as Dr. Deera Mubaric
- *Bad Girls* (1992), as Esmeralda
- *A Woman's Secret* (1992), as Barbara
- *Black Magic Woman* (1991), as Cassandra Perry
- *Ministry of Vengeance* (1989), as Zarah
- *Back to Back* (1989), as Jesse Duro
- *Prince and the Revolution: Live* (1985), as Apollonia
- *Happy Birthday, Mr. Christian* (1984), as Apollonia Kotero
- *Purple Rain* (1984), as Apollonia — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/purple-rain.md)
- *The Mystic Warrior* (1984), series, as Wicahpi
- *Heartbreaker* (1983), as Rose
- *Knight Rider* (1982), series, as Tiara D'Arcy
- *Matt Houston* (1982), series, Actor
- *Tales of the Gold Monkey* (1982), series, Actor
- *Falcon Crest* (1981), series, as Apollonia
- *Amor ciego* (1980), as Patty
- *CHiPs* (1977), series, Actor
- *Baby, You're a Star*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Apollonia Kotero](https://film.one/media/person/5545116/gallery-004ca5875115.jpg) Apollonia Kotero — photo by Glenn Francis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Apollonia_Kotero.jpg/1280px-Apollonia_Kotero.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Apollonia Kotero](https://film.one/media/person/5545116/gallery-e3ee739b563d.jpg) Apollonia Kotero — Image via TMDB
- ![Apollonia Kotero](https://film.one/media/person/5545116/gallery-cfe1d02e627a.jpg) Apollonia Kotero — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star 1985: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star (nominated), for *Purple Rain*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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