Vera Chochorovska Goulet

Producer/Director/Writer/Photographer Vera Goulet was born Vera Chochorovska in Macedonia, former Yugoslavia. By the age of eleven, she and her mother had been twice caught and imprisoned for attempting to escape from her native communist Yugoslavia. Their third attempt to cross the border from Yugoslavia into Italy was a success and they spent two years in Italian refugee camps before emigrating to England.

She lived in London for 20 years and worked in the theater behind the scenes, did film and television extra work, and also worked in PR for the legendary press agent to the stars Theo Cowan. She loved antiques and opened an antique shop in the seventies as well as a small shop on Saturday's in the famous Portobello Antiques Market in Notting Hill, the trendy London area.

In 1980 she came to America and was instrumental in managing Robert Goulet's career and business enterprises for twenty-seven years.

She produced and directed over 5000 concert performances of "An Evening With Robert Goulet" also "Robert Goulet The Man and His Music".

She was the primary creative and contractual business negotiator for the national tours of Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, The Fantasticks 1990, Camelot 90; 92-94; 98, Broadway and National tours; Moon Over Buffalo 1996 (Broadway), Man Of La Mancha 1996, La Cage aux Folles" (Broadway) 2005, all starring Robert Goulet. As Mr. Goulet's representative, her many television credits include Fantasy Island, Police Squad, Matt Houston, Finder of Lost Loves, Murder She Wrote, CBS/Disney Studios Pilot- Acting Sheriff -Make My Day, In The Heat Of The Night, Based On A Untrue Story, The Simpsons, Get Smart, Burkes Law, George and Leo, Recess, Mercedes Benz commercials, the highly acclaimed "Kooky College Tunes" ESPN Basketball for which Mr. Goulet won a sports Emmy, Two Guys and a Girl, Nikki, My Favorite Broadway, Las Vegas and King Of Queens. Her film credits encompass such motion pictures as Beetlejuice, Scrooged, The Naked Gun II ½: The Smell of Fear, Mr. Wrong, Disney's animated feature Recess, Toy Story II, The Last Producer and G-Men From Hell.

Robert and Vera were married in 1982. Although they spent much of their lives on the road, Vera treasured the time they shared in their Las Vegas home where she and Robert enjoyed quiet moments with their two dogs, nine cats. Her hobbies are collecting paintings, sculpture and antiques, also painting, photography, reading and writing.

They were very actively involved with the local community in Las Vegas supporting the arts as well as many charitable, humanitarian, environmental and social issues worldwide, which Vera quietly continues to do.

It was evident to friends or strangers just by seeing them together that Robert and Vera shared a unique love, which some people will never experience in their lifetime. They were inseparable until the very end. On October 30, 2007 pulmonary fibrosis silenced the big-voiced baritone. Vera was with him constantly during his hospitalization and held his hand until his last breath.

She continues to keep Robert's legacy alive and is working on various projects including releasing albums of never released recordings, a biography and Robert's unfinished book and his poetry.

Vera created Robert Goulet Greeting Cards, which are e-cards with beautiful images set to Robert Goulet's music. In December 2011 she launched the website, www.RobertGouletGreetingCard.com

Vera said, "Developing and creating this project was a labor of love and it has allowed me to complete one of Robert's unfinished dreams". She continues, "The many seasons I shared with Robert were the happiest years of my life, for he was the love of my life. I don't live in the past, but the past is what keeps me going each day because Robert is forever present in my heart." (IMDb Biography By: Natasha Ashton)

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