Top 100 Greek Actresses
[2] The best actresses form Greece and Cyprus.
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Ketty Panou was born in 1927 in Burgas, Bulgaria. She was an actress, known for Anna Roditi (1948), The Villa with the Water Lilies (1945) and The Voice of the Heart (1943). She died on 16 May 2008 in Athens, Greece.- Actress
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Inta Hristinaki was born in 1925 in Lefkada, Greece. She was an actress and writer, known for Dyo kosmoi (1949), Storm at the Lighthouse (1950) and Bitter Bread (1951). She was married to Grigoris Grigoriou and Vyron Ladas. She died in 2014 in Athens, Greece.- Actress
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Eleni Zafeiriou was born in 1916 in Larissa, Greece. She was an actress, known for Love and Blood (1968), Love Stories (1959) and I Kypros stis floges (1964). She died on 2 September 2004 in Athens, Greece.- Actress
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Smaroula Giouli was born in 1930 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was an actress and director, known for The Taxi Driver (1953), Come to Daddy... (1950) and The Last Mission (1949). She was married to Evaggelos Livadas. She died on 7 March 2012 in Athens, Greece.- Smaro Stefanidou was born on 4 September 1913 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Four Stairs (1951), Madalena (1960) and Gamos Ala... Ellinika (1964). She was married to Vasos Seitanidis. She died on 7 November 2010 in Athens, Greece.
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Melina Mercouri was born in Athens, Greece on October 18, 1920. An early woman activist, she was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977. Later Miss Mercouri was to become the first woman to hold a Senior cabinet post "Minister of Culture" in the Greek government. In 1971 she wrote her autobiography titled "I Was Born Greek." Melina wed actor Jules Dassin in 1966 and remained married to him until her death in 1994. Melina Mercouri died of lung cancer in New York City, on March 6, 1994.- Ilia Livykou was born in 1919 in Heraklio Crete, Greece. She was an actress, known for Sta synora tis prodosias (1968), Enas delikanis (1963) and Antigone (1961). She was married to Agisilaos Kozyris. She died on 6 September 2002.
- Kaiti Lambropoulou was born in 1926 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Shepherdess' Lover (1956), Ti ekanes ston polemo Thanasi (1971) and To theatro tis Defteras (1970). She was married to Giorgos Roussos. She died on 31 January 2011 in Athens, Greece.
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Margarita Papageorgiou was born on 1 January 1935 in Greece. She was an actress, known for The Happy Beginning (1954), The Ogre of Athens (1956) and The Magic City (1954). She died on 24 January 2021 in Greece.- Actress
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Vasiliadou was born in 1897, in Athens, Greece. Her real name was Georgia Athanasiou. She was obliged to leave school early and work as a shop girl, in order to help her family. She made her stage debut in 1918, but began her studies at the Gennadeios Phonetic School in 1923 and appeared in some operas. She then worked with the major theater companies of the period (Kyveli , Marika Kotopouli, Dimitris Myrat), playing a wide range of parts. In the mid-1930s she decided to retire, but Alekos Sakellarios offered her a small part in the 1939 musical comedy "Koritsia tis pantreias"; that was the genesis of a second career for the middle-aged actress, who went on to star in many comedies and revues and created personal stage groups until the late 1960s. She also made a tentative movie debut in 1930, but became one of the all-time greats of the Greek cinema during the 1950s, when she starred in extremely popular comedies like I oraia ton Athinon (1954), in which Nikos Tsiforos played with her unconventional external appearance, and The Auntie from Chicago (1957), in which director-writer Alekos Sakellarios cast her as a wealthy Greek-American who returns to Greece after thirty years and brings a fresh lifestyle to the family of her conservative brother. She died in 1980, but is always fondly remembered by Greek audiences.- Antigoni Valakou was born in 1930 in Kavala, Greece. She was an actress, known for Golfo, Girl of the Mountains (1955), Heaven Is Ours (1953) and The Road with the Acacias (1954). She died on 11 November 2013 in Greece.
- She studied theatre at Marika Kotopouli's drama school. She worked with Karolos Koun Art Theatre. She played at "Blood Wedding" (Federico García Lorca) and "The glass Menagerie" (Tennessee Williams) in the late forties. She also worked with Mrs Katerina (famous Greek actress at that time) and with Kostas Mousouris's group in the early fifties. In the mid fifties she created a group with two Greek actors, Dimitris Horn and Giorgos Pappas. In the sixties she gave unforgettable performances with her own group. One of these performances was "A streetcar named desire" where she played Blanche du Bois. In 1967 she suffered the onset of cancer. Although she was seriously ill, she continued to appear on stage until 1982 (one year before her death). Her last appearance was as Sarah in a play which is widely known from the movie Children of a Lesser God (1986). At that time she no voice at all, the cancer having deprived her of it.
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Aliki Vougiouklaki was born in 1934 (or 1933, according to some sources), in Maroussi Attikis, Greece. She studied at the Drama School of the Greek National Theater and made her stage debut in a 1953 Athens production of Molière's "Le malade imaginaire". Around the same time she made her movie debut in To pontikaki (1954). The late 1950's was her breakthrough period: she starred in a successful revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" (as Eliza Doolittle) and took the leading part in a very popular movie, Maiden's Cheek (1959). She instantly became Greece's most popular star, created her personal stage group (with a repertory including Aristophanes' "Lysistrata", Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" and Sophocles' "Antigone") and starred in many films, light comedies and melodramas (in many of them she co-starred with Dimitris Papamichael, who was her husband and theater partner during 1965-1974). Her film Ypolohagos Natassa (1970) has been the biggest moneymaker in the history of Greek cinema.- Aliki Georgouli was born in 1933. She was an actress and writer, known for The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (1959), The Road with the Acacias (1954) and The Tomboy (1959). She was married to Alekos Alexandrakis. She died on 25 July 1995 in Athens, Greece.
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Irene Papas was born on 3 September 1929 in Chilimodion, Corinth, Greece. She was an actress and director, known for The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Message (1976) and Electra (1962). She was married to José Kohn and Alkis Papas. She died on 14 September 2022 in Chiliomodion, Corinthia, Greece.- Zoe Laskari was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1959 she won the title of "Miss Greece" and two years later she played the female lead in Giannis Dalianidis's youth melodrama _Katiforos, O (1961)_. The success of that film made Laskari a star; she signed an exclusive contract with Finos Film, the most powerful Greek studio of the period, and appeared in many films, musicals, comedies and melodramas (most of them were directed by the prolific Dalianidis, who became her mentor). She made her stage debut in the late 1960s, but really concentrated on theater after the decline of the Greek commercial cinema in the mid-1970s; her stage work includes Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (as Martha), Euripides' "The Trojan Women" (as Eleni), Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" etc.
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At the beginning of her career she played several roles at the Greek National Theatre with Katina Paxinou and Alexis Minotis. At the same time she appeared at several movies and she became a star, a protagonist at once. she creates her own personal groups and plays mostly comedy with (1960) great successs.In 1968 she gets married to Kostas Kazakos and they create their own group on stage. They stage plays of Albee (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf) Ibsen (Hedda Gabler), and the ancient Greek tragics Sophocles (Electra, Oedipus Rex), Euripides (Medea). Her last appearence on stage was at Loula Anagnostakis (a female Greek author) play "Diamonds and Blues".- Actress
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Maro Kodou was born on 21 June 1934 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress, known for And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband (1965), What If... (2012) and Antigone (1961).- Actress
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Mary Chronopoulou was born in 1933, in Athens, Greece. She studied at the Drama School of the Greek National Theater, where she made her stage debut in 1953 as a member of the Chorus in Euripides' "Hippolytus". She had a fruitful theatrical career, appearing in many plays, like Lillian Hellmann's "The Little Foxes" (as Regina), Tennesse Williams' "The Fugitive Kind" (as Carol), John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" (as Alison Porter)and Maxim Gorky's "The Enemies" (as Tatiana Bartin). She was very active in films, too, playing a wide variety of parts in comedies, musicals, melodramas and film noirs. She also sang in some of her plays and movies; some of the songs she performed in 1960's musicals are still popular today in Greece.- Elli Fotiou was born in October 1940 in Piraeus, Greece. She is an actress, known for Epistrofi (1965), The Fear (1966) and One-Penny Youth (1967). She is married to Stefanos Linaios.
- Lili Papayanni was born in 1935 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for To theatro tis Defteras (1970), Ekdromi (1966) and Mia trelli... trelli oikogeneia (1965). She was married to Andreas Filippides. She died on 12 May 2015 in Athens, Greece.
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Olga Karlatos was born on 20 April 1945 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress, known for Purple Rain (1984), Zombie (1979) and Once Upon a Time in America (1984). She was previously married to Arthur Rankin Jr. and Nikos Papatakis.- Betty Arvaniti was born on 4 August 1939 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress, known for The Dark Side of the Sun (1983), The Dawn of Victory (1971) and To koroidaki tis prigipessas (1972).
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Rena Vlahopoulou was born in 1923 in Corfu, Greece. She was an actress and producer, known for The Girl from Corfu (1956), A Greek Woman in the Harem (1971) and I Rena einai 'off-side' (1972). She was married to Giorgos Lafazanis, Giannis Kostopoulos and Kostas Vasileiou. She died on 29 July 2004 in Athens, Greece.