Melpo Zarokosta
- Acting
- May 7, 1933 · Piraeus, Greece
- January 16, 2026
Biography
Melpo Zarokosta (Piraeus, May 7, 1933 - Athens, January 16, 2026) was a Greek actress. She was born in Piraeus in 1933. She is the daughter of Elias Zarokosta, one of the first Greek actuaries, and Despina Spyropoulou. After the War, she emigrated for a short time to Alexandria, Egypt, and then to Sydney, Australia, where she studied theater at the Metropolitan Theater and at the Canandale School of Radio Studies, directing, screenwriting, and acting. She stayed there for 11 years and began her artistic career in television and theater. She performed in Sydney in Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and also Hecuba in Greek for the Greek community. In 1957, she married her first husband, pianist Andreas Diamantidis, and went with him to London, where they stayed for a year. Due to family obligations, she returned to Greece in 1958. Almost simultaneously with her return to Athens, she began her collaboration with the company of Lambros Konstantaras. There she met her future second husband, also an actor and director, Victor Pagoulatos, with whom she had a son, Alexander. She was involved in translating and adapting plays for theater, radio and television. She wrote her first play, The Women's Tutoring School, in which she co-starred with Dinos Iliopoulos, Nora Valsami and Nikos Apergi. Since then, several of her own plays have been performed in Athens and the province. She was the first female member of the Greek Playwrights' Society since 1960, a member of the Board of Directors. since 1990 and President of the Company from 1999 to 2001.
Known for
Filmography
- Asteras Rachoulas · Mpermpilo
- Strangers in the House · Agapi
- Clinical Case · κα Στέλλα
- Extended Play · Grandmother
- Honorable Cuckolds
- Gamos me ta Ola tou · μαμά
- Βελούδο από μετάξι · Κάκια
- Παππούδες εν δράσει · Ελένη
- Δανεικός πατέρας · Φρόσω, μητέρα
- Ο χήρος, η χήρα και τα χειρότερα · Σιλβή, μητέρα Λουκίας
- Eisai to laheio mou · Writer
- The Captain and Dancer
- Επικίνδυνος Έρωτας
- Life Sentence · Elsa's mother
- And It Flies... And It Lies · Writer
- Ζωή και κότα · Writer
- Η στρίγγλα ήταν άγγελος
- Remember September · Narrator (Voice), Writer
- Αθήνα-Νέα Υόρκη: Το μεγάλο κόλπο
- Turning Point · Efi
- The Jackals · Eleni's Mother
- Προσκλητήριο στη μάνα · Writer
- The Possessed · Writer
- Aliki the Dictator · Κα Φιρφιρίκου
- Air hostess · Martha Valma-Dupon
- A Funny Girl · Λαίδη
- Η ανταρσία των 10 · Writer
- A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman · Kaiti
- Love forever · Nurse
- The Leventopaido · Nora Athanasiou
- The Man Who Returned from the Plates · Lemonia Louna
- The Countess of Fabrica · Bianca Katakouzinou
- Some tired boys · Mrs. Maltezou
- My wife went mad · Giouli
- All Men Are the Same · Angela
- A Matter of Earnestness · Nanta Mavrogialourou
- The Orgies Villa · Eva
- Divorce, Greek Style · Anna Madelou
- Death Will Return · Aliki
- The Papadopoulou Family · Marina Papadopoulou
- Maiden's Cheek · Popi Alexiou