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- Recitazione
- 7 maggio 1933 · Piraeus, Greece
- 16 gennaio 2026
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Αστέρας Ραχούλας · Mpermpilo
- Evdeki Yabancılar · Agapi
- Κλινική Περίπτωση · κα Στέλλα
- Πέντε Λεπτά Ακόμα · Grandmother
- Εντιμότατοι Κερατάδες
- Γάμος με τα Όλα του · μαμά
- Βελούδο από μετάξι · Κάκια
- Παππούδες εν δράσει · Ελένη
- Δανεικός πατέρας · Φρόσω, μητέρα
- Ο χήρος, η χήρα και τα χειρότερα · Σιλβή, μητέρα Λουκίας
- Είσαι Το Λαχείο Μου · Sceneggiatura
- Ο καπετάνιος και η χορεύτρια
- Επικίνδυνος Έρωτας
- Ισόβια · Elsa's mother
- Και Πετάει... Και Πηδάει · Sceneggiatura
- Ζωή και κότα · Sceneggiatura
- Η στρίγγλα ήταν άγγελος
- Θυμήσου τον Σεπτέμβρη · Narrator (Voce), Sceneggiatura
- Αθήνα-Νέα Υόρκη: Το μεγάλο κόλπο
- Η Στροφή · Efi
- Τα Τσακάλια · Eleni's Mother
- Προσκλητήριο στη μάνα · Sceneggiatura
- Η Δαιμονισμένη · Sceneggiatura
- Η Αλίκη Δικτάτωρ · Κα Φιρφιρίκου
- Αεροσυνοδός · Martha Valma-Dupon
- Ένα Αστείο Κορίτσι · Λαίδη
- Η ανταρσία των 10 · Sceneggiatura
- Μια Τρελή... Τρελή... Σαραντάρα · Kaiti
- Αγάπη Για Πάντα · Nurse
- Το Λεβεντόπαιδο · Nora Athanasiou
- Ο Άνθρωπος που Γύρισε από τα Πιάτα! · Lemonia Louna
- Η Κόμησσα της Φάμπρικας · Bianca Katakouzinou
- Κάτι Κουρασμένα Παλικάρια · Mrs. Maltezou
- Η Γυναίκα Μου Τρελλάθηκε · Giouli
- Όλοι οι άνδρες ειναι ίδιοι · Angela
- Υπάρχει Και Φιλότιμο · Nanta Mavrogialourou
- Η Βίλλα Των Οργίων · Eva
- Διαζύγιο αλά Ελληνικά · Anna Madelou
- Ο θάνατος θα ξανάρθει · Aliki
- Οικογένεια Παπαδοπούλου · Marina Papadopoulou
- Το Ξύλο Βγήκε Απ' τον Παράδεισο · Popi Alexiou