Melpo Zarokosta (Piraeus, May 7, 1933) is a Greek actress.
Melpo Zarokosta (Piraeus, May 7, 1933) is 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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Filmography (Movies)
Strangers in the House
Character:Agapi
Release Date:09/08/2013
Extended Play
Character:Grandmother
Release Date:19/10/2006
Eisai to laheio mou
Character:
Release Date:05/04/1990
The Captain and Dancer
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1989
Life Sentence
Character:Elsa's mother
Release Date:01/10/1988
Θυμήσου τον Σεπτέμβρη
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1985
Αθήνα-Νέα Υόρκη: Το μεγάλο κόλπο
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1985
Turning Point
Character:Efi
Release Date:12/10/1982
Τα Τσακάλια
Character:Eleni's Mother
Release Date:07/06/1981
Aliki the Dictator
Character:Κα Φιρφιρίκου
Release Date:20/03/1972
Αεροσυνοδός
Character:Martha Valma-Dupon
Release Date:01/01/1971
A Funny Girl
Character:Λαίδη
Release Date:26/10/1970
A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman
Character:Kaiti
Release Date:13/04/1970
Love forever
Character:Nurse
Release Date:16/03/1970
The Leventopaido
Character:Nora Athanasiou
Release Date:10/11/1969
The Man Who Returned from the Plates
Character:Lemonia Louna
Release Date:01/01/1969
The Countess of Fabrica
Character:Bianca Katakouzinou
Release Date:01/01/1969
Some tired boys
Character:Mrs. Maltezou
Release Date:13/11/1967
My wife went mad
Character:Giouli
Release Date:19/12/1966
All Men Are the Same
Character:Angela
Release Date:14/08/1966
A Matter of Earnestness
Character:Nanta Mavrogialourou
Release Date:06/12/1965
The Orgies Villa
Character:Eva
Release Date:17/10/1964
Divorce, Greek Style
Character:Anna Madelou
Release Date:13/08/1964
Death Will Return
Character:Aliki
Release Date:12/06/1961
The Papadopoulou Family
Character:Marina Papadopoulou
Release Date:01/01/1960
Maiden's Cheek
Character:Popi Alexiou
Release Date:16/11/1959
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