Melpo Zarokosta
Acting · Writing
Народився 7 травня 1933, Piraeus, Greece
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.
Фільмографія
- Asteras Rachoulas — Mpermpilo
- 2013Strangers in the House — Agapi
- Clinical Case — κα Στέλλα
- 2006Extended 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
- 1990Eisai to laheio mou — Writer
- 1989The Captain and Dancer
- 1989Επικίνδυνος Έρωτας
- 1988And It Flies... And It Lies — Writer
- 1988Life Sentence — Elsa's mother
- 1987Ζωή και κότα — Writer
- 1987Η στρίγγλα ήταν άγγελος
- 1985Remember September — Narrator (voice), Writer
- 1985Αθήνα-Νέα Υόρκη: Το μεγάλο κόλπο
- 1982Turning Point — Efi
- 1981The Jackals — Eleni's Mother
- 1979Προσκλητήριο στη μάνα — Writer
- 1975The Possessed — Writer
- 1972Aliki the Dictator — Κα Φιρφιρίκου
- 1971Air hostess — Martha Valma-Dupon
- 1970A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman — Kaiti
- 1970A Funny Girl — Λαίδη
- 1970Love forever — Nurse
- 1970Η ανταρσία των 10 — Writer
- 1969The Countess of Fabrica — Bianca Katakouzinou
- 1969The Leventopaido — Nora Athanasiou
- 1969The Man Who Returned from the Plates — Lemonia Louna
- 1967Some tired boys — Mrs. Maltezou
- 1966All Men Are the Same — Angela
- 1966My wife went mad — Giouli
- 1965A Matter of Earnestness — Nanta Mavrogialourou
- 1964Divorce, Greek Style — Anna Madelou
- 1964The Orgies Villa — Eva
- 1961Death Will Return — Aliki
- 1960The Papadopoulou Family — Marina Papadopoulou
- 1959Maiden's Cheek — Popi Alexiou