Aleka Paizi

Acting

Народився 1 січня 1919, Heraklio, Greece

Aleka Paizi (Greek: Αλέκα Παΐζη, Heraklion, Crete, 1919 - Athens, 4 February 2009) was a Greek actress. She studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre. Her family was financially comfortable, as her father was a tobacco manufacturer and experienced difficult times when he lost his business. She made her theatre debut in 1941, playing Susanna in Carlo Goldoni's Fan, on the Main Stage of the National Theatre. In 1945 and 1946 she participated in the theatre group "United Artists", which was founded by order of the KKE as the cultural arm of the party. In 1946, she formed a troupe with Dimos Starenios and Tito Vandis, her first husband. She collaborated with the troupe of Kostas Mousouris, Katerina, Elsa Vergi and others. From 1963 to 1966, she performed various roles in plays by the State Theatre of Northern Greece. She made her film debut in 1957, in the film Barba-Yiannis, the juggler. She also played in the films O Mimikos kai imairi by Grigorios Xenopoulos, To paid tou dromo by T. Aliferis, Synikoia to oneiro by Alekos Alexandrakis, etc. Abroad, she worked in Italian cinema. She also appeared on television, most famously in the role of Chrysostomi in Pantheoi by Tasos Athanasiadis, directed by Vasilis Georgiadis. On 28 November 1994, at an event of the Hellenic Theatre Study and Research Centre, she was awarded the "Marika Kotopouli" award for her overall contribution. In 2008, she participated in the exhibition and corresponding photographic album of nude portraits entitled "White Book" by photographer Takis Diamantopoulos. Aleka Paizi was also a leftist activist: she participated in the National Resistance during the Occupation, through EAM and the KKE, she passed through Makronissos, Trikeri, and was arrested several times. After the declaration of the dictatorship in April 1967, she fled abroad. Returning to Greece after the Revolution, she collaborated with Leonidas Trivizas's People's Experimental Theatre, with Manos Katrakis, with Karolos Koun's "Karolos Koun" Art Theatre, etc. She died on 4 February 2009, after a long health crisis, about a month before her starring role in "Moonlight Sonata", a stage adaptation of the poem by Yannis Ritsos, having served the theatre for more than 60 years. She was buried in the Second Cemetery of Athens, in a family grave.

Фільмографія

• 2005Sweet Memory — Katerina
• I Zoi Pou Den Ezisa — Ιουλία
• I Prova tou Nyfikou — Grandmother
• 1994The Butterfly's Dream — La pastora (as Aleka Paisi)
• 1992My Daughter Belongs to Me — Despina
• 1991Quiet Days in August — Αλέκα
• Akrivi mou Sofia — γιαγιά Σοφία Μινέικο
• 1989Gamos sto Perithorio — Foteini Gaziadou
• 1982Roza
• Οι απόμαχοι
• 1980Melodrama?
• 1979Honeymoon — Zaharoula Sahini
• 1974The Perfume of the Lady in Black — Signorina Cardini (as Alexandra Paizi)
• 1973Dirty Weekend — Mother of Norma
• 1970Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It — Italia - The Maid
• 1970Слідство у справі громадянина поза всякими підозрами — Governess
• 1962Dawn on the Third Day — Popi
• 1961Synoikia to Oneiro
• 1960Desires in the Straw
• 1959Erotic Stories — Maritsa's mother
• 1958Mimikos and Mary — Ms Vemer
• 1957The Child of the Street — Magda
• 1957Uncle Giannis, the Potter — Thiresia Veneti