
Melpo Zarokosta
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1933-05-07 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Piraeus, Greece
Melpo Zarokosta
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2013)
Strangers in the House
as Agapi
(2006)
Extended Play
as Grandmother
(1990)
(1989)
(1988)
Life Sentence
as Elsa's mother
(1985)
Θυμήσου τον Σεπτέμβρη
as Narrator (voice)
(1985)
(1982)
Turning Point
as Efi
(1981)
Τα Τσακάλια
as Eleni's Mother
(1972)
Aliki the Dictator
as Κα Φιρφιρίκου
(1971)
Αεροσυνοδός
as Martha Valma-Dupon
(1970)
(1970)
A Funny Girl
as Λαίδη
(1970)
Love forever
as Nurse
(1969)
The Leventopaido
as Nora Athanasiou
(1969)
The Countess of Fabrica
as Bianca Katakouzinou
(1969)
The Man Who Returned from the Plates
as Lemonia Louna
(1967)
Some tired boys
as Mrs. Maltezou
(1966)
My wife went mad
as Giouli
(1966)
All Men Are the Same
as Angela
(1965)
A Matter of Earnestness
as Nanta Mavrogialourou
(1964)
The Orgies Villa
as Eva
(1964)
Divorce, Greek Style
as Anna Madelou
(1961)
Death Will Return
as Aliki
(1960)
Papadopoulou family
as Marina Papadopoulou
(1959)
Maiden's Cheek
as Popi Alexiou
Crew
(1990)
Eisai to laheio mou
Writer
(1988)
Kai petaei kai... pidaei
Writer
(1985)
Θυμήσου τον Σεπτέμβρη
Writer
(1975)
The Possessed
Writer
(1970)
Η ανταρσία των 10
Writer