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Melpo Zarokosta
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 G…
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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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2016
Asteras Rachoulas
TV show Mpermpilo
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2013
Strangers in the House
Movie Agapi
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2011
Clinical Case
TV show κα Στέλλα
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2006
Extended Play
Movie Grandmother
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2006
Honorable Cuckolds
TV show
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2005
Γάμος με τα Όλα του
TV show μαμά
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2004
Βελούδο από μετάξι
TV show Κάκια
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2000
Παππούδες εν δράσει
TV show Ελένη
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1997
Δανεικός πατέρας
TV show Φρόσω, μητέρα
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1993
Ο χήρος, η χήρα και τα χειρότερα
TV show Σιλβή, μητέρα Λουκίας
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1990
Eisai to laheio mou
Movie
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1989
Επικίνδυνος Έρωτας
Movie
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1989
The Captain and Dancer
Movie
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1988
Life Sentence
Movie Elsa's mother
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1988
And It Flies... And It Lies
Movie Writer
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1987
Ζωή και κότα
Movie
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- 1985
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1985
Remember September
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1982
Turning Point
Movie Efi
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1981
The Jackals
Movie Eleni's Mother
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1979
Προσκλητήριο στη μάνα
Movie Writer
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1975
The Possessed
Movie Writer
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1972
Aliki the Dictator
Movie Κα Φιρφιρίκου
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1971
Air hostess
Movie Martha Valma-Dupon
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1970
A Funny Girl
Movie Λαίδη
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1970
Η ανταρσία των 10
Movie Writer
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1970
A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman
Movie Kaiti
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1970
Love forever
Movie Nurse
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1969
The Leventopaido
Movie Nora Athanasiou
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1969
The Countess of Fabrica
Movie Bianca Katakouzinou
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1969
The Man Who Returned from the Plates
Movie Lemonia Louna
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1967
Some tired boys
Movie Mrs. Maltezou
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1966
My wife went mad
Movie Giouli
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1966
All Men Are the Same
Movie Angela
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1965
A Matter of Earnestness
Movie Nanta Mavrogialourou
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1964
The Orgies Villa
Movie Eva
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1964
Divorce, Greek Style
Movie Anna Madelou
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1961
Death Will Return
Movie Aliki
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1960
The Papadopoulou Family
Movie Marina Papadopoulou
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1959
Maiden's Cheek
Movie Popi Alexiou
