Marika Kotopouli

Marika Kotopouli Χριστίνα Καλογερίκου
Occupation	actress

Marika Kotopouli (Greek: Μαρίκα Κοτοπούλη, May 3, 1887-September 3, 1954) was a major Greek actress.

Biography

Kotopouli was born on May 2, 1887 in Athens. She was the daughter of the Kotopoulos, Dimitris and Elenis.

She appeared into the scene founded in a family periodical in the work The Alpine Car. She distinguished herself mostly into several tragic comedies in Greek and non-Greek works by classic authors including Aeschylus. Other apperances included Goethe and Ibsen. She also used interpretations from the Kotopoulos of different writers that thought they were irreparable. It said that Marika Kotopouli which distinguished herself into foreign used in emphasis, as much more inside the scene and was strong and entered with her roles, that she entered into her beauty and made herself with the difficult spectators. She also acted with Ion Dragoumis util his death around 1930. She married Georgios Helmi in 1923.

Her presentation into the scenic heredity was difficult for many and she participated for example in her greatest artwork values. She participated with Spyros Mélas in Eleftheri Skini in 1929 and 1930. She also acted in western Europe mainly in France and later with the dramaturgist Pandelis Horn (1881-1941) and Flandro in 1925.

Except for the theatre, Kotopouli played in films, in a Greek-Turkish production Bad Road (1933), based on the Grigorios Xenopoulos novel.

Her final appearance was in Syros on March 24, 1953. Marika Kotopouli died on September 3, 1954.

The Marika Kotopouli Museum opened in 1990 is named after, located on Alexandros Panagoulis Street in Zografou east of downtown, it contains expos on contemporary art as well as Athenean architecture from the 1920s, also the Marika Kotopouli Awards founded in 1951 honours Greek actresses.

References

• Gia te Marika Kotopoule kai to theatro sten Hermoupole Ermoupoli, Syros, August 1944 Center for Neohellenic Research of the National Research Foundation, 1996.

References

• This article is a translation from the and the versions
• This article incorporates text from Live-Pedia, licensed under the GFDL

External links

• Marika Kotopouli at IMDb
• Marika Kotopouli Museum
• Biography on Alice in Theaterland