Actor: Anna Kyriakou

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Birthday: 1929-01-17
Born in: Athens, Greece
Biography: Anna Kyriakou (Athens, January 17, 1929) is a Greek actress She studied at the Drama School of the National Theater as well as at the Charles Dullin School in Paris (1954-1956), with Jean Vilar as her teacher. She made her first theatrical appearance as a teenager at the REX Theater with the Marikas Kotopoulis troupe in the play "Carmen". Collaboration with the troupes Manolidou-Pappa, Vassilis Logothetidis, Katerinas, Manos Katrakis followed. At the National Theater she participated in leading roles in 34 plays from 1960 to 1981! In 1982 she collaborated with "Aplo Theatro" of Ant. Antipa - Chr. Citizen in the opening act of the play "The Tastes of Mr. Sloan". Her appearance in the cinema was also notable: "Drunk" (1950), "Liar Wanted" (1961), "Groom Wanted Urgently" (1971), "Safe Sex" (1999), The Cry Came Out of Heaven " (2001), "Oxygono" (2003) etc. She took part in many TV series, from "He and That", "Our Neighbor" and "Yougerman" in the 1970s, to "The Three Graces" (1989 - 1992) in which she played the legendary Aunt Bebeka. She appeared in a guest role in "Constantinos and Helens", playing the role of Aunt Maros, as well as in "Seven Deadly Mothers-in-Law", where she played the evil mother-in-law. Her theatrical repertoire on the radio is particularly rich, in the well-known shows "The theater on the radio", "The theater of Monday" etc.

Known for

Zorba the Greek

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
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Zorba the Greek

1964

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Safe Sex

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.
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Blackmail Boy

In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure
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Blackmail Boy

2003

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Crying... Silicon Tears

This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but all her dreams fall apart when posh Tzela "steals" the love of her beloved one... A couple of flash backs, following their families roots back to WW2 and the Turkish domination, and a hidden secret will unfold the story's ending..
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Crying... Silicon Tears

2001

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Liar Wanted

A sharp altercation will pave the way for a brilliant career when a shameless liar meets his future employer: a resourceful parliamentarian. But, what happens when he tells one lie too many? Is his flair for fiction always beneficial?
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Liar Wanted

1961

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Lily of the Harbor

Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife and his adopted son, Andreas, who is about to sit for examinations in order to become a lieutenant. However, a terrible secret burdens his soul. He has a daughter, Agni, whom he had years ago when he had an affair with Maria, a prostitute from Troumpa. Maria, before she died, expressed the wish that Giakoumis recognize their daughter as his child. He, however, refused, since Agni ended up becoming a prostitute. The girl, to take revenge on her father, starts an affair with her half-brother with the intention of dragging him down into the mud. In the end, however, she falls in love with him, and this love blesses everyone and everything.
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Lily of the Harbor

1952

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Poisonous Women

It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.
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5.3
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Poisonous Women

1993

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Groom Urgently Wanted

A mature woman, a widow with a daughter of marrying age, is trying to rebuild her life, but all the men she approaches are interested in her daughter and not herself. After several failed attempts, she eventually manages to find a man of her age.
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Groom Urgently Wanted

1971

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Above all... Coolness

Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to poor children for free, their boss, incensed, chases them off, and they take refuge in a nightclub, where they disguise themselves as female dancers. One misunderstanding follows another, until the impresario seeks them out, offering them a job as a comedy routine.
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Above all... Coolness

1951

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Father-in-Law With a Heart of Gold

A few hours after the arrival of Aristeidis (Dinos Iliopoulos), Mary's (Kakia Analyti) soon to be fiance, her father Andreas (Vasilis Diamantopoulos), an upstanding citizen, lies about having a meeting with the Bishop and instead goes to meet his neighbor Betty (Anna Kyriakou). Aristeidis, on his way to Mary's house as a series of misfortunes and ends up in a fight with Andreas (whom he does not know) while he is with Betty at a studio apartment.
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Father-in-Law With a Heart of Gold

1959

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The 4 Stairs

Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to spread her wings in Athens. But, he refuses to give up on her. Will she ever know that love awaits at the villa with the four marble stairs?
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The 4 Stairs

1951

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