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Olia Lazaridou (Athens, 13 March 1954) is a Greek actress and director.
The Wretches Are Still Singing
1979
Olia Lazaridou (Athens, 13 March 1954) is a Greek actress and director.
Her father was a radio producer and advertiser. She studied acting at the Drama School of the Art Theatre where she performed, as an actress, in tragedies and in the play Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Giorgos Lazanis. In 1986 she went to France where she attended classes at the school of Antoine Vitez.
Lazaridou became known to the general public through her frequent film appearances in the 1980s. Her first film appearance was in a small role in Nikos Koundouros' film 1922 in 1978. She has starred in a total of 17 films and has twice won the Best Actress award at the Thessaloniki Greek Film Festival for the films The Stigma in 1982 and Terirem in 1987 while in the same year she also won the Best Supporting Actress award for the film Archangel of Passion. In 2005 she was awarded for her entire body of work. The 46th Thessaloniki Film Festival featured special screenings in her honor of the films The Rags Still Sing by Nikos Nikolaidis, Invincible Lovers by Stavros Tsiolis, The Stigma by Pavlos Tassios, and The Nostalgist by Eleni Alexandraki. Lazaridou herself maintains an ambivalent attitude towards her film appearances.
Gender
Female
Birthday
March 13, 1954
Birthplace
Kolonaki, Athens, Greece
Also Known As
I'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers
2002
1922
1978
The Wretches Are Still Singing
1979
Paradise
2011
Terirem
1987
Olga Robards
1989
Varieté
1985
Before the End of the World
1996
Άλκηστη
1986
Stigma
1982
Last Journey
2022
Threatre
1986
Stubborn Elsa
1991
Potlatch
1987
Directing Hell
2011
Rare Land
2022
Parangelia!
1980
Invincible Lovers
1988
The Woman Who Missed Home
2005