Beloved actress died at noon Sunday at the age of 82 years. Martha Karagiannis.

After the loss of Kostas Kazakos and Irini Papas, Greek cinema has become even poorer this week, as one of the most popular stars of the golden era “left”.

Her resume

Marta Karagianni was born on November 6, 1939 in Athens to parents of Pontic origin. Her mother Domna was born in Baku, and her father Harilaos in Ekaterinodar. He grew up in Keratsini.

She studied dancing and from the age of eight she began performing on the Lyric stage, participating in the children’s ballet of Lukia Sakellaropoulou (together with Eleni Prokopiou).

She made her film debut at the age of 17 (1956) in the Finos Films film The Unknown, directed by Oresti Laskow. He did a test at Fino’s studio with Aristidis Karidis Fuchs and Dino Katsuridis.

Her theatrical debut took place in 1957 in the revue “Elephants and Fleas”, where she met Giannis Dalianidis. Napoleon Eleftheriou had previously seen her dancing at the “Se la pen” center and invited her to perform in this revue. Later he collaborated with musical theater entrepreneur Vassilis Burnelis (Acropolis Theatre).

He first appeared on television in the TV series The Road (1977), the script of which was originally signed by Kostas Pretenderis until his death.

The Brilliant Career of Martha Karagiannis

She stood out more with her film career as she was associated with the glamor musicals and comedies of Giannis Dalianidis. Their collaboration began in 1961 in the movie “Liar Wanted” when they were only 21-22 years old.

Her participation in the musical film “Oi thalasses oi handres” (1967) is also characteristic, where she appeared as a purely comedic actress.

She first sang in the film “Captain for the Lament” (1960) the song “How the Wind Blows”, but had a great performance in the film “Mermaids and Dudes” (1968) with the song “The Man I’ll Marry”. She also sang in video film Crazy Crazy Live (1988).

The film “O paras ki o fukaras” is the last film he made outside of Finos, because at that time he signed an exclusive collaboration contract with a major film company. In 1965, he starred in Georgy Konstantinov’s film “5000 Lies”.

In 1969, he would play a dramatic role in Nikos Foskolos’ I Die Every Morning and a comedic role in Dinos Dimopoulos’s The Barber’s Beauty.

Her collaboration with Giannis Dalianidis and Kostas Voutsas began with The Man (1969).

The last film from this period is The Man with the Tricycle (1972) and a few years later he would return with O Podogyros starring Giorgos Lazaridis (1980).

The last time he starred in the films: “I’m dying for you” (2009) and “For Love” (2014).

For theatre, repeatedly participated in the troupe of Georgia Vasiliado and Vassilis Avlonitis. He appeared mainly in inspections with Nikos Stavridis, Kostas Hatzichristos, George Constantinou, Marika Nezer, Nikos Rizo, Yannis Gionakis, Kaiti Belinda, Speranza Vrana, Rena Dor, Rena Vlahopoulou, Oresti Makri, Katerina Julaki, Stavros Parava, Aleko Livaditi, Betty Moshonoy. , Eleni Prokopiou, Vangelis Voulgaridis, Giannis Fermi, Takis Miliadis, Sotiris Moustakas and others.

AT Television in addition to the series “The Road”, he starred in the series “Mikromesaioi” by G. Dalianidis, “Zoya Patini” by Giorgos Konstantinos and “The Seven Deadly Mothers-in-Law”.

Personal life

Martha Karagianni married Dimitris Stefanakos, an Olympiacos football player, in October 1960. The wedding took place in the church of St. George in Kipseli. They had a child who died three days after birth. The couple divorced a few months later.

In 2001, she wrote her autobiography, Love is a Feast.

For this reason, Marta Caragianni loved to travel and declared herself a citizen of the world. Since 1980, he has toured almost all over the world.