She has always been attracted to opposite roles. As he said in an interview with “K” (11/27/2017), she was not interested in playing ladies with feathers and hats. “I even played the killer,” she commented at the time, emphasizing how dynamic and independent she was. actor. “This is how I was in life. rebellious. I wanted everything to go through me,” he added.

OUR Katerina Helmi, who recently passed away at the age of 83, was born in August 1939. He grew up in Plaka, in a family from Kefalonia. Her first research choice was National Theaterfollowed the drama school of Karolos Koun and graduated from the school of Pelos Katselis.

She gained wide popularity thanks to her roles in the most beloved movie Greek movie. Her first appearance in movie took place in 1957 in the film “Barba-Yannis o Kanatas” and this participation cost her a break with Cone. Other films followed in the following years, such as Crime in Kolonaki, Law 4000, Vertigo, Our Love, along with theater.

In 1962, she first played Marina, a prostitute who fell madly in love with her promoter, at the Leek Theatre, a work that was a great success both on stage – it was repeated for three seasons – and in cinema. . Vassilis Georgiadis’ now classic film Red Lights was released in 1963, and her phrase “Don’t go, Doris, I’ll be treated” became one of the most beloved by the Greek moviegoer. During her career, she has appeared in more than 25 films and four television series. She did not hesitate to cooperate in the theater with directors of a new generation, while she was in her eighth decade of life. She also contributed to several books and her autobiography.

She was the wife of Konstantinos Svolopoulos, an academician and emeritus professor of history at the University of Athens, with whom they were childhood friends, later partners, and they married when she was now 50 years old. “That’s where a person decides to be serious, noble, sensitive to his fellow traveler,” he told journalist Yota Sikkas in her 2017 interview.

Unlike her husband, who was a close friend of Konstantinos Karamanlis and director of the Karamanlis Foundation, Katerina Helmi was politically active in PASOK as a member of the Union of Artist-Scholars. In the municipal elections of 1994, he was elected as the Municipal Councilor of the Municipality of Athens from the faction of Theodore Pagalos.

“Time doesn’t scare me, and I didn’t do anything to get better,” she admitted to a journalist and finished her phrase about the fear of death: “I don’t care, as long as I don’t suffer. “