Zoi Laskari(1942-2017)
- Actress
Zoe Laskari was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1959 she won the title
of "Miss Greece" and two years later she played the female lead in
Giannis Dalianidis's youth melodrama _Katiforos, O (1961)_. The success of that film made
Laskari a star; she signed an exclusive contract with Finos Film, the
most powerful Greek studio of the period, and appeared in many films,
musicals, comedies and melodramas (most of them were directed by the
prolific Dalianidis, who became her mentor). She made her stage debut
in the late 1960s, but really concentrated on theater after the decline
of the Greek commercial cinema in the mid-1970s; her stage work
includes Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (as Martha),
Euripides' "The Trojan Women" (as Eleni), Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the
Park" etc.
