Aliki Vougiouklaki(1934-1996)
- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Aliki Vougiouklaki was born in 1934 (or 1933, according to some
sources), in Maroussi Attikis, Greece. She studied at the Drama School
of the Greek National Theater and made her stage debut in a 1953 Athens
production of Molière's "Le malade imaginaire".
Around the same time she made her movie debut in
To pontikaki (1954). The late
1950's was her breakthrough period: she starred in a successful revival
of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion"
(as Eliza Doolittle) and took the leading part in a very popular movie,
To xylo vgike apo ton Paradeiso (1959).
She instantly became Greece's most popular star, created her personal
stage group (with a repertory including
Aristophanes' "Lysistrata",
Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of
Youth" and Sophocles' "Antigone") and starred
in many films, light comedies and melodramas (in many of them she
co-starred with
Dimitris Papamichael, who was her
husband and theater partner during 1965-1974). Her film
Ypolohagos Natassa (1970) has
been the biggest moneymaker in the history of Greek cinema.
