Martha Vourtsi
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Martha Vourtsi was born in 1937, in Athens, Greece. She studied acting
at the Drama School of "Theatro Technis" and made her professional
stage debut in a 1958 Athens production of
Carlo Goldoni's "Locandiera". She
collaborated with many important stage groups, appearing in diverse
roles: she played Sarah Muller in
Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine",
Hecuba in Euripides' "The Trojan Women",
Mother Superior in Rogers - Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music", Asta in
Iakovos Kabanellis' "I Avli ton
Thavmaton" etc. She also became very popular appearing in more than 30
films during the 1960's; most of them were melodramas, in which she was
typecast as a poor girl who falls in love with an upper-class man.
