Kostas Karras(1936-2012)
- Actor
Costas Carras was born in 1938, in Athens, Greece. He studied Political
Sciences (in London) and acting at the Pellos Katselis's Drama School of the National
Theater of Greece. He graduated from the Pellos Katselis Drama School
in 1963 and the same year he made his stage debut in Agatha Christie's "The
Mouse Trap". He then started a fruitful collaboration with Ellie Lambeti,
appearing in, among others, Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" (as Paul
Parker) and Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" (as Stanley Kowalski).
He then created personal stage groups and scored personal hits in Nikolay Gogol's "The Diary of a Madman" and Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" (as Charles). He also appeared in several movies; he made his movie debut
in 1961 and gave his best screen performance in Iphigénie (1977) as Menelaus.
From 2000 to 2007 he had also been a member of the Greek Parliament.
