Acting
Olia Lazaridou
Olia Lazaridou (Athens, 13 March 1954) is a Greek actress and director.
Her father was a radio producer and advertiser. She studied acting at the Drama School of the Art Theatre where she performed, as an actress, in tragedies and in the play Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Giorgos Lazanis. In 1986 she went to France where she attended classes at the school of Antoine Vitez.
Lazaridou became known to the general public through her frequent film appearances in the 1980s. Her first film appearance was in a small role in Nikos Koundouros' film 1922 in 1978. She has starred in a total of 17 films and has twice won the Best Actress award at the Thessaloniki Greek Film Festival for the films The Stigma in 1982 and Terirem in 1987 while in the same year she also won the Best Supporting Actress award for the film Archangel of Passion. In 2005 she was awarded for her entire body of work. The 46th Thessaloniki Film Festival featured special screenings in her honor of the films The Rags Still Sing by Nikos Nikolaidis, Invincible Lovers by Stavros Tsiolis, The Stigma by Pavlos Tassios, and The Nostalgist by Eleni Alexandraki. Lazaridou herself maintains an ambivalent attitude towards her film appearances.
Filmography
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Η Χαμένη άνοιξη
Prodosia
Potlatch
Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday, a self-des...
The Wretches Are Still Singing
Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of...
Terirem
The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering from cancer. An...
1922
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the persona...
Directing Hell
A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Gre...
Parangelia!
The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his bro...
I'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers
Theophilus Palios, owns a small traditional publishing house. He man madly falls in love with Sia, that is doin...
Paradise
Marianna returns to Greece on a whim to surprise her boyfriend, secretly plotting to stay with him forever, whi...
Olga Robards
In this highly stylized and enigmatic story, Olga uses her cello case as a weapons cache. When she isn’t using...
Stigma
A young couple (Antonis Kafetzopoulos and Olia Lazaridou) have a baby affected with the Down Syndrome. In order...
Rare Land
A young boy slowly drifts into illness. As sight + sound begin to dwindle, his love for life does not…
Last Journey
Famous Greek artists Yannis Aggelakas and Olia Lazaridou read excerpts from the book A Journal of Two Voyages b...
Varieté
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
The Woman Who Missed Home
Anna, married to a husband much older than she, longs to see her island, which is right across the island she l...
Before the End of the World
The universe is a unified and indivisible entity. There are nο independent parts. There is just the WHOLE, the...
Invincible Lovers
Twelve-year-old Vasilis escapes the orphanage, wanders a while in the capital and then takes the train for his...
Άλκηστη
A writer goes to his hometown, looking for the girl he was in love,when he was young.
Stubborn Elsa
A housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food.
Threatre
A Short Film by Christos Vakalopoulos