Olia Lazaridou

Born: 1954-03-13

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.


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The Wretches Are Still Singing

as Vera
Released: 1979-10-04

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together...

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Stigma

as Eleni
Released: 1982-10-13

A young couple (Antonis Kafetzopoulos and Olia Lazaridou) have a baby affected with the Down...

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Parangelia!

as Roula
Released: 1980-10-05

The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for...

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1922

as uncredited
Released: 1978-04-01

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds...

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I'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers

as uncredited
Released: 2002-10-25

Theophilus Palios, owns a small traditional publishing house. He man madly falls in love with...

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Potlatch

as Katerina
Released: 1987-10-15

Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming...

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Varieté

as Anna
Released: 1985-01-18

An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.

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Invincible Lovers

as uncredited
Released: 1988-04-12

Twelve-year-old Vasilis escapes the orphanage, wanders a while in the capital and then takes the...

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The Woman Who Missed Home

as Άννα
Released: 2005-04-01

Anna, married to a husband much older than she, longs to see her island, which is right across...

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Stubborn Elsa

as Elsa
Released: 1991-12-31

A housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food.

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Directing Hell

as uncredited
Released: 2011-05-27

A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and...

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Paradise

as uncredited
Released: 2011-11-09

Marianna returns to Greece on a whim to surprise her boyfriend, secretly plotting to stay with...

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Terirem

as Maria Kavvadia
Released: 1987-10-04

The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering...

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Άλκηστη

as uncredited
Released: 1986-10-03

A writer goes to his hometown, looking for the girl he was in love,when he was young.

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Olga Robards

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-01

In this highly stylized and enigmatic story, Olga uses her cello case as a weapons cache. When...

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Before the End of the World

as uncredited
Released: 1996-11-01

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Prodosia

as Όλγα Μαρκάκη
First aired: 1997-02-20

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