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.

The Wretches Are Still Singing
as VeraFive friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together...
Movie pageStigma
as EleniA young couple (Antonis Kafetzopoulos and Olia Lazaridou) have a baby affected with the Down...
Movie pageParangelia!
as RoulaThe true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for...
Movie page1922
as uncreditedBased on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds...
Movie pageI'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers
as uncreditedTheophilus Palios, owns a small traditional publishing house. He man madly falls in love with...
Movie pagePotlatch
as KaterinaArhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming...
Movie pageInvincible Lovers
as uncreditedTwelve-year-old Vasilis escapes the orphanage, wanders a while in the capital and then takes the...
Movie pageThe Woman Who Missed Home
as ΆνναAnna, married to a husband much older than she, longs to see her island, which is right across...
Movie pageStubborn Elsa
as ElsaA housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food.
Movie pageDirecting Hell
as uncreditedA Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and...
Movie pageParadise
as uncreditedMarianna returns to Greece on a whim to surprise her boyfriend, secretly plotting to stay with...
Movie pageTerirem
as Maria KavvadiaThe mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering...
Movie pageΆλκηστη
as uncreditedA writer goes to his hometown, looking for the girl he was in love,when he was young.
Movie pageOlga Robards
as uncreditedIn this highly stylized and enigmatic story, Olga uses her cello case as a weapons cache. When...
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