
Acting
Jan 12, 1958
Athens, Greece
Maria Kavoyianni
Acting
Biography
Maria Kavoianni (Greek: Μαρία Καβογιάννη, Athens, January 13, 1958) is a Greek actress. She was born in 1958. She grew up in Byron, Attica. She studied economics at the Athens University of Economics and Education and pedagogy at the Maraslio Didaskalio. She worked for many years as a teacher. At the same time, she also studied at the Drama School of Karolos Koun, from where she graduated in 1986 together with Kate Konstantinou and Yro Mane. She has performed from very comedic roles, such as Aspasia in Dolce Vita and Corinna in Crimes, to very tragic ones, such as Eleni in Hara Agnotaita. In 2015, she starred in Christoforos Papakaliati's film, Another World.
Feature Films (8)

Eftihis, after being fired from his job, tries to find a new one in Greece, while the economic crisis is at its peak. Along his 'adventure' he meets two people with different morals who mentor him through life.
Thursday the 12th

In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure
Blackmail Boy

Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.
Worlds Apart

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.
Safe Sex

This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but all her dreams fall apart when posh Tzela "steals" the love of her beloved one... A couple of flash backs, following their families roots back to WW2 and the Turkish domination, and a hidden secret will unfold the story's ending..
Crying... Silicon Tears

When Konstadinos misses a flight and returns home unexpectedly, he finds his wife in bed with his best friend. Shocked, he leaves the house without letting them know what he saw and begins wandering in the streets of Athens.
My Best Friend

A rag tag band of noble thieves, steal from obnoxious wealthy tourists who wreak havoc on their home island each summer season.
Mykonos

The seasoned Captain Mitsos Avgoustis stubbornly refuses to retire. The ocean swell has lodged itself in his mind, and the sea simply will not give him back. For twelve years he has been away from Greece—estranged from his family, at odds with the shipping company, yet bound by unshakable ties to the 22 sailors aboard the cargo ship ATHOS III. Defiant and unwilling to obey, he somehow keeps finding cargo, calling at ports, loading and unloading, silently roaming the waters of the Pacific. Day and night, he battles the relentless gales on the lonely voyages of his mind and heart, where the secret he carries has long since dropped anchor.
Swell
Television & Series (27)

Zoe is an everyday woman who lost her smile 25 years ago when her daughter passed away. She works two jobs to make ends meet while her husband and son do not contribute. One night, when a boat falls on her head, Zoe dies and has a metaphysical experience, just before the doctors bring her back to life. Two weeks later, Zoe, confused, is still living a miserable and predictable everyday life. Until an unknown man appears in front of her... Zoe has started to see people who left life unjustly and abruptly. She transforms into a channel of communication between two worlds and her mission is now to help these people close a backlog they left behind before they died. Gradually, she finds again her lost smile and her love for life through the acceptance of death and of others, but also of her personal loss.
Zoe

Katina a smart Smirnia, lives in slums. Atarti introduces her to magic. Erotic filters prove to be infallible. She marries four men, one better than the other. Her spells were found in a dusty trunk, 100 years later at her home in Egina.
The Witches of Smyrna

Vicky Stavropoulou plays the ghost of a woman who, invisible to ordinary mortals, watches, narrates and intervenes for good in various family affairs starring mothers-in-law with many different characters.
7 Deadly Mother-in-Laws

Vicky Stavropoulou plays the ghost of a woman who, invisible to ordinary mortals, watches, narrates and intervenes for good in various family affairs starring mothers-in-law with many different characters.






