Acting
May 6, 1933
Piraeus, Greece
Melpo Zarokosta
Acting
Biography
Melpo Zarokosta (Piraeus, May 7, 1933 - Athens, January 16, 2026) was a Greek actress. She was born in Piraeus in 1933. She is the daughter of Elias Zarokosta, one of the first Greek actuaries, and Despina Spyropoulou. After the War, she emigrated for a short time to Alexandria, Egypt, and then to Sydney, Australia, where she studied theater at the Metropolitan Theater and at the Canandale School of Radio Studies, directing, screenwriting, and acting. She stayed there for 11 years and began her artistic career in television and theater. She performed in Sydney in Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and also Hecuba in Greek for the Greek community. In 1957, she married her first husband, pianist Andreas Diamantidis, and went with him to London, where they stayed for a year. Due to family obligations, she returned to Greece in 1958. Almost simultaneously with her return to Athens, she began her collaboration with the company of Lambros Konstantaras. There she met her future second husband, also an actor and director, Victor Pagoulatos, with whom she had a son, Alexander. She was involved in translating and adapting plays for theater, radio and television. She wrote her first play, The Women's Tutoring School, in which she co-starred with Dinos Iliopoulos, Nora Valsami and Nikos Apergi. Since then, several of her own plays have been performed in Athens and the province. She was the first female member of the Greek Playwrights' Society since 1960, a member of the Board of Directors. since 1990 and President of the Company from 1999 to 2001.
Feature Films (29)
Young Alexis Vranas returns to Athens form studying abroad and starts working for a major company. There, he will meet and fall in love with a secretary, Varvara Papadopoulos.
The Papadopoulou Family
The childhood traumas of a solitary young man have a determinative effect on the formation of his personality and sexual behavior and have turned him into a rapist with the angelic face. One day, the young man, Giorgos, confides his secret to a friend and colleague named Toni, who advises him to visit a psychiatrist. At the same time, he encourages him to have a relationship with a colleague of theirs named Kaiti, who seems to be interested in him. But the police, who had been looking looking for the perpetrator all this time, finally appear.
Life Sentence
Anna thinks up a clever plan to bring her husband Manos on track. Having discovered that he is cheating on her, after only two years of marriage, she pretends to be crazy and decides to pay him back in the same coin.
My wife went mad
Dinos captain in gkazadiko returns to Greece after Tesserete year absence. He decides to marry his girlfriend, buy a house and to stay on the land for a long time. However, As soon as presses the foot in the house, faces one surprise after another ...
The Captain and Dancer
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.
Death Will Return
Television & Series (8)
Markos is a wealthy big-shot surgeon who in a twisted turn of events, finds himself working at a small village in the countryside. There he must get along with the kindhearted and naive villagers who like him despite him being anti-social and peculiar. Will he fight back falling in love? Will the villagers show him a calmer approach to life?
Clinical Case
The series is about a football team in a village in Greece called "rahoula". Aris zagoritis, a professional coach returns to rahoula as a coach to train the team, help them win the trophy and face their biggest rival "paradeisi".
Asteras Rachoulas
This is a series of stand-alone comedy episodes on the theme of infidelity. Each episode deals with a different type of "cuckold" man and how he reacts to his wife's infidelity. The connecting link of all the stand-alone episodes is the "ghost" couple, Eva - Theophilos. After their death, they are given a second chance at life as long as they win a bet. Eva will have to break up more couples than Theophilos can keep together. Their fights are proverbial and in order to achieve their goal, they find inventive ways to get involved in the lives of the "cuckold" heroes and turn them upside down...!
