Acting
Feb 7, 1956
Athinaio, Arcadia, Greece
Kostas Triantafyllopoulos
Acting
Biography
Kostas Triantafyllopoulos (Greek: Κώστας Τριανταφυλλόπουλος; 8 February 1956 – 21 August 2021) was a Greek actor. After studying at the Theodosiadis Drama School of Athens, he graduated in 1977 and played a wide variety of roles on stage from Greek tragedy, Aristophanes and Shakespeare to contemporary American drama (Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Thornton Wilder, Sam Shepard). He performed frequently at the National Theatre of Greece, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and at many other major Greek theatres, appearing in both classics and new works. His most notable stage roles include: Joe Keller in All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Kilroy in Camino Real by Tennessee Williams, Erie Smith in Hughie by Eugene O'Neill, Frank Gulick in Tone Clusters by Joyce Carol Oates, Juror #3 in 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose, Old Man in Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, Joseph Garcin in No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare, Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Gilbert Horn in Knives in Hens by David Harrower, Creon in Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, Xanthias in The Frogs and Lamachus in The Acharnians both by Aristophanes. From November 1998 to July 1999 and from July 2002 to March 2003 he participated in the world tours of the National Theatre of Greece with the tragedies Medea by Euripides (as Creon), Electra (as Paedagogus) and Antigone (as Guard)[6] both by Sophocles. The tour included performances in France, Australia, Israel, Portugal, United States, Canada, Brasil, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Denmark, Turkey, Bulgaria, China and Japan. Medea was well received by the critics and especially by The New York Times. He appeared in numerous Greek television series and films, such as Ela sti thesi mou, Ta mystika tis Edem, Kaneis de leei s' agapo, Peninta Peninta and Symmathites. He had also established himself as a voice actor, performing the Greek dubbing voices of numerous popular Disney characters such as Pete of the Mickey Mouse universe, Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story, Don Carlton in Monsters University, Cogsworth in the Beauty and the Beast, Django in Ratatouille and Dr. Jumba Jookiba in Lilo & Stitch.
Feature Films (19)
The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.
Welcome to 'All Saints
Martha is a young girl who constantly rejects Peter, her perfect match. Soon she meets Johnny, a young playboy, and they fall in love. Martha tries to shape his character by resisting having sex with him at first, as all his previous girlfriends did. A misunderstanding occurs between the young people in the gang, and Johnny now believes that Martha is rejecting him, so one night he decides to take revenge and rapes her with the help of his two best friends. After realizing what he has done, Johnny decides to leave everything behind, completely changes his life, and flees to Thessaloniki to work with his brother. A few months after overcoming her shock, Martha marries Petros. One day, Johnny has to deliver a shipment of goods to Athens, but his partner in Athens is Petros, and when they meet, Petros insists on having him over for dinner.
Martha: To hroniko enos viasmou
Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.
Froutopia
Television & Series (18)
A couple, after several years of living together, four children, a job, obligations and all the big and small things that everyday life has, decides to go to a marriage psychologist-counselor.
Family
Andreas's biggest weakness is not one, but ... three! His three daughters, ten, fourteen and nineteen years old, are the most valuable he has. He loves them, but with their demands and worries, their worries and their first innocent love stories, they can drive him crazy.
Super Daddy
Revenge is feminine. Nontas is a successful theatrical entrepreneur who also runs other businesses and at the same time maintains relationships with three women. Two wives and a mistress. And he loves all three! His first wife has dynamism, the second has incredible humor and the third with her romance gives color to his life. Nontas has everything under control until a series of unfortunate events brings him face to face with a corpse that needs to be disposed of and a baby that is most likely his.
