Acting
Nov 6, 1951
Thessaloniki, Greece
Penelope Pitsouli
Acting
Biography
Penelope Pitsouli (Greek: Πηνελόπη Πιτσούλη, Thessaloniki, October 3, 1947) is a Greek actress She was born in Thessaloniki where she grew up. After finishing school, she went to the Philosophy School, but eventually re-took the Panhellenic exams and passed the Kindergarten Department in Ioannina. Finally, at the age of 19, she decided to become an actress. Thus, she began her studies at the Dimitris Konstantinidis Drama School, from which she graduated a few years later. She began her career as an actress in the early 1980s. She has worked in both television and theater and cinema. Some of her very popular television appearances were in the series The Stables of Erieta Zaimi, Armchair for Three, Seven Deadly Mother-in-Laws and Pants Down. In cinema, her standout performances were in the films Safe Sex and Strictly Necessary, Are You Keeping a Secret? In the 2020-2023 season, she played in the series Greetings to Platanos, In-Laws from Tirana and Mary, Mary, Mary by Reppas and Papathanasiou.
Feature Films (12)
Two young Greek filmmakers in need of funding for their film titled "The End of Passion" end up seeking the financial aid of an almost forgotten old-time porn-king producer. He agrees to help them while concealing his own secret plan.
Strictly Non-Graphic
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
A forgotten satirical (and occasionally dark) comedy about sex life in the Greek countryside.
Edo einai Valkania!
Sifis is fed up with the smog in central Athens and decides with his family to move to the countryside to get some fresh air. But there, he gets hit by radiation from the Chornobyl nuclear reactor leak. When he decides to return to Athens to buy supplies, the side effects of the radiation begin to take effect, and not only does his hair fall out and he becomes bald, but he also becomes a laughing stock because of a tail that grows out of his backside.
The Man from Chernobyl
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Sweet Country
Marika is an ordinary Greek housewife living with her family in Athens. Her everyday is a living hell.
Occupation: Woman
A muck raker journalist tries to trap the Education Minister, why is rumored to be gay, but he perceived as gay. Dismissed from his job, but becomes the idol of all sexually oppressed. Forced to represent the gay, he decides to establish "alternative" party with the former minister, who represents his lover for electioneering purposes.
Full Pink Ahead
Have you ever thought about what would happen if you suddenly escaped misery and found yourself with a sack of millions? That's what happened to Kimon, and it changed his life and his relationships with his whole family...
Kimon the Nouveau Riche
Director Haritidis undertakes to adapt his friend, Prefect Panagiotis Psomiadis' book about their parents' adventures for the cinema. The book is about two children who unwittingly witness a mafia clash but, more importantly, see where these people hid a treasure. Years later, the two boys, crippled by debt, decide to search for it. Unfortunately for them, a convent has been built on the site. The adventures begin when the two men, now grown up, try to devise ways to enter the convent and search for the treasure undisturbed.
The Pontians: New Generation
The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974.
Stone Years
Gerasimos is a typical example of a family man, living under the oppressive care of his wife, who literally does not let him do anything. But one day another woman enters his life, but unfortunately for him they have a car accident. In order not to be exposed, Gerasimos pretends to have amnesia and thus finds an opportunity to change his life. He throws it out, takes initiative and generally does pretty much the opposite of what he did before. However, this arouses the suspicions of his wife. She, smarter, cuts him off and squeezes him into the housework, which he supposedly did before, making his life unlivable...
Flu, my love
Television & Series (15)
The small Greek village of Platanos (Plane Tree) buries the elderly recluse Vangelas and notifies the deceased's estranged children and grandchildren about his death. Vangela's will leaves 3 million euros to his family, but requires them to move to the village and obey certain terms in order to inherit.
Haireta mou ton Platano
Follows the love of a Greek girl and an Albanian boy and the reactions around their relationship in a "typical" Greek village
In laws from Tirana
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.
