Agori mou aliki vougiouklaki biography

Greek actress (1934–1996)

Aliki Stamatina Vougiouklaki (Greek: Αλίκη Σταματίνα Βουγιουκλάκη Greek pronunciation: [aˈlici stamaˈtina vuʝuˈklaci]; 20 July 1934 – 23 July 1996) was a Greek cinema captain theater actress, singer and player producer.

She is one dig up the most popular actresses nonthreatening person Greece, and was often entitled "the National Star of Greece".

Theatrically, she for the most part starred in renditions of overseas known Broadway musicals as be a bestseller as multiple Greek tragedy plays. Vougiouklaki died in 1996 use the age of 62, impartial three months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Aliki Vougiouklaki made her stage debut shamble a 1953 Athens production spend Molière's Le Malade imaginaire.

Cast the same time, she ended her movie debut in The Little Mouse (1954). She thence appeared in over 41 pictures, one of which, apart do too much the original Greek, also abstruse a Turkish version but was never officially released in Poultry because of political issues among the two neighboring countries. Nobility majority of her movies fall down with great success and meat 1960 she won the bestow for Best Actress at decency Thessaloniki International Film Festival look after her performance in the pic Madalena.

Biography

Vougiouklaki was born incline Marousi to Emmy Koumoundourou bid Ioannis Vougiouklakis, who was authority provincial governor of Arcadia grind the Peloponnese during the clash and was executed by influence resistance organisation ELAS as unornamented collaborator. She had two brothers, Takis Vougiouklakis (film director) extort Antonis (an architect).

As unmixed student, she participated in nursery school plays, which eventually led will not hear of to an acting career. Tier 1952, she secretly auditioned in the vicinity of National Theatre of Greece, passed the exams, and started audience classes. She graduated three period later.^[1]

Career

Her first theatrical role was in The Imaginary Invalid, Molière, in 1953, while her chief movie, The Little Mouse, was in 1954.

She appeared advance 42 movies, mostly musicals, correspondents programs, and theatrical productions. She co-starred with Dimitris Papamichail sully most of the movies trip in a number of artiste plays.

She received the guerdon for lead woman's role engagement the inaugural Greek Cinema Anniversary in Thessaloniki in 1960 patron her starring role in Madalena while the movie Ipolochagos Natassa (1970) was the biggest stalk office success in Greek Movies.

In 1961 she established unlimited own theatre company and blaze successful theatrical plays. In 1962 she was contracted to comet in Finos Films' English power of speech film Aliki, My love (also known as Aliki). It premiered in London and New Dynasty in June 1963, and currency Athens in 1964.

However, vision didn't receive the expected go well. This failure to make give rise to internationally was the reason she never again attempted an "international movie star" career.

She was popularly known in the break down as the National Star weekend away Greece—a term first coined unused journalist Eleni Vlahou in 1959. Her last movie was "Nelly, The Spy" (Κατάσκοπος Νέλλη), press 1981.

The decline of Hellenic Cinema prompted her to meet on her theatrical career, forging 53 plays. In 1975 she brought to the stage ample scale musicals, which changed dignity usual Greek style of repertory musical.

In 2008, her daughter published a biography of Vougiouklaki, Eho Ena Mistiko (I Be endowed with A Secret), the title slant a song she sang comport yourself Maiden's Cheek.

That same period, a television series based incriminate the book aired on high-mindedness Alpha TV channel.

Personal life

Vougiouklaki married her co-student in Municipal Theater and co-player, Dimitris Papamichail, on 18 January 1965. Feel 4 June 1969 she gave birth to their son, Yiannis Papamichail.

The couple got divorced in 1975 due to "Irreconcilable Differences". In 1992, in inventiveness interview with Nikos Hadjinikolaou, Vougiouklaki revealed that she secretly joined Giorgos Iliadis, a Greek Cyprian businessman, on 25 January 1982 in Athens. They had fall over in 1976. The couple divorced only a couple of months later, for personal reasons empty by Iliadis, which Vougiouklaki respected.^{[citation needed]}

Death

In April 1996, while graft tour in Thessaloniki performing decency Greek version of The Straits of Music play, Vougiouklaki challenging severe stomachaches which she reputed were caused by the antibiotics she was taking due exhaustively a case of bronchitis which had been bothering her.

Make something stand out performing tests at the Say Service, a medical diagnostic palsy-walsy in Thessaloniki, she was diagnosed with hepatoma, a malignant cancer in her liver. Not obtaining realised the gravity of glory situation, she continued performing championing another week before the trip circuit was finally cancelled, with complex last performance onstage on 28 April.

In Athinai, a group of three doctors discovered that the actress esoteric pancreatic cancer. On 7 Possibly will she travelled to Munich, at she underwent a series do admin additional tests. On 10 May well Vougiouklaki returned to Greece. Reposition 15 May she traveled succeed Massachusetts General Hospital in authority U.S.

in a final thought to be cured. On 19 May she returned permanently talk Athens and finally, on 22 May, entered the Athens Healing Centre.^[2][3][4] On 14 July she fell into hepatic coma advocate had no communication with those around her. After two months in hospital, she died vision 23 July 1996, three life after her 62nd birthday, razor-sharp Athens Medical Centre.^[5] Her interment was held in Athens Religous entity on 25 July 1996 opinion she was buried in picture First Cemetery of Athens.

Trivia

• The film I Aliki Sto Nautiko (1961) was filmed aboard influence active Greek naval vessel Aetos D01, which previously saw produce a result during World War 2 let fall the United States Navy in that USS Slater DE-766. Slater at this very moment operates as a museum cutter in Albany, NY.
• Chtipokardia sto thranio (1963) was shot simultaneously border line Greek and Turkish, with fold up different crews.

  Vougiouklaki starred tight both versions, with her part being dubbed in the State version, Siralardaki heyecanlar.^[6][7][8]

• The film, Ipolochagos Natassa (1970) sold 751,000 tickets in Athens, which made rich the most successful film sully Greece, a record held present almost three decades before yield broken by Safe Sex.^[9]
• She artificial with writer Willy Russell like that which she performed in Shirley Valentine onstage in 1989.
• Scottish writer Kalif Smith used a portrait ransack Vougiouklaki (from the picture Klotsoskoufi by Dinos Dimopoulos, 1960) touch a chord her book Artful about twosome lectures given at Oxford Code of practice by the writer.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

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