Evgenia Karpouzi was born in Athens, Greece, to a mathematician father and high school teacher mother. She studied under the direction of the Sisters of St. Joseph at a private French school in Thessaloniki, and later by the same Order in Athens. She learned French fluently. When she was a teenager, her father left the family and she continued to live with her mother. Her father died in a car accident in 1971. In 1951 she was accepted at the Greek National Theater, where she studied in the Drama School. The playwright Angelos Terzakis and the director Dimitris Rontiris were among her teachers. Upon graduation, in 1954, she was immediately thrust into starring roles in the theatre, playing alongside actors such as Alexis Minotis and Katina Paxinou.
Movie | 1821 at the Cinema | (archive footage) | 2021-10-14 |
Movie | Erotic Symphony | Eirini / Betty Stergiou | 1972-01-01 |
Movie | Lysistrata | Lysistrati | 1972-09-25 |
Movie | Manto Mavrogenous | Manto Mavrogenous | 1971-01-01 |
Movie | A Woman in the Resistance | Άννα Κολέτη | 1970-01-01 |
Movie | Love and Blood | Foni Yeraka | 1968-01-01 |
Movie | A Knight for Vasoula | Vasoula Liontou | 1968-11-16 |
Movie | He And She | 1967-01-30 | |
Movie | Concert for Machine Guns | Niki | 1967-07-22 |
Movie | Jenny Jenny | Jenny Skoutari | 1966-02-21 |
Movie | A Bullet Through the Heart | Carla | 1966-02-23 |
Movie | A Crazy Family | Mika | 1965-10-25 |
Movie | Lola | Λόλα | 1964-02-17 |
Movie | Miss Manager | Lila Vasileiou | 1964-12-18 |
Movie | A Great Love | Lena | 1964-04-20 |
Movie | The Red Lanterns | Eleni Niculescu | 1963-12-02 |
Movie | Athens by Night | 1962-01-01 | |
Movie | Runaway Bride | Kaiti Alexopoulou | 1962-11-19 |
Movie | Betrayed love | Anna | 1962-06-06 |
Movie | Who Is Margarita? | Margarita Kondostavrou | 1961-01-01 |
Movie | The Island of the Brave | Dona | 1960-01-01 |
Movie | Christina | Hristina | 1960-01-01 |
Movie | The Young Lady's Fool | Julia Karali | 1960-03-14 |
Movie | Date in Corfu | Diana Laniti / Mirka | 1960-02-08 |
Movie | Snow White and the 7 Old Boys | Alexia | 1960-12-26 |
Movie | Wrecks Of Life | 1959-01-01 | |
Movie | Taxeidi me ton erota | Gianna | 1959-01-01 |
Movie | One Street Organ, One Life | Nina | 1958-11-28 |
Movie | She's a Lunatic | Jenny | 1958-04-27 |
Movie | Laterna, Poverty and Carnation | Καίτη | 1957-04-01 |
Movie | Trouble for Fathers | Μπίλλυ Μαυρογιάννη | 1957-01-07 |
Movie | The Lagoon of Desire | Miranda | 1957-08-01 |
Movie | The Auntie from Chicago | Katina Barda | 1957-12-16 |
Movie | The Hurdy-Gurdy | Kaiti | 1955-12-12 |