Lydia Fotopoulou
Birthday: Born in 1956-06-22 in Kavala, Greece
Deathday: Alive
Lydia Fotopoulou (Kavala, 22 June 1956) is a Greek actress. She was born on 22 June 1956 in Kavala, where she is from, and spent her childhood in Thessaloniki. After finishing school, she began her studies at the Drama School of the State Theatre of Northern Greece. She began her career in theatre in the early 1980s. Her first collaboration was with Andreas Voutsinas. Collaborations with directors Minos Volanakis, Giorgos Vouros and others followed. She first appeared on television in 1991, taking part in the cast of the Scandinavian series Amforans gata, which was filmed in Greece, in a small role. In 1993, she collaborated for the first time with the creator and director Panos Kokkinopoulos in the series of independent episodes of ANT1 Anatomy of a Crime. There that year she starred in the episode "A Simple Family Story" while "Relationships of Love" followed. In the 1995-1996 season, she played Maria in the period series The Straw Hats, based on the novel of the same name. In 1998, she made a guest appearance in the police series Night Bulletin. In the period 2002-2003, she was the narrator in the NET documentary Epoches kai Ssgabries. In the 2007-2008 season, she had one of the main roles in the Alpha TV period series To Deka, directed by Pigi Dimitrakopoulou. In 2015, she returned to television, collaborating with Panos Kokkinopoulos in the story "Purification" of the police series 10th Order.[5] In 2019, she collaborated again with the same director in the series U Fonefesis and the episode "Hyperetria". From October 2020 to 2022, she starred in the ERT1 family comedy series I tourta tis mamas, by Apostolou and Rigas, playing the eccentric grandmother of the Marilou Sekeri family.[6] In 2023, she played Yvonne in the ERT1 series Tritos Orofos. In the 2024-25 season, she starred in the series "VIP Kala Geramata" in the role of Loukia Partheniou, on the ANT1 channel. She made her film debut in 1987 in the short film Atreides. Her next film appearance was in 2000 in the film Agripnia.[7] In 2010, she was part of the cast of Vassilis Tselemegos' drama film Dangerous Cooking. In 2017, she starred in the period drama Polyxena: A Story from the City.
TV Credits
3ος Όροφος
Character: Υβόννη
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Η Τούρτα της Μαμάς
Character: Marilou
"Mom's Cake", the main axis is mom's family tables, where guests are of different ages, moods and beliefs, gather to come closer, to meet, to remember, to smile, but also to quarrel and to disagree....
VIΠ Καλά Γεράματα
Character: Loukia Partheniou
A strictly appropriate comedy, comes to a nursing home... pure madness!...
Τα ψάθινα καπέλλα
Character: Μητέρα
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Movie Credits
At the Airport
Character: Ρούλα
In a small greek island, Prokopis is the only employee of the local airport....
I Will Cross Tomorrow
Character: Panayota
The brief but intense encounter of a Greek police officer and a Syrian refugee changes the way the two see this world....
Dangerous Cooking
Character:
Two men, different characters, share the most fascinating woman in the world, while the smells and tastes work as the best aphrodisiac in their parallel relationships. A love triangle, with little doses of the art of the cousine....
Downhill
Character: She
On a sunny day in September, she marches down the hill of a Mediterranean island. He is driving down the road with his old car and picks her up. As they drive downhill, the missing pieces of the story unravel, and the news that so much upset her is revealed. One thing is for sure, whatever happened earlier, no one should find out. The story of a mother trying to come to terms with the admission of her son's sexuality in an island community that is taking the first step toward the recognition of ...
Polyxeni
Character: Mother
In 1955 a couple of prominent Greek Istanbulites adopt an orphan Greek girl, twelve-year-old Polyxeni, who is separated from her younger brother. She embarks on a new life and a future that looks bright, but she will have to defend what’s rightfully hers....
Apnea
Character: Elsa's Mother
Dimitris, a 23 yr. old swimming champion, meets Elsa, a yound environmental activist. Their relation, and her sudden dissaperance, make him re-evaluate his settled life....
Murphy’s Law
Character:
After an accident that puts her in a coma, Maria Aliki, a struggling actress in search of major roles, enters a reality where she must play out all the possible roles life could have given her. Through this journey, she must discover who she truly is in order to return to life....