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Despoina "Despo" Diamantidou was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than seventy films from 1949 to 2003.

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Angela Gerekou is a Greek politician, actress and architect born in Corfu, in the Ionian Sea, on April 15, 1959.

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Olga Karlatos is a retired Greek actress and Bermudian lawyer, known primarily for performing in Italian horror cinema.

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Ellie Loukou, known professionally as Ellie Lambeti, was a Greek actress.

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Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, and politician. She came from a famous political family. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960). Mercouri was also nominated for three Golden Globes and two BAFTA Awards in her acting career.

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Sofia Milos is a Swiss-born Italian/Greek actress. She is best known for her role as Yelina Salas on CSI: Miami. She has also had a role on The Sopranos as Camorra Boss Annalisa Zucca, as well as roles in TV series such as Curb your Enthusiasm, Friends and ER.

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Katerina Moutsatsou or Moutsatsos, is a Los Angeles-based Greek actress, producer, writer, and activist. She is the author and producer of experimental films, videos, and animation series, which focus mainly on subjects related to her country of origin, Greece. She is vocal on the area of politics, and cultural identity. Her political animation series Sara and Mara Greek: Η Σάρα και η Μάρα was published by the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia.

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Maria Nafpliotou is an award-winning Greek actress. In addition to lead roles in Greek television and movies, she has delivered many leading roles on the stage, and is also a dancer.

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Tatiana Papamoschou is a Greek actress who has starred in numerous Greek theatrical, film and television productions. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1977 Oscar-nominated film Iphigenia, for which she earned the Best Leading Actress Award at the 1977 Thessaloniki Film Festival.

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Irene Papas is a Greek actress and singer who has starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such films as The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek. She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women and Iphigenia. She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962).

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Angeliki Papoulia is a Greek actress and theatre director. In film, she is most notable for her roles in Dogtooth, Alps and The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos, and A Blast and The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea by Syllas Tzoumerkas. For her part in Dogtooth she was awarded with Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress.

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Alexi Pappas or Alexia Pappa is a Greek-American long distance athlete, filmmaker, actor, and writer. As a long distance runner, Alexi has been most successful in the 10km, but has also been a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) All-American at indoor 3,000 metres, 5,000 metres, and the steeplechase as well as the Ivy League champion in the steeplechase. In the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's 10km, Pappas represented Greece and set a national Greek record. As a filmmaker, Alexi directed, co-wrote and starred in Tracktown. As a writer, Alexi wrote "Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas".

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Katina Paxinou was a Greek film and stage actress.

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Anna Rezan is an actress, model, musician, and filmmaker. Rezan began her career in her early teens by appearing in Greek films and television series, most notably co-starring in the 2008 TV drama Farewell Anatolia and starring in the 2010 comedy film ShowBitch that premiered at Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

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Angelique Rockas is an actress, producer and activist. Rockas founded Internationalist Theatre in the UK with patron Athol Fugard. The theater featured multi-racial casts in classical plays, breaking racial barriers that were once accepted norms for theatrical performances.

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Yvonne Sanson was a Greek-Italian film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1946 and 1972, mainly working in Italy.

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Christina Tsafou is a Greek actress known for her TV and film roles.

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Georgia Vasileiadou was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1930 to 1977.

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Sofia Vembo was a leading Greek singer and actress active from the interwar period to the early postwar years and the 1950s. She became best known for her performance of patriotic songs during the Greco-Italian War, when she was dubbed the "Songstress of Victory".

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Aliki Stamatina Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress and theatrical producer, best known for her films and theatrical plays. She was one of the most popular actresses in Greece, and was given the title of the National Star of Greece. Theatrically, she mostly starred in renditions of widely known Broadway musicals as well as multiple Greek tragedy plays. Vougiouklaki died in 1996 at the age of 62, just three months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.