Katerina Gioulakis: From « Tsiribim Tsiribom » to « Mrs. Katerina » – her unforgettable roles
The news that Katerina Gioulakis « passed away » was scattered on Wednesday. The well -known and beloved actress, who in recent years had been removed from the spotlight, left her last breath at the age of 87.
Born on March 27, 1938, Katerina Yuvarlakis – as her regular name was – studied at the Drama School of the National Theater and in the late 1950s made her theatrical debut with Dinos Iliopoulos’ troupe in the work of « Lady ».
With Dinos Iliopoulos in the play « Cabaret ».
This was the beginning of a great career, which lasted for about half a century, as her latest professional appearance was in the 2010 film « The Administrator ». During these five decades, Katerina Gioulakis will not hesitate to experiment and serve the actor’s profession from all the posts – both from theater and cinema as on television and videotapes.
At the same time, when the cameras went out, the beloved actress chose to keep a low profile. She made a few public appearances, kept her family life out of the limelight and did not often give dense interviews.
In the successful series « The Penthouse ».
However, when she decided to do so, she said things as she had in mind and believed them, without thinking about what others would say. As 2015, when asked about ‘Penthouse»He had no problem saying ‘a sijaki was. Only Oscars they didn’t give us, ”always stressing that television was the best moment of her career.
However, it was not only the « penthouse » that made Katerina Gioulakis known and dear. Here are some of her roles that we will remember forever.
The heirs
The film of Finos Film of 1964, directed by Yiannis Dalianidis and Nikos Tsiforou’s script, puts us in the lives of two unidentified nephews who inherit 24% of their uncle’s fashion house. Katerina Gioulakis portrays the rigorous boss of the company who falls « victim » by the flirtation of Kostas Voutsas and Kostas Hatzichristou, who consider it to be the fourth hidden heir of the house.
The spaghetti
In the 1967 film, he plays his wife Tsigounis Lambros Constantara, who one night is dragged by his partner and spends all his money on a two -woman fun night. However, one of them is Katerina Gioulakis’ cousin who had just come from the US.
An Italian from the hive
The rich and strict sister of Alekos Alexandrakis, who wants only a foreign and not a Greek woman for her bride. This is how Maro Kontou becomes Italian and Katerina Gioulakis’ house « American bar ». The scene of « Tsiribim Tsiribom » makes you cry from laughter to the present day.
The trashy
As the wife of strange Yiannis Gionakis, who all blame and all bother him, he tries to protect her niece, who is flirting with her uncle’s partner and with a client. Of course things don’t go very well, for anyone.
The penthouse
The most famous role of Katerina Gioulakis, as « Mrs. Katerina » in the penthouse of an apartment building in downtown Athens, where she lives with her mother and her niece. And there, in a comical way, all the problems of the average Greek family of the 1990s unfold.
