Xenia Kalogeropoulou

Xenia Kalogeropoulou Greek Ξένια Καλογεροπούλου born September 12 1936 is a Greek actress who appeared in both Greek and Englishspeaking films in her career With her career spanning six decades she has appeared in over forty films and television shows Kalogeropoulou was born in Athens Greece and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art She made her acting debut in the 1956 play La Troupe Francaise She broke into the movies with a minor part in Mrs Midwife She would go on to appear in Marriage Adventures 1959 West Side and East Side 1959 Soldiers in Uniform 1960 and Lisa Tosca of Athens 1961 Her first starring role was in 1961s 2000 Sailors and a Girl In 1960 she starred alongside Jayne Mansfield and newcomer Trax Colton in It Happened in Athens a film that was not released until 1962 As the 1960s progressed Xenia received steady acting work She made her television debut in a 1976 episode of Athanates istories agapis She retired from film acting after making an appearance on Our Old Friends in 1985 but returned in 2013 with a role in the film Before Midnight which was her fortieth film In 1964 she won the best actress award in Thessaloniki Film Festival for the film Gamos Ala Ellinika She followed a career in writing plays for childrens theater which were presented at the Porta Theater such as Ulysses Eliza Beauty and the Beast Noahs Family The Deer King as well as Slave which won the Karolos Koun Drama Award in November 2001 In 2001 she was also honored with the childrens literature award of the Costas and Eleni Ouranis Foundation In 2022 she was declared an honorary doctor of the University of Thessaly The Childrens Stage is a theater for children which was founded on October 25 1972 Until the winter season of 19831984 it was housed in the Athina theater which is located at the intersection of Patision and Derigny streets in the Pedio tou Areos area On September 10 1984 Kalogeropoulou bought the space of the Odeon cinema at 59 Mesogeion Avenue in the Ampelokipi area and founded her own theater there which was called Theatro Porta and from the winter season of 19841985 she performed all the plays she staged there Since then the Childrens Stage which she had founded was called Mikri Porta