Vera Krouska

Varvara Vera Krouska Athens 1947 is a Greek actress She began her career as a dancer in Fotis Metaxopoulos ballet and began appearing in films in small supporting roles in the early 1960s Some of her most important roles are in the films I Blame My Body 1969 Saint Nektarios 1969 The Last of the Comitatzes 1970 The Last of Roupel 1971 and Give Me Your Hands 1971 Vera Krouska originally from Sparta was born in Athens and raised in Agios Loukas in Patisia At the age of 15 she received permission from the then Exceptional Talents committee to study at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory of Music while at the same time she began taking classical and modern dance lessons with teachers Sonia Morianova Miriam Swazi and Kay Holden She began her professional career initially as a dancer while also making her film debut with a small role in the film Taxi Driver 1962 She got her first leading role in 1967 with the film Love in Lesbos by producer James Parris with whom Kruska signed a fouryear collaboration contract Her first appearance in the theater was in 1968 with the play Forty Carats alongside Elli Lampeti She also took part as the leading actress in the plays The Cactus Flower with the Elli Lampetis troupe and Tavarits Picnic Oscar with the Kostas Mousouris troupe This was followed by her collaboration with the National Theatre and the plays The Imaginary Patient 1991 The Criminals 1992 The Merchant of Venice 1995 Weighing in Anchors 1997 and Hamlet 2003