Lydia Fotopoulou

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 19951996 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 20022003 she was the narrator in the NET documentary Epoches kai Ssgabries In the 20072008 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 Order5 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 family6 In 2023 she played Yvonne in the ERT1 series Tritos Orofos In the 202425 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 Agripnia7 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