Vera Zavitsianou

Who is Vera Zavitsianou?

Vera Zavitsianou was a famous actress of Greek theatre. She was born in 1927 in Paleo Faliro. She started as a singer. She sang with her sister, Mary Lo in Greek boites. She studied at the Dramatic School of Theatre of Art in Athens and in 1954 she appeared in her first role in the play of Thorton Wilder With Teeth.

In 1958 she started playing in the Theater of Art a series of roles in major plays, many of them played for the first time in Greece: Camera, Blood Wedding and Perlimplin and Belissa by Garcia Lorca Bear, Day and Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Greetings from Bertha, Rose Tattoo and Summer Haze by Tennessee Williams, Wild Duck, Twelfth Night of Shakespeare, Bus Stop, Living room, Court of Miracles of Kambanellis, The Good Person of Szechwan of Brecht.

She was an impresario with Alekos Alexandrakis and Angelos Antonopoulos, and starred for many years in the Greek Popular Theatre of Manos Katrakis.

On the TV was presented only once the title role of "Madame Koula" series based on the novel by M. Koumantareas.

She died on September 11, 2008.