Athena Michaelidou
Acting
Biography
Athena Michaelidou (Greek: Αθηνά Μιχαηλίδου, Ermoupoli, Syros 1918 – 9 December 2001) was a Greek actress who played supporting roles in many films.
Place of Birth: Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece
Known For
A Matter of Dignity
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.
Nightmare
A new and rich heir, Anna Margot, is receiving threatening phone calls from an old friend, Anna not knowing what to do requests the help of her friend Tonis Karzis, the anxiety will culminate as a series of unexplained murders follows .
Serenity
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
The man who returned from pain
Nikos Liosis returns to his homeland, with the wounds of the Korean War still fresh in his mind and body. His wife Vera and all his relatives think him dead. He does not want to be present in his home in the state where he is. One day Vera meets him at random. He denies the identity of Nikos Liossis and is recommended as Alexis Sarris. She asks him to play the role of her real husband who never ceases to love, to avoid the marriage forced by her parents.
The Devastated
The honest laborer falls into disfavour and is undermined by his factory's son because they both love the daughter of the factory owner without suspecting the secret that unites them.
Betrayed love
Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos.
Sometimes even the strong cry
A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose home his mother worked older as a shipwreck. But he resigns when he discovers that the ship is dangerous.
The last goodbye
With you forever
A worker, engaged to the owner of the factory where he works, at his mother's request, begins a relationship with a poor girl, who is ill and will soon die. His fiancée discovers his double life and reveals it to the sick girl, who ends up in the hospital.
Slaves of fate
Filmography
as Alexis' mother
as Mary
as Magda
as Mrs. Kosmidi
as Mrs. Vergi
as Mina
as Mrs. Margo
as Aunt Sophia
as Roxanni Pella