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Lida Protopsalti

Lida Protopsalti

Acting
1940-01-24
Pireaus, Greece

Biography

Leda Protopsalti (Piraeus, 24 January 1940) is a Greek actress. She was born in Piraeus in 1940 as Lydia Protopsalti and studied acting at the Drama School of the Art Theatre. Her sister is the soprano Elsa Castella. At the age of six, she went to her first audition, while at twelve, she participated in her first theatrical performance. Since then, she has made many appearances in the theatre. She was one of the founders of the troupe Vimata in 1969 and since 1974 she has been a permanent collaborator of the Stoa Theatre. She made her first film appearance at the age of ten in the film My Child Must Live. She has participated in films such as: The Devil's Socks, El Greco and The Rose of Smyrna. On television, she played in various series on EIRT, YENED and ET1. In 1995, she starred in the series The Third Crown, based on the book of the same name, playing Hecuba. She has received many awards, including the Marika Kotopouli Award in 1993, the award from the International Theatre Institute in 1997 and the First Performance Award for Euripides' Hecuba from Athinorama magazine in 2000. Also, at the 2013 Hellenic Academy Awards she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award for the film Joy. On private television, he has appeared in the series: A Greek, Reformatory, Marriage Bureau, Bound, Difficult Years, Nightmare, Themis is in... a Mood, Once Upon a Time: The Grocer's Beans, Little-Big, The Man Without a Face, Hippocrates Street, The Third Step, Hare Tasso Karatasos, Zoe.

Known For & Full Filmography10 Titles

#1The Antisocial

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Nitsa

7.0 / 10
DramaComedy

A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life. He pretends to be a tough guy, a know-it-all, and behaves like an “antisocial”. With the help of a friend of his from the army, Aristeidis, he tries to set up his own business. At the same time, he falls in love with a seamstress, Toula, who is the sister of Aristeidis’ wife. Then comes the wedding, the everyday obligations, and Mimis is forced, with great resentment, to work as a waiter to make ends meet. When he get fired, however, his relationship with Nitsa is put to the test.

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#2Joy

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m as Hara's Mother

8.8 / 10
Drama

Hara leaves the maternity hospital with a baby in her arms. She spends her days caring for her newborn baby. Daily images of affection, familiarity, devotion and acquaintance with the baby in the rhythm of a lullaby. However, the repeated emergency news about the abduction of a baby from the maternity hospital comes to violently bring us back to reality.

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#3El Greco

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
Drama

The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".

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#4Έναν Ελληνικό

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as καθαρίστρια

8.8 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#5On High Treason

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Drama

In a small village, Michalis, who suffers from amnesia, does not remember that he and three of his fellow villagers were surrounded by the enemy. Specifically, on their way back to their village after the collapse of the Albanian front and the German invasion, somewhere in the Larissa area, the men were supposed to meet up with resistance fighters. However, Michalis does not remember the trap they fell into, where his two companions were killed and he himself was wounded, while the fourth was absent. Yannis had disappeared but suddenly returns to his home, and his presence upsets Michalis. Yannis' father quickly understands why: his son, in order to save his own skin, had betrayed his friends to the Germans. An honest man and a fiery patriot, he tries his son on charges of high treason, finds him guilty, and executes him.

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#6My Child Must Live

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Drama

Having become a beggar on the streets, Alexis reminisces about his love affair with a wealthy girl, Eva, who gave him the accordion he always wanted. When she became pregnant, Alexis suggested that she not have an abortion, in exchange for disappearing from her life. She married a failed man of aristocratic descent, who soon abandoned her for a cabaret dancer, embezzling a large part of her fortune. Alexis kidnaps his child and ends up in prison. Many years later, he is released from prison and watches his daughter's progress from afar. She learns the truth about her father from a former employee of her mother's business and rushes to find him.

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#7Εγκατάλειψη

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
War

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#8Sharp as a Needle

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.7 / 10
RomanceComedy

Tonis and Rena are loved, but their uncles have objections, as they are deadly competitors in the field of swimwear marketing. Rena's uncle promotes a modern swimsuit, while Toni's uncle is a fan of the classic line. The two young men decide to steal ..

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#9Roza of Smyrna

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Roza

7.4 / 10
Drama

An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood and an old photograph that send him on a journey to bridge the past with the present.

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#10John the Violent

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10

The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.

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