Niki Triantafillidi
Biography
Niki Triantafyllidi (Athens, November 27, 1942 - Athens, May 13, 2013) was a Greek actress, director and writer. She was the daughter of composer Panos Triantafyllidis. She graduated from the Drama School of the National Theatre. She made her theatrical debut in 1963, in the play "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico García Lorca with the Aleka Katseli troupe. She acted in several Greek films. She collaborated with important directors such as Alexis Minotis, Minos Volanakis, Lefteris Charonitis and others. In 1969 she was for a short time artistic director of the theater organization "Christian Theater", where she staged Eugene O'Neill's play, "Endless Days". In 1970 she won the directing award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, for the short film "My Ordinary Dream", while in 1971 she was honored by the "Center for Study and Research of the Greek Theater" with the "Marika Kotopouli" award as the best actress of the period 1970-71. She taught at the State Theater of Northern Greece, at the Pelos Katselis school and at the Mary Traga school. He was a founding member of the Ensemble Theater and the Panhellenic Cultural Movement and in the 1990s he founded the "Triantafyllidis" Theater in Vathis Square.
Known For & Full Filmography24 Titles
Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Κατερίνα
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Anthoula
During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Vasiliki
A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Rena
Ten women hide out on an deserted island in the Ageian after an prison break where seven men, led by an ex-Nazi, arrive on the island to search for a buried treasure and force the women to dig for them, until one strong-willed woman, named Sarah, decides to plot a revolt.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Pashalia Velousi
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Λίζα
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
August 1944, and a captain in the Greek army in the Middle East, Jason, secretly disembarks on an island with the mission of gathering information on the state of the German defensive positions, in view of the imminent landing of the Allied Forces. To complete his mission, he makes contact with some rebels, but the Germans are aware of his presence and arrest twelve men to force him to surrender. Shortly before the deadline expires, a local man who had been declared a deserter shortly before the war began and had been in hiding, presents himself at his post and is executed, making his wife and son proud.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Mina
A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fantasize about the women in their lives.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Woman
A modern retelling of the Orpheus myth where Euridice, code number BA 2037, is trapped in a metaphorical hell-house, waiting for rescue from her lover, Orpheus.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In the Turkish-occupied Greece of the 18th century, Menousis when the Turks would kill his wife, decides to climb the mountains and along with the thieves to fight for the liberation of his country.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Anna
Mikes, the head of sanitation for a large city, is a ruthless blackmailer who pressures his wife Anna to divorce him so he can marry his mistress. Callous and insensitive as he is, he has made her life a living hell. Anna does not want to divorce him because she is pregnant with his child and fears social condemnation. One night, she is attacked by a man who tries to rape her, but she is saved by a passerby, Alexis.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (Eleni Zafiriou). It turns into a pirated taxi but has an accident. To repair the damage he suffered, he is forced to work for a wealthy man (Theodoros Moridis). He undertakes to make the driver of his spoiled daughter (Miranda Kounellaki). It will affect her and transform her into a responsible person, so she falls in love with him. At the same time, the young person gains the respect and appreciation of her father.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Two poor young people, Martha and Manos, have grown up together and are in love, but the financial problems of the girl's family will lead her to marry a rich man. Manos, prompted by their separation, will write a song that will pave the way for his success, but will also bring him closer to another woman, whom he will marry...
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The wealthy and spoiled son of a successful industrialist decides to play with an honest, love-smitten woman, unbeknownst to him that she is the secretary of his father.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Margarita Vardi
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Hrysa
A young teacher arrives in a village that has been almost completely deserted by emigration and tries to educate the children and bridge the differences between the residents, which stem from the machinations of a powerful landowner.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Maria
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Maroula Abara
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A mysterious woman arrives on the Greek island Patmos.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.