Olia Lazaridou

Biography

Olia Lazaridou (Athens, 13 March 1954) is a Greek actress and director.

Her father was a radio producer and advertiser. She studied acting at the Drama School of the Art Theatre where she performed, as an actress, in tragedies and in the play Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Giorgos Lazanis. In 1986 she went to France where she attended classes at the school of Antoine Vitez.

Lazaridou became known to the general public through her frequent film appearances in the 1980s. Her first film appearance was in a small role in Nikos Koundouros' film 1922 in 1978. She has starred in a total of 17 films and has twice won the Best Actress award at the Thessaloniki Greek Film Festival for the films The Stigma in 1982 and Terirem in 1987 while in the same year she also won the Best Supporting Actress award for the film Archangel of Passion. In 2005 she was awarded for her entire body of work. The 46th Thessaloniki Film Festival featured special screenings in her honor of the films The Rags Still Sing by Nikos Nikolaidis, Invincible Lovers by Stavros Tsiolis, The Stigma by Pavlos Tassios, and The Nostalgist by Eleni Alexandraki. Lazaridou herself maintains an ambivalent attitude towards her film appearances.

Known For

Άλκηστη
Άλκηστη
Parangelia!
Parangelia!
Olga Robards
Olga Robards
Stigma
Stigma
Invincible Lovers
Invincible Lovers
Potlatch
Potlatch
Terirem
Terirem
Paradise
Paradise

Filmography

2022 Rare Land
as
2022 Last Journey
as
2011 Paradise
as
2011 Directing Hell
as
2005 The Woman Who Missed Home
as Άννα
2002 I'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers
as
1997 Prodosia
as Όλγα Μαρκάκη
1996 Before the End of the World
as
1995 Η Χαμένη άνοιξη
as Φλώρα
1991 Stubborn Elsa
as Elsa
1989 Olga Robards
as
1988 Invincible Lovers
as
1987 Potlatch
as Katerina
1987 Terirem
as Maria Kavvadia
1986 Άλκηστη
as
1986 Threatre
as
1985 Varieté
as Anna
1982 Stigma
as Eleni
1980 Parangelia!
as Roula
1979 The Wretches Are Still Singing
as Vera