Gelly Mavropoulou

Known for ActingBorn 1932-10-21Died 2021-07-19Thessaloniki, Greece

Gelly (Angeliki) Mavropoulou (Thessaloniki, 21 October 1932 – Athens, 19 July 2021) was a Greek actress. She was born in Thessaloniki in 1932. Her parents were also actors Angelos Mavropoulos (1901–1979) and Marika Krevata (1910–1994). She studied at the French Academy of Athens and at the Drama School of the "Art Theater" of Karolos Koun. Geli Mavropoulou first appeared in the cinema in 1953 with the film Papa is Being Trained by Giorgos Lazaridis and was followed by leading roles in more than 40 more films covering all genres of Greek cinema from the period 1950-1980, classic comedies (The Beauty of Athens, by Nikos Tsiforos, 1954; The Aunt from Chicago by Alekos Sakellarios, 1957; Fanouris and His Family by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, 1957; Fortunately I Went Crazy by Kostas Andritsos, 1961; Company of Miracles by Stefanos Stratigos, 1962; The Gentleman's Wife by Yiannis Dalianidis, 1962; The Messer by Grigoris Grigoriou, 1967), melodramas (Red Roses by Kostas Andritsos, 1955; The Little Sprout by Jason Novak, 1955; The Wandering of an Innocent by Kostas Andritsos, 1959; The Road with Red Lights by Kostas Karagiannis, 1963; Every Port and Woe by Homer Efstratiadis, 1964), resistance adventures (The Brave Die Twice by Takis Vougiouklakis, 1973), historical dramas (Ali Pasha and Lady Frosini by Stefanos Stratigos, 1959), frock films (Myrtia by Kostas Karagiannis, 1961), film noir (Crime in Kolonaki by Tzanis Aliferis, 1960; The Kidnapping of Kostas Karagiannis, 1964; Emergency Exit by Nikos Foskolos, 1980), spy thrillers (The Avenue of Betrayal by Christos Kyriakopoulos, 1969), and even films of the new Greek cinema (The Honeymoon by Giorgos Panousopoulos, 1979). Her last film appearance was in the film 17 Bullets for an Angel (1981) by Nikos Foskolos-Takis Vougiouklakis. Her greatest cinematic successes are considered to be the role of Katina, the unmarried girl who must be rehabilitated at all costs in the film Fanouris and His Family (1957) by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, alongside Mimis Fotopoulos, the role of Eva, the cunning and ambitious middle-class woman who directs her husband's career, in the film The Gentleman's Wife (1962) by Yiannis Dalianidis, alongside Dinos Iliopoulos, and the role of Dimitra, the widow of Lieutenant Avgeris, who hires a double to play her husband, in Takis Vougiouklakis' film The Brave Die Twice (1973), alongside Angelos Antonopoulos. It is worth noting that she is the protagonist who launched rock and roll in Greek cinema, along with Theodoros Dimitriev, in the film The Aunt from Chicago (1957). She died on July 19, 2021, at the age of 88. Her body was cremated, and her ashes were interred in the mausoleum of Greek artists at the First Cemetery of Athens. (Source: Wikipedia)Read more

Movies & web series

Treason Avenue

The road with red lights

Η πικραγαπημένη

Golgotha of an Innocent

Μυρτιά

Για την αγάπη μιας ορφανής

Φτώχεια Έρως και Κομπίνα

The Brave Die Twice

Of Fortune The Written

The Father Is Training

Μικρογραφίες

Τα αρραβωνιάσματα

You have to live my love

Pure And Dishonored

Crime in Omonia

Δυο αγάπες δυο κόσμοι

Fanouris and His Kin

17 Bullets for an Angel

My Life Belongs To You

Κατατρεγμένοι της μοίρας

Το παραστράτημα μιας αθώας

Red roses

Twenty Women and I

The Auntie from Chicago

Abduction

To Fintanaki

The Beauty of Athens

Crime in Kolonaki

Company of Miracles

Rolled in the mud

The Miss Of The Mister

Oi 900 tis Marinas

Emergency exit

Every Port And Woe

The Girl Has Got an Uncle

Tsakitzis: The Patron Saint of the Poor

Honeymoon

Eftyhos... trellathika!

Ali Pasas and Lady Frosyni

From Jerusalem with love

Anakatosouras

1821 at the Cinema