Georgia Vasileiadou

Known for ActingBorn 1897-01-01Died 1980-02-12Athens, Greece

Georgia Vasileiadou (Greek: Γεωργία Βασιλειάδου; 1897 – 12 February 1980) was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1930 to 1977. She was born in Athens in the Kypseli area in 1897 into a family of ten children. Her real name was Georgia Athanasiou, but she changed it to Vasiliadou when she decided to pursue singing and acting. She was forced to leave school early to work in a shop and help support her large family, after the sudden death of her father, who was a cavalry officer, after falling from a horse. She made her first artistic appearance in 1923 as a member of the Olympia Theater chorus, in Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani, rather coincidentally when she began her studies at the Gennadius School in 1923 and then appeared in various operas. She worked in major theater groups of the time with Kyveli, Marika Kotopouli, Dimitris Myrat, performing various roles. In the mid-1930s, she decided to stop, after a marriage that was unfortunate. She then met Sofia Vembo, who promised to help her. The man who discovered her and gave her the opportunity to have a great career was Alekos Sakellarios, so at the age of forty-two, Georgia Vassiliadou made a new dynamic start and with her innate talent immediately conquered the audience. Alekos Sakellarios offered her a role in 1939 in The Married Girls, which became the occasion for the beginning of a second, but better known career - this time as a world-loving comedian, the "most beautiful ugly" of Greek cinema, as she was described. Her company Finos Film produced her great successes such as: The Beauty of Athens, The Aunt from Chicago, Clearchos, Marina and the Shorty and many others. She took part in the television series Christ is Crucified Again. In the collections When Actors Sing 1 & 2, Vasiliadou can be heard in the songs "O kyr-Mentios" by Takis Morakis from the film The Treasure of the Retired and "Apokriatiko Gaitanaki". She lived in Maroussi and had a daughter, Fotini Apostolidou, from her first marriage, while in 1945 she married her second husband, Kostas Gambaros, with whom she lived together until her death. In recent times, she suffered from bronchial asthma. Her health deteriorated and she was hospitalized at Evangelismos. She died on 12 February 1980. She was buried two days later, in the presence of a small crowd, at the 1st Cemetery of Athens. (Source: Wikipedia)Read more

Movies & web series

The Baroness and Prokopis

Η Σμυρνιά

Better the Devil You Know

The Sculptor's Dream

For Her Love

Η περιπτερού

Η Λυγερή

Thymios in the Land of Striptease

Έξυπνοι και Κορόιδα

O Hristos xanastavronetai

So Many Dreams on the Streets

Mrs. Midwife

The 4 Stairs

The Coffee Reader

The Treasure of the Beatitude

The Germans Strike Again

The Grouch

Greedy for Everything

The Matchmaker

Grousouzis

The Unwilling Nanny

Πιάσαμε την καλή

The Happy Beginning

Klearhos, Marina and the short one

Madame Mayor

Horse and Carriage

Bouboulina

The Auntie from Chicago

The Beauty of Athens

My Nephew Manolis

The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia

One Night in Heaven

Michalios of the 14th Regiment

The Miserable

The lover of the shepherdess

Goal in Love

They ere all... Fools!

A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

Tallywoman: Operation Groom

I Loved and I Suffered

We without money

The Greek woman and love

Meletis of the Flying Squad

The Uncle from Canada

The Wedding Dance

The Watermelon

Those Not Allowed to Love

Astero