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Katerina Lehou
Katerina Lehou (Greek: Κατερίνα Λέχου) is a Greek actress, who has been in many theatrical plays, films, and Greek television series. Biography Lehou was born on September 5, 1967, in Athens, Greece. During her childhood, she participated in the arts, like playing the piano and reading literature. She studied and graduated from the Theater of Arts Karolos Koun. In 1990, Lehou started acting professionally in a film named ''The scars of the night'' (Τα σημάδια της νύχτας). In 2010, she began starring on a television series called ''The island'', based on the novel by Victoria Hislop. Viewers were really surprised by Lehou's dramatic performance, since they were used to her starring in comedy serials that she had previously been in. Lehou participated in the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Filmography Film * ''Ta Simadia tis Nyhtas'' (1990) * ''Oxygene'' (2003) * ''Aystiros Katallilo'' (2008) * ''Akalypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the list of languages by first written accounts, longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolos Koun
Karolos Koun (; September 13, 1908 – February 14, 1987) was a prominent Greek theater director, widely known for his lively staging of ancient Greek plays. Biography Koun was born in Bursa, Ottoman Empire to a Greek mother and a Polish Jewish father. He was educated in Ottoman Turkey until the end of high school. He graduated from Robert College in Istanbul and then went to Sorbonne for his university education. As his family's economic situation worsened, he couldn't continue his education. He had been praised all over Europe for his bawdy, colorful stagings of the 5th century BC political comedies of Aristophanes. In 1942, he founded the experimental ''Art Theater'' and its drama school. Koun gave premieres in Athens of works by avant-garde European playwrights such as Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello. In 1962, Koun's production of '' The Birds'' by Aristophanes won first prize at an international festival at Paris. He also directed many plays by Aristophanes like The Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop (''née'' Hamson; born 1959) is an English author. Early life Born in Bromley, Kent, she was raised in Tonbridge and attended Tonbridge Grammar School. She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author. Career Her novel ''The Island (Hislop novel), The Island'' (2005) was a number-one bestseller in Britain, its success in part the result of having been selected by the ''Richard & Judy Book Club'' for their 2006 Summer Reads. ''To Nisi'' (The Island) was filmed as a TV series by the Greek TV channel Mega Channel, MEGA. In 2009, she donated the short story "Aflame in Athens" to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of British stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the "Fire" collection. Hislop has a particular affection for Greece. She visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on the island of Crete. Personal life Victoria marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Flame
The Olympic flame is a Olympic symbols, symbol used in the Olympic movement. It is also a symbol of continuity between ancient and modern games. The Olympic flame is lit at Olympia, Greece, several months before the Olympic Games. This ceremony starts the List of Olympic torch relays, Olympic torch relay, which formally ends with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the Olympic opening ceremonies, opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Through 2022, the flame would continue to burn in the cauldron for the duration of the Games, until it was extinguished during the Olympic closing ceremonies, Olympic closing ceremony. In 2024_Summer_Olympics, 2024, electric lighting and mist were used to create a simulated flame for the Olympic cauldron, with the actual flame kept in a lantern exhibited at an adjacent location. That lantern was then taken by French swimmer Léon Marchand from Tuileries_Garden, Jardins des Tuileries (where the Olympic cauldron, that was extinguished at that mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics (), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (; ) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a day before the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, opening ceremony. Pyeongchang was selected as the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, Winter Games at the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa on 6 July 2011. This marked the second time that South Korea had hosted the Olympic Games (having previously hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul), as well as the first time it hosted the Winter Olympics. The 2018 Games marked the third time that an Asian country had hosted the Winter Olympics, after Sapporo 1972 Winter Olympics, 1972 and Nagano (city), Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics, 1998, both in Japan. It was also the first Winter Olympics held in mainlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eisai To Tairi Mou
''Eisai To Tairi Mou'' (Greek: ''Είσαι Το Ταίρι Μου''; English: ''You're My Mate'') is a Greek romance comedy television series aired in the 2001–2002 season by Mega Channel. It was written by Lefteris Papapetrou and directed by Antonis Aggelopoulos. The title song of the series was composed by Stefanos Korkolis, while Paschalis wrote the lyrics and performed it. The series was scheduled to be completed in 25 episodes, but the high viewing figures increased its duration. The series won three awards in "Prosopa" Awards, in categories "Best Comedy Series", "Best Comedy Screenplay" for Lefteris Papapetrou and "Best Supporting Actor" for Aris Servetalis. It also won the audience award for "Best Comedy Series". Series overview Plot Stella and Vicky are two women of Greek diaspora who meet in Melbourne. Stella is a short and overweight woman to whom men do not pay attention, while Vicky is tall, thin and beautiful, attracting men. Stella was born and raised in Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eftyhismenoi Mazi
''Eftyhismenoi mazi'' or ''Eutichismenoi Mazi'' ( English: ''Happy Together'') is a Greek comedy TV series that was aired in Mega Channel during the seasons 2007–08 and 2008–09. The screenplay was adapted by the Spanish series ''Los Serrano''. Starred by Giannis Mpezos, Katerina Lechou, Dimitris Mavropoulos, Ioanna Pilichou and Petros Bousoulopoulos. It was awarded as the best comedy series in "Prosopa" Greek Television Awards for the season 2008–09. It was one of the most successful series and according to television ratings, it was being watched by over 2.000.000 spectators every week. Plot Dionisis and Eleni get married, the widower with three sons and the latter with two daughters from their previous marriages. The cohabitation starts to become difficult because the teenage children fell in love with each other. But, the love between them is impossible because they are formally relatives, a fact which creates hectic situations in the family. Among the main roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Nisi
''To Nisi'' (Greek alphabet, Greek: ''Το Νησί'' 'The Island') is a Greek television series based on the best-selling English novel ''The Island (2005 novel), The Island'' by Victoria Hislop airing on Mega Channel. The series premiered on 11 October 2010 to record ratings and critical acclaim. It is the most expensive Greek television production ever with a budget of €4 million. Production Conception The series is one of the most expensive television shows in Greek television history with a budget of €4 million. ''The Island'' author Victoria Hislop had previously received offers from Cinema of the United States, Hollywood as high as £300,000 for the movie rights to the novel, although she opted instead to grant the rights to Mega Channel for a fraction of the price in return for some artistic control. Initial thoughts by Mega Channel were to make a film out of the novel, but they finally decided upon a 26 episode television series instead. Mirella Papaeconomou primaril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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