Known For
Acting
Born
May 07, 1933
Died
Jan 16, 2026
Place of Birth
Piraeus, Greece
Credits
39 titles
Melpo Zarokosta
Biography
Melpo Zarokosta (Piraeus, May 7, 1933 - Athens, January 16, 2026) was a Greek actress. She was born in Piraeus in 1933. She is the daughter of Elias Zarokosta, one of the first Greek actuaries, and Despina Spyropoulou. After the War, she emigrated for a short time to Alexandria, Egypt, and then to Sydney, Australia, where she studied theater at the Metropolitan Theater and at the Canandale School of Radio Studies, directing, screenwriting, and acting. She stayed there for 11 years and began her artistic career in television and theater. She performed in Sydney in Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and also Hecuba in Greek for the Greek community. In 1957, she married her first husband, pianist Andreas Diamantidis, and went with him to London, where they stayed for a year. Due to family obligations, she returned to Greece in 1958. Almost simultaneously with her return to Athens, she began her collaboration with the company of Lambros Konstantaras. There she met her future second husband, also an actor and director, Victor Pagoulatos, with whom she had a son, Alexander. She was involved in translating and adapting plays for theater, radio and television. She wrote her first play, The Women's Tutoring School, in which she co-starred with Dinos Iliopoulos, Nora Valsami and Nikos Apergi. Since then, several of her own plays have been performed in Athens and the province. She was the first female member of the Greek Playwrights' Society since 1960, a member of the Board of Directors. since 1990 and President of the Company from 1999 to 2001.
Known For
Filmography
Asteras Rachoulas
Mpermpilo
Strangers in the House
Agapi
Clinical Case
κα Στέλλα
Extended Play
Grandmother
Honorable Cuckolds
Γάμος με τα Όλα του
μαμά
Βελούδο από μετάξι
Κάκια
Παππούδες εν δράσει
Ελένη
Δανεικός πατέρας
Φρόσω, μητέρα
Ο χήρος, η χήρα και τα χειρότερα
Σιλβή, μητέρα Λουκίας
Eisai to laheio mou
The Captain and Dancer
Life Sentence
Elsa's mother
And It Flies... And It Lies
Writer
Ζωή και κότα
Remember September
Narrator (voice)
Αθήνα-Νέα Υόρκη: Το μεγάλο κόλπο
Turning Point
Efi
The Jackals
Eleni's Mother
Προσκλητήριο στη μάνα
Writer
The Possessed
Writer
Aliki the Dictator
Κα Φιρφιρίκου
Air hostess
Martha Valma-Dupon
A Funny Girl
Λαίδη
Η ανταρσία των 10
Writer
A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman
Kaiti
Love forever
Nurse
The Leventopaido
Nora Athanasiou
The Man Who Returned from the Plates
Lemonia Louna
The Countess of Fabrica
Bianca Katakouzinou
Some tired boys
Mrs. Maltezou
My wife went mad
Giouli
All Men Are the Same
Angela
A Matter of Earnestness
Nanta Mavrogialourou
The Orgies Villa
Eva
Divorce, Greek Style
Anna Madelou
Death Will Return
Aliki
The Papadopoulou Family
Marina Papadopoulou
Maiden's Cheek
Popi Alexiou