Melpo Zarokosta
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.
Acting
Movie
Maiden's Cheek
as Popi Alexiou
1959
Movie
Extended Play
as Grandmother
2006
Movie
A Matter of Earnestness
as Nanta Mavrogialourou
1965
Movie
Some tired boys
as Mrs. Maltezou
1967
Movie
The Orgies Villa
as Eva
1964
Movie
The Jackals
as Eleni's Mother
1981
Movie
The Leventopaido
as Nora Athanasiou
1969
Movie
A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman
as Kaiti
1970
Movie
My wife went mad
as Giouli
1966
Movie
Turning Point
as Efi
1982
Movie
Life Sentence
as Elsa's mother
1988
TV
Clinical Case
as κα Στέλλα
2011
Movie
The Man Who Returned from the Plates
as Lemonia Louna
1969
Movie
The Papadopoulou Family
as Marina Papadopoulou
1960
Movie
A Funny Girl
as Λαίδη
1970
TV
Honorable Cuckolds
2006
Movie
Aliki the Dictator
as Κα Φιρφιρίκου
1972
TV
Asteras Rachoulas
as Mpermpilo
2016
Movie
Divorce, Greek Style
as Anna Madelou
1964
Movie
All Men Are the Same
as Angela
1966
Movie
The Countess of Fabrica
as Bianca Katakouzinou
1969
TV
Βελούδο από μετάξι
as Κάκια
2004
Movie
Death Will Return
as Aliki
1961
Movie
Love forever
as Nurse
1970
