Anna Fonsou

Acting

Anna Fonsou

Born 1939-07-06 · Kesariani, Greece

Anna Fonsou (Greek: Άννα Φόνσου; born July 6, 1939) is a Greek actress and social activist. Anna Fonsou was born in 1939 in Kaisariani in Greece and grew up in Tinos. She studied at the drama school of Dimitris Rondiris. She studied dance with Rallou Manou and singing with Popi Petrioli. Fonsou made her first theater appearance in 1956 with the troupe of Katerina Andreadi and her first film appearance in 1957 in the movie Το παιδί του δρόμου (The Child of the Street). In 1965, she founded Proskinio together with Alexis Solomos and Aimilios Hourmouzis. In cinema, she played in dozens of films, almost exclusively leading roles, in both dramas and comedies alongside famous comedians such as Thanasis Veggos with whom she co-starred in several films. In the early 1970s, she also did a series of erotic films, mainly directed by Omiros Efstratiadis, which are now considered cult. On television she participated in various series (The Two Orphans, The Ragpickers, etc.) and in theatrical performances on the show The Theater of Monday. She starred at the Lyric Stage in the operetta The Apaches of Athens, and since 2001, she has been part of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. In the 1996 parliamentary elections and the 2000 elections, she was a candidate with the KKE, and in the 2009 and 2012 elections she was a candidate with the PASOK in Athens A. In 1997 she founded charitable foundation "The Actor's House" (Greek: Το σπίτι του Ηθοποιού) to provide housing for impoverished actors, of which she is a president. She produces theatrical performances, the proceeds of which are also donated to "The Actor's House". From 1998 to 2000, she served as president of the Greek Actors Union. In 2016 she was awarded the Nikolaos Karolos prize by the Academy of Athens for her social work related to "The Actor's House". She was married to theater entrepreneur and civil engineer Kostas Paltoglou, architect Nikos Sofianos, and in 1985 to singer-songwriter and composer Takis Bougas until they divorced in 1993.

Acting credits

King of Liars poster
3.3

Achilleas, who works together with his friend Paminos at Prokopis’ gas station, tries, via correspondence, to find a rich woman from abroad to marry and, in this way, hit the jackpot.

King of Liars

1971

Provocation poster
4.6

Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime.

Provocation

1971

Waiting Room poster
10.0

Five people wake up in an abandoned warehouse. None of them has any recollection of memory of who they are and how they got there.All of them have to remember and to find a way to get out of this place before it is too late.

Waiting Room

2018

Love on a Horse poster
4.4

A son and his stepmother, without noticing their father/husband peeping at them, make love on a horse. The father, while being a painter, gets inspired and begins a new painting that creates tension between them.

Love on a Horse

1973

The Countess of Fabrica poster
4.8

A beautiful young woman is arrested by a wonderful policeman, due to her effort to steal letters from a gigolo's house.

The Countess of Fabrica

1969

Lysistrata poster
6.1

Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.

Lysistrata

1972

Αύριο θα ξέρουμε poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Αύριο θα ξέρουμε

1997

10 Days in Paris poster
5.5

Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the stranglehold of their wives.

10 Days in Paris

1962

Who Thanasis! poster
6.7

A kindhearted owner of a shop falls in love with the girl he hires and, eventually, he finds out who tricks him and who really loves him.

Who Thanasis!

1969

The Tomboy poster
5.5

Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings of first love start to take over. Will she renounce her former self for love's sake?

The Tomboy

1959

Holidays in Vietnam poster
6.3

Returning from a 3 year captivity in Vietnam, a kind chemist finds his wife married to his boss who has become rich due to his invention.

Holidays in Vietnam

1971

Η Επιστροφή της Μήδειας poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η Επιστροφή της Μήδειας

1968

The Incredible poster
7.5

Thomas, the owner of an electrical appliances store, is having business problems due to his short-fuse temper and bad luck.

The Incredible

1970

The Last Temptation poster
8.0

A highly respected surgeon and University Professor becomes infatuated with a pretty young acrobat he meets accidentally in the park one evening. He quits his practice, dumping all his patients and dedicates his life to offering her a new home, money and his passionate love, also trying to sponsor her stage career in any possible way. She takes all he gives but it’s never enough for her and she doesn’t really have to give back much because the old man is head over heels in love with her.

The Last Temptation

1964

The Clever Bird poster
6.2

A poor but hardworking and proud young woman falls in love with her boss and manages to save him from many problems troubling his business.

The Clever Bird

1961

All Men Are the Same poster
4.8

Polyxeni becomes enraged when she finds her husband flirting with their maid. After dismissing the girl, she leaves her husband and goes to live at her parents' house. There, however, by chance, her former maid comes to work as a domestic helper. Polyxeni's father, brother, son-in-law, a naval officer, and two of his sailors fall in love with the maid, leading to misunderstandings and comical situations.

All Men Are the Same

1966

Thirst for Life poster
5.3

Katerina is a spoiled rich woman who spends her time playing with the men who surround her. Only herself and her parents know she is dying and that the first possible emotion will be fatal.She knows that the first time she will love will be the last one and so he is not given to anyone until he meets Stephanos.

Thirst for Life

1964

Fanouris and His Kin poster
7.8

A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful expatriate brother to finally see their older sister get married. However, is the wealthy sibling willing to help?

Fanouris and His Kin

1957

The Trial of an Innocent poster
5.5

At the beginning of his trial, the accused Vassilis Doranis takes account of the events that brought him to the dock. From a very young age, he did everything for his younger brother, Mimis, sacrificing his own career to study the other. Mimis, instead of looking at his studies and lessons, preferred to spend his time in fun and entertainment. He went on to do the same prodigious life, and when he went to post-graduate studies in Germany, and when he returned, he even did not hesitate to cast himself on Anna, his brother's girlfriend. Vassilis had forgiven him for all this and reached up to the point of admitting that he was the drunk driver who dragged someone and left him helpless, dying in the middle of the road. For this criminal negligence of his brother, Vasilis is now in the dock, but he does not regret his choice. The one who regrets is Mimis, who gets angry at the court and assumes his responsibilities, admitting his guilt.

The Trial of an Innocent

1969

Υποψήφιοι βουλευτές και βουλευτίνες poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Υποψήφιοι βουλευτές και βουλευτίνες

1980

Ballad of the Lost Moonlight poster
NR

One night, a woman and a man in a house, while outside the city lives and entertains.

Ballad of the Lost Moonlight

2002

Το μυστικό της κατηγορούμενης poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Το μυστικό της κατηγορούμενης

1958

Stratis Has Strayed poster
7.0

Poor and unappreciated writer besieged by producer of cinema to give consent for turning a book into a movie.

Stratis Has Strayed

1969

A Pitiful Don Juan poster
5.4

A wealthy man is responsible for his friend’s daughter, who has come to Athens to study. The girl messes up his life and soon falls in love with him. Although he behaves like a father to her, he is tempted and jealous and flirts with her in front of a charming classmate of her, who is also interested in the girl.

A Pitiful Don Juan

1960