Elli Fotiou

Acting

Elli Fotiou

Born 1939-09-30 · Piraeus, Greece

Elli Fotiou (Greek: Elli Fotiou, Piraeus, 30 September 1939) is the stage name of Evangelia Trigonopoulou (Ευαγγελία Τριγονοπούλου), a Greek stage and film actress, wife of fellow actor Stefanos Linaios. She graduated from the Drama School of the National Theatre in 1962. She has appeared in numerous theatre, film, radio and television productions. She is a member of the Greek Actors' Union and the Greek Theatre Centre. She has represented Greece at the Cannes Film Festival (1965), Berlin (1966) and Moscow (1966). In 1966 she won the First Prize for Performance at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the play Epistrofi.

Acting credits

The 7th Day of Creation poster
6.7

A newlywed man who has just completed his national service, Alekos Stathakis, is trying to get over his class' misery, but doesn't have the necessary "equipment". He conceives an ambitious plan and submits it to a great concrete factory. He seems to believe that success is just around the corner and shares his illusion with his wife and his father. When his plan is rejected by the company, he keeps it to himself, making things even worse. He keeps leaving home to seemingly go to work and wanders to no purpose in Athens. He watches the world around him without really seeing anything, until a fatal accident ends his tragedy

The 7th Day of Creation

1966

Electra poster
7.0

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Electra

1962

One-Penny Youth poster
5.4

A newly wed couple cannot pay the installments for their house. Thus, Irene finds a secretary position at the firm George is working at, pretending she is George's sister. The company director, a womanizer, is flirting with her and asks her to marry him, while his sister starts flirting with George . . .

One-Penny Youth

1967

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

The third way poster
8.0

A woman (Tasso Kavvadia), the scion of a wealthy family, returns to Greece after many years and claims her son (George Marinos) from her ex-husband (Dimitris Myrat). She wants to make her son a director in her companies and marry him to a girl (Elli Fotiou), whom she has chosen herself.

The third way

1963

Return poster
7.0

When a woman learns that her fiancé has been killed in an air raid during World War II, she is forced to become a prostitute in order to support herself and their child. When her fiancé, having survived the accident, returns, she ends her life, unable to hide the shame she felt for what she had to do during the years of occupation.

Return

1965

The Fear poster
7.2

In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. Meanwhile, his son the pervert becomes fascinated with the family's maid, a deaf-mute.

The Fear

1966

Jealousy poster
9.0

A successful businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Sadly, it will take more than a decade to unearth the truth, as his daughter thirsts for answers and closure. But, were they, indeed, lovers?

Jealousy

1963

Make Me A Woman poster
5.3

A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail?

Make Me A Woman

1965

Confession of a Mother poster
8.0

Having found, after many years, the man she loved and their daughter, a woman hesitates to reveal herself to them and decides to write her story in a letter to the young girl.

Confession of a Mother

1962

Treason poster
6.1

A Nazi officer arrives in occupied Athens in 1941 and falls in love with a Jewish girl, unaware of her true identity.

Treason

1964