Maria Katsandri

Acting

Maria Katsandri

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Maria Katsandri is a Greek actress. She was born in Chicago and raised in Athens. She studied at the Karolos Koun Drama School, and after graduating she worked for a while in the theater and then settled in Paris to study. She made her first appearance on television in the series The Stone Lions in 1994. The role that made her known to the general public was that of Aliki in the romantic series Karé tis Damas on Mega Channel. There from 1997 to 2000 she starred alongside Joyce Evidi, Chrysa Spilioti and Mary Stavrakeli, playing four childhood friends who share moments of their lives together. This was followed by participation in the series Crimes, 10 Minute Sermon, Seven Deadly Mother-in-Laws, while in the period 2005-2007 she appeared in the drama series Two Days Only. She made her first appearance in the film Athens in 1990.

Acting credits

What Soul Will You Surrender, Child? — Part One poster
6.5

Four women, from different worlds, reunite after years of silence to fulfill the promise they made in childhood: to take revenge on Gerasimos Mantas, the young director who abused them at the orphanage where they grew up. However, things do not turn out as they had planned. Instead of a well-organized plan of revenge, the situation spirals out of their control, with the women becoming entangled in tragicomic situations filled with failed attempts and unpredictable events. With a dark yet comedic perspective, the film touches on deep human trauma, while the heroines’ quest for revenge becomes the focal point of a black comedy.

What Soul Will You Surrender, Child? — Part One

2026

Pencil Knife Baton poster
NR

Two countries,two languages,two groups of friends. Between black humor and bitter realism the film Pencil Knife Baton composes a tragicomic puzzle about friendship in the paradox world we live in.

Pencil Knife Baton

2021

Wishbone poster
5.0

When the twenty eight -year-old Kostas who has recently become a security guard in a public hospital, is forced to take over the guardianship of his little niece, he gets involved in a medical scam to make ends meet.

Wishbone

2025

No artwork available
NR

A comic tragedy about an obscure but uncompromising journalist, a specialist in ancient Greek sayings, who tries to keep his apartment and lead a decent life, without giving up on his principles, without losing his integrity.

Receptions

2025

Erechtheion and Time poster
NR

Erechtheion and Time directed by A. Drakopoulou. Produced by Acropolis Restoration Service in 2001.

Erechtheion and Time

2001

Strictly Non-Graphic poster
5.1

Two young Greek filmmakers in need of funding for their film titled "The End of Passion" end up seeking the financial aid of an almost forgotten old-time porn-king producer. He agrees to help them while concealing his own secret plan.

Strictly Non-Graphic

2008

Smerdaki poster
NR

'Smerdaki' is a small existential journey to the dark side, which is hidden under the bright sunshine.

Smerdaki

Beatitudes poster
NR

A retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.

Beatitudes

2012

The Woman Is... A Tough Person poster
4.8

Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...

The Woman Is... A Tough Person

2005

Onslaught poster
NR

Aris is a young man living between two worlds. On the one hand, his professional space in the world of entertainment, which thirsts for brilliance, money and power. On the other hand, the suffocating family and the crisis that has hit the country and worsens human relations, which are in any case complicated and traumatic. The protagonist tries to find his balance through love, which also betrays him. Will he finally find a way out?

Onslaught

2016

The Rhapsodist poster
NR

When a rhapsodist begins to tell his tale, the worlds of fact and fiction fold together until the only truth left is the story itself and the rest is just life.

The Rhapsodist

2024

The Interrogation poster
3.3

She is a performance artist who uses self-torture as an art form. When she realizes that the relationship with her father is poisoning her behavior and discourages anyone who is trying to love her, she decides to search out the past of her tortured by the military junta father.

The Interrogation

2019

Utopia poster
NR

In an unspecified near future, humanity seems to have turned into a fishbowl: everything is transparent, monitored by an all-powerful central authority, while people are trapped and suffer from almost complete amnesia—just like goldfish.

Utopia

2004