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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1939-08-12

Place of Birth

Athens, Greece

Katerina Helmy

Biography

Katerina Helmi (Greek: Κατερίνα Χέλμη, Athens, 12 August 1939 - Kifissia, 15 April 2023) was a Greek actress. She became widely known to the Greek audience through roles in some of the most beloved films of Greek cinema. Her first appearance in cinema was in 1957 in the film Barbagiannis the Pitcher, but her greatest success is The Red Lights. She was also the rival of Aliki Vougiouklaki in the film Our Love. During her career, she has participated in more than 25 films and 4 television series. She has also written several books. Her husband was the professor and academic Konstantinos Svolopoulos. Unlike her husband Konstantinos Svolopoulos, who was a close friend of Konstantinos Karamanlis and director of the Karamanlis Foundation, Katerina Helmi was politically active in PASOK, as a member of the Trade Union Committee of Scientists-Artists. In the 1994 municipal elections, she was elected as a municipal councilor of the Municipality of Athens with the faction of Theodoros Pangalos. She died on 15 April 2023.

Known for

I Hameni Anoixi

I Hameni Anoixi

Οικογένεια

Οικογένεια

Νατάσα

Νατάσα

There Are No Deserters

There Are No Deserters

August 1944, and a captain in the Greek army in the Middle East, Jason, secretly disembarks on an island with the mission of gathering information on the state of the German defensive positions, in view of the imminent landing of the Allied Forces. To complete his mission, he makes contact with some rebels, but the Germans are aware of his presence and arrest twelve men to force him to surrender. Shortly before the deadline expires, a local man who had been declared a deserter shortly before the war began and had been in hiding, presents himself at his post and is executed, making his wife and son proud.

Εις θάνατον

Εις θάνατον

Crooked Deeds

Crooked Deeds

Dimitris, a poor painter who feels deeply disappointed in his life, leaves his wife and begins to wander aimlessly. The woman who raised him after the death of his parents, Mrs. Marigo, must now undergo a difficult operation and Dimitris is forced to submit to the whims of the rich Rita, in order to help his sick nanny. Another failed painter, Alexis, who lives as a gigolo, is also Rita's lover, but Dimitris is unaware of this. Will the silent anti-jealousy end in a stabbing? (greek-movies.com)

Nomos 4000

Nomos 4000

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..

Ο γυρολόγος

Ο γυρολόγος

The Red Lanterns

The Red Lanterns

The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.

Angel

Angel

Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover.

Mara, the Gypsy

Mara, the Gypsy

A wealthy young man falls in love with the Roma girl Mara. Both the young man's family and the girl's family react to the possibility of the two lovers getting together, and conflict is inevitable.

Uncle Giannis, the Potter

Uncle Giannis, the Potter

Barba Giannis the potter tries to match Krinio with the wealthy Alexandros Harisis. Her mother Margarou and her uncle Platon feel very lucky, but Krinio is in love with Loukas and can no longer bear her mother's pressure.

Athens dances Rock 'n' Roll

Athens dances Rock 'n' Roll

The film refers to the fashion of the new American rock and roll dance, which also reached Athens. It is a short film that cost 100,000 drachmas. When Costas Karras appears in the movie, he says that it is a "rock and roll" competition in which he won an electric guitar and that his partner Katerina Helmi was a top performer at that time.

Our love

Our love

An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.