Ellie Lambeti
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Family
Lambeti was born in 1926 in the village of
Early career
Ellie studied theatre at Marika Kotopouli's drama school. She made her first steps on the stage at the time of German occupation of Greece. She passed this difficult period as all her theatre colleges. In 1941, she was rejected from two theatre schools: the state one (Ethniko) and a private one named for the Greek actress Marika Kotopouli. However, Kotopouli herself recognized Lambeti's talent and hired her. She adopted the professional surname Lambeti and became a lead actress. She starred in Hanneles Himmelfahrt by Hauptmann. In 1945, she met Marios Ploritis, her future husband, during the filming one of her first films, Adoulotoi sklavoi (1946).[citation needed]
In 1946 Lambeti became one of the actresses who performed for the famous modern theatre director Karolos Koun; she was the female lead in the Greek productions of the following plays:
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1946)
- Antigone by Anouilh (1947)
- Bodas de sangre by Lorca(1948)
1950s/1960s
In August 1950, she married Marios Ploritis, but their marriage collapsed in 1952 when she had a love affair with
Late life and career
In the 1970s Lambeti starred in The Little Foxes (1973), Irma La Douce (1972), Miss Margarita (1975) and Filoumena Martourano (1978). And in spite of her success at theater, her personal life was a fiasco: Ellie was involved in a legal procedure about the adoption of a girl named Eliza, from Spring 1970 till 1974, when she lost and gave the child back to its parents.[2]
Last years
The subsequent years were a fight against recurrent breast cancer. She successfully starred in theatre productions like Thornton Wilder's Hello, Dolly! (1980) and as Sarah in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God (1981), but her health was poor. She died in 1983 (3 September) from stage 4 breast cancer in New York City, aged 57.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "Ellie Lambeti-Biography" Retrieved on 08 Jan 2018
- ^ Lambeti-Biography Retrieved on 08 Jan 2018
External links
- Ellie Lambeti at IMDb