Gelly Mavropoulou

Birthday: 1932-10-21
Deathday: 2021-07-19
Birthplace: Thessaloniki, Greece
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

Gelly (Angeliki) Mavropoulou (Thessaloniki, 21 October 1932 – Athens, 19 July 2021) was a Greek actress.

She was born in Thessaloniki in 1932. Her parents were also actors Angelos Mavropoulos (1901–1979) and Marika Krevata (1910–1994).

She studied at the French Academy of Athens and at the Drama School of the "Art Theater" of Karolos Koun.

Geli Mavropoulou first appeared in the cinema in 1953 with the film Papa is Being Trained by Giorgos Lazaridis and was followed by leading roles in more than 40 more films covering all genres of Greek cinema from the period 1950-1980, classic comedies (The Beauty of Athens, by Nikos Tsiforos, 1954; The Aunt from Chicago by Alekos Sakellarios, 1957; Fanouris and His Family by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, 1957; Fortunately I Went Crazy by Kostas Andritsos, 1961; Company of Miracles by Stefanos Stratigos, 1962; The Gentleman's Wife by Yiannis Dalianidis, 1962; The Messer by Grigoris Grigoriou, 1967), melodramas (Red Roses by Kostas Andritsos, 1955; The Little Sprout by Jason Novak, 1955; The Wandering of an Innocent by Kostas Andritsos, 1959; The Road with Red Lights by Kostas Karagiannis, 1963; Every Port and Woe by Homer Efstratiadis, 1964), resistance adventures (The Brave Die Twice by Takis Vougiouklakis, 1973), historical dramas (Ali Pasha and Lady Frosini by Stefanos Stratigos, 1959), frock films (Myrtia by Kostas Karagiannis, 1961), film noir (Crime in Kolonaki by Tzanis Aliferis, 1960; The Kidnapping of Kostas Karagiannis, 1964; Emergency Exit by Nikos Foskolos, 1980), spy thrillers (The Avenue of Betrayal by Christos Kyriakopoulos, 1969), and even films of the new Greek cinema (The Honeymoon by Giorgos Panousopoulos, 1979). Her last film appearance was in the film 17 Bullets for an Angel (1981) by Nikos Foskolos-Takis Vougiouklakis.

Her greatest cinematic successes are considered to be the role of Katina, the unmarried girl who must be rehabilitated at all costs in the film Fanouris and His Family (1957) by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, alongside Mimis Fotopoulos, the role of Eva, the cunning and ambitious middle-class woman who directs her husband's career, in the film The Gentleman's Wife (1962) by Yiannis Dalianidis, alongside Dinos Iliopoulos, and the role of Dimitra, the widow of Lieutenant Avgeris, who hires a double to play her husband, in Takis Vougiouklakis' film The Brave Die Twice (1973), alongside Angelos Antonopoulos. It is worth noting that she is the protagonist who launched rock and roll in Greek cinema, along with Theodoros Dimitriev, in the film The Aunt from Chicago (1957).

She died on July 19, 2021, at the age of 88. Her body was cremated, and her ashes were interred in the mausoleum of Greek artists at the First Cemetery of Athens.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	1981-01-12	17 Bullets for an Angel	Eleni Konstadopoulou
	1980-11-24	Emergency exit	Katia Theohari
	1979-10-01	Honeymoon	Erato
	1973-12-12	The Brave Die Twice	Dimitra Avgeri
	1973-09-23	Twenty Women and I
	1969-05-08	Treason Avenue	Anna Vergou
	1967-01-01	From Jerusalem with love
	1967-01-01	Anakatosouras	Lila Karatoulpani
	1965-01-01	My Life Belongs To You	Marina Holeva
	1965-01-01	You have to live my love	Stella Logotheti
	1965-01-01	Η πικραγαπημένη
	1964-07-26	Abduction
	1964-01-01	Every Port And Woe	Sophia Razi
	1964-01-01	Κατατρεγμένοι της μοίρας
	1963-08-17	The road with red lights
	1962-11-14	Company of Miracles	Mina
	1962-03-12	The Miss Of The Mister	Eva Kanoudi
	1962-01-01	Pure And Dishonored	Miranda
	1962-01-01	Crime in Omonia
	1961-10-23	Eftyhos... trellathika!	Iro Lekaki
	1961-03-25	Μυρτιά	Myrtia
	1961-01-09	Oi 900 tis Marinas	Marina Dalegou
	1961-01-01	Golgotha of an Innocent
	1960-01-18	Crime in Kolonaki	Myrto Kapsi
	1960-01-01	Tsakitzis: The Patron Saint of the Poor	Zehra
	1960-01-01	Για την αγάπη μιας ορφανής
	1959-03-02	Το παραστράτημα μιας αθώας	Fani
	1959-01-01	Ali Pasas and Lady Frosyni	Kyra Frosyni
	1958-02-03	Δυο αγάπες δυο κόσμοι	Καίτη
	1957-12-16	The Auntie from Chicago	Eleni Barda
	1957-12-02	Fanouris and His Kin	Κατίνα
	1957-03-18	Of Fortune The Written	Elenitsa
	1957-02-01	The Girl Has Got an Uncle	Violetta Gioupi
	1956-12-31	Φτώχεια Έρως και Κομπίνα
	1955-02-21	To Fintanaki	Toula
	1955-01-01	Red roses
	1955-01-01	Rolled in the mud
	1954-03-13	The Beauty of Athens	Tonia
	1953-01-01	The Father Is Training	Myrto