Aliki Vougiouklaki (Greek: Αλίκη Βουγιουκλάκη; July 20, 1933 – July 23, 1996) was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.
Biography
Aliki Stamatina Vougiouklaki was born in Marousi, Athens Prefecture. She had two brothers, Takis (film director) and Antonis (an architect). Her father, Ioannis Vougiouklakis, was the provincial governor of Arcadia in the Peloponnese during the war, and executed by the resistance organisation ELAS as a collaborator.
As a student Aliki regularly took part in school plays which eventually led her to dream of an acting career. She attended classes in the National Theatre of Greece and started to act professional while still a student. News papers and magazines soon started to praise her acting ability, which lead swiftly to her first lead role in the 1953 movie The Little Mouse (To Pontikaki).
Career
She appeared in 42 movies, mostly musicals, and in a wide variety of television programs, theatre and stage productions. In the 1960s she collaborated with Dimitris Papamichail in a number of popular movies. The popular celebrity couple married in the 1960s, but divorced in 1975. She received the prize for lead woman’s role at the inaugural Greek Cinema Festival in Thessaloniki in 1960 for her starring role in the movie "Mantalena". Her first film was Nikos Tsiforos’ "The little Mouse", followed by scores of other popular dramatic and comic films.
Her film I Aliki sto Naftiko (Aliki in the Navy) sold more than 590,000 tickets. In 1962 she wrote the script for Finos Films, Aliki my love, which premiered in London and Athens in 1964, but was a total flop. This was the first and final attempt to become an international movie star.
She was popularly known in press as the "National star of Greece" – the term first used by journalist Eleni Vlahou. In 1970 came her biggest success with the film Ipolochagos Natassa, about a young Greek woman who lost her husband during the Second World War. The film sold more than 750,000 tickets.
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