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Rena Vlahopoulou

Rena Vlahopoulou

Actor · 1923 – 2004 · Corfu, Greece

Irene "Rena" Vlahopoulou (Greek: Ειρήνη (Ρένα) Βλαχοπούλου; 28 July 1923 – 29 July 2004) was a Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu. Vlahopoulou was born on 28 July 1923 on the island of Corfu, the fifth of nine children. She first began playing the piano, taught by her father, Giannis Vlahopoulos. When she turned ten, she began singing at a local bakery; she was a talented dancer and actress and a qualified mezzo-soprano. Over the course of her fifty-five-year career she appeared in 105 theatrical plays between 1939 and 1994, and twenty-six films between 1951 and 1985. In 1939, Vlahopoulou and AEK Athens footballer, Kostas Vasiliou eloped to Athens and were married. She began singing at the Oasis varieté show in the Zappeion gardens, where Mimis Traiforos presented his new work. In the winter of 1930–40, she sang at the World Theatre of Kostas Makedos on Panepistimiou Street. The marriage with Vasiliou ended. In 1942 she married her second husband, a banker, Giannis Kostopoulos; the couple divorced in 1946. She married her third and final husband, entrepreneur Giorgos Lafazanis, on 18 September 1967. They remained wed until her death in 2004. Vlahopoulou had no children by any of her marriages. She left Finos Film in 1966 and moved to Karagiannis-Karatzopoulos. From 1972, she continued to star in films for the next seven years. In 1992–93, she starred in the musical comedy Gia Tin Ellada Re Gamo To (Για την Ελλάδα ρε γαμώ το), after which she retired. Vlahopoulou died at 7 pm on 29 July 2004, after being hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Athens Medical Center, aged 81. On 30 July 2004, her body was exposed in a popular pilgrimage in the chapel of Saint Lazarus in the First Cemetery of Athens. She was buried at a public expense on 31 July 2004, accompanied by the band of the Philharmonic Society "Mantzaros" that came from Corfu, in the presence of many of her colleagues and ordinary people. On the day of her funeral all shops in Corfu remained closed, as a sign of mourning. Her hometown honored her by naming the old theatre "Mon Repo", to the "Rena Vlahopoulou" theatre. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movies24

  • Movie6.7

    A Greek woman in a Harem

    Μια Ελληνίδα στο Χαρέμι

    1971 · 21 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.9

    The Parisian Lady

    Η Παριζιάνα

    1969 · 19 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.0

    Kiss the Girls

    Κορίτσια Για Φίλημα

    1965 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Gambler Lady

    Η χαρτοπαίχτρα

    1964 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Parliamentarian Lady

    Η Βουλευτίνα

    1966 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Someone like It Cold...

    Μερικοί Το Προτιμούν Κρύο...

    1963 · 15 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Affet Beni Allah'ım

    1953 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.9

    The Fantarines

    Οι Φανταρίνες

    1979 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Something Hot

    Κάτι να Καίει

    1964 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.4

    My Aunt the Hippie

    Η Θεία Μου η Χίπισσα

    1970 · 17 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Rena... Here's the Opportunity

    Ρένα... Να η Ευκαιρία

    1980 · 5 votes

  • Movie3.9

    The Mommy, the Chic and the Hunk

    Η Μανούλα, το Μανούλι και ο Παίδαρος

    1982 · 8 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Politsmana's Balcony

    Της Πολιτσμάνας το... Κάγκελο!!

    1981 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Viva Rena

    Βίβα Ρένα

    1967 · 10 votes

  • Movie4.2

    The jealous woman

    Η ζηλιάρα

    1968 · 10 votes

  • Movie7.4

    The Robber Cries Thief!

    Φωνάζει Ο Κλέφτης

    1965 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Date In The Air

    Ραντεβού Στον Αέρα

    1966 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.4

    One Girl For Two Men

    Ένα Κορίτσι για Δυο

    1963 · 15 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Groom Urgently Wanted

    Ζητείται Επειγόντως Γαμπρός

    1971 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Countess of Corfu

    Η Κόμησσα Της Κέρκυρας

    1972 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Capital adventures

    Πρωτευουσιάνικες περιπέτειες

    1956 · 5 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Iron Lady

    Σιδηρά κυρία

    1983 · 8 votes

Series5

  • TV
  • TV6.8

    You Can’t Take From One Who Does Not Have

    Ούκ αν Λάβοις Παρά του μη Έχοντος

    2010 · 8 votes

  • TV

    Enopios Enopio

    Ενώπιος Ενωπίω

    1991

  • TV8.5
  • TV

    Mazi

    Μαζί

    2000