Eleni Prokopiou
Oyuncu · Athens, Greece
Eleni Prokopiou (Greek: Ελένη Προκοπίου, Athens , 1939 – Athens, September 27, 2026) was a Greek actress, dancer, and choreographer. She rose to prominence through her appearances in films from the golden age of Greek cinema. Between her film debut in 1960 and 1972, she appeared in a total of 23 movies. She held leading roles in many of these—particularly when the part required dancing—as she was a dancer herself and choreographed her own routines for some of the films. She began studying dance at the age of six alongside Martha Karagianni at the dance school of Loukia Sakellariou-Kotsopoulou, who had established her own academy at the Athens Conservatoire. As children, she and Martha Karagianni performed together at the Greek National Opera. They graduated in the late 1950s. She formed a dance duo with Vangelis Seilinos, performing together in both theater and film. From 1960 to 1965, the Seilinos-Prokopiou duo performed in dance numbers at most of the capital's revue theaters. She also formed an on-screen duo with Giorgos Pantzas, appearing together in five films. She starred in films of every genre—musicals, comedies, and dramas. Early in her career, she appeared solely as a dancer in both theater and cinema; specifically, she had dancing roles in three films: "Sunday’s Date" (1960), "Athens by Night" (1962), and "Betrayed Love" (1962). She subsequently appeared in Nikos Koundouros’s "Young Aphrodites" (1963), a film that achieved international success. This was followed by "The Emir and the Wretch" (1964), in which she played Gulinar, a stunning princess from an Eastern emirate. Next came "The Face of the Day" (1965) and "Rendezvous in the Air" (1965)—where she performed as both a dancer and an actress, thereby becoming part of the Finos Films family—followed by "And the… 14 Were Wonderful!" (1965). In 1966, she played leading roles in five films: "Paranomoi Pothoi" (Finos Film), "To Syrtaki tis Amartias", "Pente Chiliades Psemata" (Finos Film), "Oi Kyries tis Avlis" (Finos Film—the scene featuring the water from the broken tap, alongside Kostas Prekas, is now considered a classic), and "Agapi pou den Svinei o Chronos" (1966). In the following years, she starred in lower-budget films featuring actors such as Nikos Stavridis, Tasos Giannopoulos, Fragkiskos Manellis, Tzeni Roussea, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Alekos Tzanetakos, Nikos Dadinopoulos, Nikos Rizos, and Sotiris Moustakas, among others. Specifically, these films included: "O Gambros mou o Proikothiras" (1967), "Mini Fousta kai Karate" (1967), "Orkizomai eimai Athoa" (1968), "O Boufos" (1968), "Enas Ippotis me Tsarouchia" (1968), "O Stavros einai Poniros" (1970), "Omorfopaida" (1971), "O Paragios mou o Ralistas" (1971), and "Dakrya gia enan Aliti" (1971). Her final film (for Finos Films) was "To Koroidaki tis Principessas" (1972), in which she played a naive actress and dancer. She was carrying some extra weight in the film, as she was already married and two months pregnant, while also undergoing hormone therapy due to pregnancy complications. Throughout these years, she appeared regularly on stage. She made her theatrical debut as a dancer at the age of 14 at the Olympia Theatre in Piraeus, partnering with the famous dancer of the era, Dimitris Ivanov. She passed away on September 27, 2026, at the age of 87.
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Film6.5DramRomantik200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.
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Film9.5KomediA professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.
Film5.0KomediMüzikStavros has a cafe with his brother years and are the only ones in the family who care to get by. He is in love with Mary, which, however, not turning to look at him. Mary comes from an ...
Film6.2KomediAn engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the persistent remarks of his wife on this. When a businessman, on the one hand, and his company's executives, on the other hand, will try to lure him to serve their conflicting interests in the construction of a new road, the engineer reacts.
Film5.8KomediFour cousins inherit a rich uncle. In order to do this, however, they must first fulfill the terms that each uncle has laid down in his covenant.
Film4.8KomediA clerk, choked by debts, accidentally knows a rich girl and for the sake of wanting to leave the Trailer Trash he loves. But the latter did not easily give up
Film7.8KomediThe Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and vibrant with life yard of a neighborhood of old Athens.
Film7.0DramRomantikAnthoula has lost her mother and her father is swept away by his new love, Martha, and moves away from Anthoula to live in Aphrodite's house. Aphrodite pushes Anthoula into the arms of her son Thanos, with her sights set on her fortune. But Alekos, who truly loves Anthoula, will reveal the plot, and her father will leave Martha.
Film7.7GerilimDramGreek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family after being raped by her sister's husband.
Film5.8KomediAn Arab monarch arrives in Athens accompanied by his wife and his beautiful daughter, who falls in love with a charming background actor. Of course, the princess is unaware of his innocent ruse. What will happen when the truth comes out?
Film6.2KomediA hopeful Miss Europe 1966 and her girlfriends fall for an aircraftman and his friends. To be together, they take advantage of their commander's adoration for the famous actress, Rena Vlahopoulou. Who says no to a rendezvous with love?
Film6.6KomediGrigoris (Kostas Voutsas), a shopkeeper from Katerini, wins the first prize at a radio station that covers his expenses for a week in Athens. Arriving in the capital, the members of two gangs think it is Polydoros, the man who was to carry a stolen ancient statue to sell it to a rich collector. Grigoris, by chance, acquires the statue, and the captain (Kostas Kazakos) of a gang, with the help of a charming woman (Eleni Prokopiou), tries to trap him. Eventually, Grigoris will be hunted by both the gangs and the police ...
Film9.0KomediAn advertising executive, in order to deal with his financial problems, uses his talent to impersonate the Italian son of a businessman, the fruit of a youthful passion. His appearance will cause a lot of turmoil and misunderstandings. When the owner of his office comes to ask for his overdue rent, he is accompanied by a client from Italy.
Film6.0KomediAlekos falls in love with Sophie, daughter of tycoon Grigoriadis, and is presented as the son of industrialist Merntsesoli.
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Film9.0KomediA young man who dresses up as a soldier so that female tourists can take photos of him at the Acropolis tries to get lucky and marry the girl he loves.
Film7.0KomediManolis, who works in the coffee house of Agisilaos, complains to his mother that he gets very tired at work, but she gets into trouble when she realizes that her son's boss is flirting with her.
Film8.3KomediA tenant who wants to write an armed forces officer's biography falls head over heels with his beautiful niece instead. As his friend falls in love with the same girl, they all meet with his sour landlady. But, can one put love on hold?
Film4.8DramThe rich Petros and Eleni, who has a strict brother, have a relationship that is going through a difficult time due to their family environment and especially his mother. He goes to the army, his traces are lost, and she is thrown out by her own brother and finds herself on the street. A promoter (Vangelis Seilinos) exploits her and she becomes a stripper in a cabaret. After a while, he appears, the couple is back together, but she does not tell him what job she does. Until a friend tells the young man the truth and takes him to the cabaret...