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Katerina Gogou

1940 - 1993 (age 53) • Acting

Katerina Gogou (Greek: Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greek actress, poet, author and anarchist activist. She was born in 1940 during World War II and the Axis occupation of Greece, for which she did not spend a pleasant childhood. She had a strict father with whom she lived during her childhood. Afterwards, in her teenage years, she lived with her mother. From the age of 5 years she started acting in children's plays. Professionally she debuted in theater with Dinos Iliopoulos' theater company in the play Ο Κύριος πέντε τοις εκατό (Mr. five percent) in 1961. She made her first cinematographic appearance in the film Ο άλλος (The other one / The other person). Most of the films she participated in were Finos Film productions. She became more widely known for roles of cheerful and carefree women like in the movies Το ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισο (The wood came out of paradise) and Μια τρελή τρελή οικογένεια (A crazy crazy family). She has received the award for best actress in a lead role in Thessaloniki International Film Festival for the film Το βαρύ πεπόνι (The heavy melon - this phrase in Greek is an idiom referring to someone who tries to appear as a macho man), directed by Pavlos Tasios. As a poet she was known for her revolutionary and aggressive writing. She was an anarchist and her political identity was often reflected in her poems, such as "Υπερασπίζομαι την Αναρχία" (I support/defend Anarchy) or "Εμένα οι φίλοι μου είναι μαύρα πουλιά" (My friends are black birds). She also wrote some books with one of them, Τρία κλικ αριστερά (Three Clicks Left), being translated into English in 1983 by Jack Hirschman and published by Night Horn Books in San Francisco and also into Turkish in 2018 by Turkish author Mahir Ergun and published by Belge International Publishing House in Istanbul.

Known For

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

74%

Pagona

1965

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

67%

Froso Karathanasi

1971

A Crazy, Crazy Family

79%

Sissy

1965

The Right-Minded Madman

61%

Kaiti Labreta

1968

Wedding like... Greek

61%

Mina's friend

1964

Parangelia!

75%

Narrator

1980

The Antisocial

70%

Toula

1977

South Wind

53%

Νίκη

1984

Katerina Gogou: For the Restoration of Blackness

Self

2013

South Wind

53%

Νίκη

1984

South Wind

53%

Writer

1984

Parangelia!

75%

Narrator

1980

1922

57%

Ilias' teacher

1978

The Antisocial

70%

Toula

1977

Yes, But...

43%
1972

Great Brides, Gullible Grooms

80%

Bubi

1972

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

67%

Froso Karathanasi

1971

Love forever

75%
1970

Crazy Girls Awesome Boys

80%
1970

A woman's sacrifice

60%
1969

The Barber's Beauty

55%

Anna

1969

Wounded youth

80%
1969

The Right-Minded Madman

61%

Kaiti Labreta

1968

A Crazy, Crazy Family

79%

Sissy

1965

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

74%

Pagona

1965

A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

57%

Betty Konstadinea

1965

Poverty

70%

Anna

1965

Miss Manager

75%

Diana

1964

Wedding like... Greek

61%

Mina's friend

1964

Tired life

80%
1964

Marriage Lads

70%
1963

Restless youth

1963

The Liar

53%

Dolly

1963

Τα παληόπαιδα

70%
1963

Nomos 4000

61%

Kleio

1962

Koutroulis` Wedding

50%

Matina

1962

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