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"Maria Kavoyannis"
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Maria Kavoyannis (Athens, January 13, 1958) is a Greek actress.
Life Story
Born 1958. He grew up in Byron, Attica. He studied economics at the Athens University of Economics and pedagogicals at the Maraslio School. He worked many years as an educator. He also studied at the Drama School of Charles Koun, where he graduated in 1986 along with Kate Constantine and Yro Mane.
He has performed from very comical roles, such as Aspasia in Dolce Vita and Corina in Crimes, to very tragic, such as Helen's in Joy Missing.
In 2015 he starred in Christopher Papakaliatis' film, Another world.
Personal life
She is married to sculptor Peter Dritsona, with whom she has a daughter, Adelais (Adelais), born in 1996. Her daughter's godmother is Kate Constantine.
Career
Her first appearance on television became as herself participating in the first game show of Greek private television, namely Mega Channel Teleblophes. There since November 1989, and for a television season, she was one of the show's contestants on the side of presenter Vassilis Chivilika. In the 1992–1993 season she made her television debut as an actor in the MEGA era drama series The guards of Achaia have a small role of a few incidents and specifically that of the servant of the Villa family. In 1993 he made a small appearance in the Rosalia comedy series, a best seller, in a Anna Panagiotopoulou script, while having a role of five episodes in the ANT1 barbarities comedy series. Her extraordinary appearances in the Agia Tetrada and A Greek series followed in 1995.
Her first major television role, and the one that made her recognizable to the general public, was that of the housekeeper of the family Markatos, Aspasia Vardacikos, in the comedy series of Alexander Riga and Lefteri Papapetrou Dolce Vita in Mega. There in the 1995–1997 seasons he took the baptism of foros as a protagonist, with the role of nymphomaniac Aspasia staying in television history as one of the audience's favorites. In 1996 he appeared in an episode of the series of Dimitra Papadopoulou Good Untangled while in 1998 he played along with Lakis Lazopoulos in the anniversary episode of his Ten Little Mtsos Magias! played by Tasos' fiancée. In the 1998–1999 season came the next, particularly known, leading role of the prostitute Corina Mitropoulou in the black comedy of Lefteris Papapetrou Crimes. The series was a huge success in the 1998–2000 seasons, while the role of Corina Mitropoulou was the one that was inextricably linked to the series. In 2000 he first worked with director and creator Panos Kokkinopoulos through the Red Circle series. Initially he participated in the episode of an earthly God while some time later he also starred in the history of Patrinom, thus presenting a dramatic role for the first time television. In the 2001-200 season