Kyveli Theohari

Născut 13 sept. 1924 · Athens, Greece

Kyveli Theohari - Zografidi (September 13, 1924 - February 7, 2017) was a Greek actress, daughter of the leading actress Miranda Myrat and Spyros Theoharis, granddaughter of Kyveli and Mitsos Myrat and first cousin of Kyveli Myrat-Marinou. Se made his debut with Mrs. Katerina's troupe (1954) in the play Leisure Trip. The following year she participated in the troupe of her mother and Lambros Konstandaras, playing in the plays Two White Roses and Oi metresses tou baba. At the same time, she took days at the "poetry evenings" organized by Miranda Myrat at the "Kyvelis" Theater in Syntagma Square. In 1956 she collaborated with the Iliopoulos-Photopoulos troupe, where she appeared in Alek Sakellario's comedy My Friend Lefterakis and in the play A Nettle in the Violets. This is followed by her collaboration with Vassilis Logothetides' troupe (1957-59), where she played in the works The Steering Wheel of Love by Panagiotis Kayas and Ilias of the 16th by Sakellarios and Giannakopoulos. In 1955, she appeared in Orestis Laskos' film Golfo, based on the play of the same name by Spyros Peresiadis, in the role of Stavroula. This was followed by The Stranger (1956) by Orestes Laskos, in the role of Eftychia, where she played together with Kyveli's grandmother, The Jealous Man (1956) by Giorgos Tzavellas, with Vassilis Logothetidis (film adaptation of G. Roussos's comedy The Lover Comes) in the role of Kiki Manolopoulou, Stournara 288 (1959) by Dinos Dimopoulos (this is the comedy of the same name by Traiforo-Vassiliadis) in the role of Fofi Asimomytis, O Ilias of the 16th (1959) by Alekos Sakellarios in the role of Alexa Konstantinidou, Blossoming Almond Tree (1959) by Christos Apostolos, The Municipality of Trikala (1962) by Yiannis Dalianidis, where she co-starred with Kostas Hatzichristos in the role of Lela et al. In the summer of 2014, and at the age of 90, she returned after decades to the cinema, starring in Alessandro Spiliotopulos' docufiction film Daughters of Chaos, a co-production of the Kyveli Institute and Tetrafillon Films. This short film presents in an original and sometimes subversive way the history of the great theater family of Kyveli and the special relationship of the family with the works of Pirandello, against the background of Greece and Europe of the first half of the 20th century.