Ellie Lambeti

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Birth Name: Ellie Loukou

Born: 13 April 1926 Died: 3 September 1983

Country of origin: Greece

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Description: Lambeti was born in 1926 in the village of Vilia, Attiki, to Kostas Loukos and Anastasia Stamati. She had six siblings. Her maternal grandfather was a Captain Stamatis who fought together with Kolokotronis against the Turks in 1821, when the modern Greek democracy was created. In 1928 the family moved to Athens. In 1941, she was rejected from two theatre schools, the state one, named Ethniko and one private named after the Greek actress, Marika Kotopouli. But Kotopouli herself recognized Ellie's talent and hired her. She adopted the professional surname Lambeti and became a lead actress. In 1946 Lambeti became one of the ac Lambeti was born in 1926 in the village of Vilia, Attiki, to Kostas Loukos and Anastasia Stamati. She had six siblings. Her maternal grandfather was a Captain Stamatis who fought together with Kolokotronis against the Turks in 1821, when the modern Greek democracy was created. In 1928 the family moved to Athens.
In 1941, she was rejected from two theatre schools, the state one, named Ethniko and one private named after the Greek actress, Marika Kotopouli. But Kotopouli herself recognized Ellie's talent and hired her. She adopted the professional surname Lambeti and became a lead actress.

In 1946 Lambeti became one of the actresses who performed for the famous modern theatre director Karolos Koun; she was the female lead in the Greek productions of the following plays: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1946), Antigone by Anouilh (1947) and Bodas de sangre by Lorca (1948).

In August 1950, she married Marios Ploritis, but their marriage collapsed in 1952 when she had an affair with Dimitris Horn. The following years were dramatic for Ellie: her sister Koula died from cancer in 1955, her other sister Eirini died in a car crash in 1958, and Ellie lost a baby by Horn in 1956. In 1959 she met her American husband, the best-selling novelist Frederic Wakeman, Sr.
She starred in Michael Cacoyannis's Greek masterpieces like Kyriakatiko xypnima (1954), To Koritsi me ta mavra (1956), and To Telefteo psema (1957). She also starred in Kalpiki lira (1955) by George Tzavellas. Lambeti continued her theatrical career: in 1962 came The Heiress, in 1965 as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire.

In the 1970s Lambeti starred in The Little Foxes (1973), Irma La Douce (1972), Miss Margarita (1975) and Filoumena Martourano (1978). And in spite of her success at theatre her personal life was a fiasco: Ellie was involved in a legal procedure about the adoption of a girl named Eliza, from Spring 1970 till 1974, when she lost and gave the child back to its parents.

The subsequent years were a fight against recurrent breast cancer. She successfully starred in theatre productions like Thornton Wilder's Hello, Dolly! (1980) and as Sarah in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God (1981). She died in 1983 from stage 4 breast cancer in New York City, aged 57. ... (more)

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