Melpo Zarokosta
Melpo Zarokosta (Piraeus, May 7, 1933) is a Greek actress.
She was born in Piraeus in 1933. She is the daughter of Elias Zarokosta, one of the first Greek actuaries, and Despina Spyropoulou. After the War, she emigrated for a short time to Alexandria, Egypt, and then to Sydney, Australia, where she studied theater at the Metropolitan Theater and at the Canandale School of Radio Studies, directing, screenwriting, and acting. She stayed there for 11 years and began her artistic career in television and theater. She performed in Sydney in Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and also Hecuba in Greek for the Greek community. In 1957, she married her first husband, pianist Andreas Diamantidis, and went with him to London, where they stayed for a year. Due to family obligations, she returned to Greece in 1958. Almost simultaneously with her return to Athens, she began her collaboration with the company of Lambros Konstantaras. There she met her future second husband, also an actor and director, Victor Pagoulatos, with whom she had a son, Alexander. She was involved in translating and adapting plays for theater, radio and television. She wrote her first play, The Women's Tutoring School, in which she co-starred with Dinos Iliopoulos, Nora Valsami and Nikos Apergi. Since then, several of her own plays have been performed in Athens and the province. She was the first female member of the Greek Playwrights' Society since 1960, a member of the Board of Directors. since 1990 and President of the Company from 1999 to 2001.

The Papadopoulou Family

Life Sentence

My wife went mad

O kapetanios ki i horeftria

Death Will Return

The Leventopaido

Extended Play

A Matter of Earnestness

Divorce, Greek Style

Maiden's Cheek

Some tired boys

All Men Are the Same

A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman

The Man Who Returned from the Plates

Τα Τσακάλια

The Orgies Villa

A Funny Girl

Aliki the Dictator

Turning Point

The Countess of Fabrica

Θυμήσου τον Σεπτέμβρη

Αεροσυνοδός

Eisai to laheio mou

Strangers in the House

Love forever

Αθήνα-Νέα Υόρκη: Το μεγάλο κόλπο

Παππούδες εν δράσει
Δανεικός πατέρας

Clinical Case

Asteras Rachoulas

Βελούδο από μετάξι

Honorable Cuckolds

Γάμος με τα Όλα του

Ο χήρος, η χήρα και τα χειρότερα

Kai petaei kai... pidaei

Η ανταρσία των 10

Θυμήσου τον Σεπτέμβρη

Eisai to laheio mou
