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Ellie Lambeti

Date of birth (location)

  13 April 1926, in Villia Attikis, Greece

Date of death (details)

  3 September 1983, at New York, New York, USA. (throat cancer)

Brief biography

She studied theatre at Marika Kotopouli's drama school. She worked with Karolos Koun Art Theatre. She played at "Blood Wedding" (Lorca) and "The glass Menagerie" (Tennessee Williams)in the late fourties. She also worked with Mrs Katerina (famous Greek actress at that time) and with Kostas Moussouris group in the early fifties. In the mid fifties she created a group with two Greek actors, Takis Horn and Takis Pappas. In the sixties she gave unforgettable perfomances with her own group. One of these performances was "A streetcar named desire" where she played Blanche du Bois. In 1967 she suffered the onset of Cancer. Although she was seriously ill, she continued to appear on stage until 1982 (one year before her death). Her last appearence was as Sarah in a play which is widely known from the movie "Children of a lesser God". At that time she no voice at all, the cancer having deprived her of it.