Mini Bio
Evaggelia Moumouri was born on May 7, 1971, in Athens, Greece. She is a Greek actress with a career spanning more than three decades across theatre, television, and film.She studied Communication and Mass Media at Panteion University and, through a scholarship, attended Sociology courses at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. At the same time, she studied acting at the National Theatre Drama School, graduating with distinction in 1995. Her training also includes dance studies at the schools of Diana Theodoridou-Kazi and Maria Angelopoulou, as well as at the State School of Dance. She has also studied singing with Lucia Fratsea.Her theatre career includes collaborations with the National Theatre of Greece, the Thessalian Theatre, the Municipal Regional Theatre of Patras and the State Theatre of Northern Greece. She has appeared in productions ranging from classical to contemporary repertoire, including Aristophaniada, Skenovates, The Addams Family and Once Upon a Time in the Bosphorus.Moumouri made her television debut in the late 1990s, appearing in the series Aristotelis o Aristos and Ano Kato. She gained wider recognition through a number of popular Greek television productions, including To Kafe tis Charas, in which she played Doxoula, as well as Epta Thanatima Pethera, Machairomata, Eftychismenoi Mazi, Fila ton Vatracho sou and Kliniki Periptosi. Her later television credits include Agries Melisses, Gynaika Horis Onoma and Ilektra, among others.She has also built a film career with appearances in Greek productions including Safe Sex, Isovites, Success Story and ...Gia Panta, among others.In Sotiris Tsafoulias' Rififi, Moumouri plays Olga, one of the characters connecting the story of the major bank heist with a second, real-life human tragedy. Produced by Tanweer and COSMOTE TV, the six-episode series combines a crime-heist narrative with a dramatic story inspired by actual events.For her role in Rififi, Moumouri has spoken about a different kind of preparation from the one she had followed during much of her career. After Tsafoulias introduced her to the story, she researched the real family that provided the starting point for her character, looking for information and photographs that could help her understand the person she was portraying.Olga is based on the real-life story of Georgia Pitsiladis, the mother of young Panagiotis Vasilellis, whose tragic story forms the parallel dramatic narrative of the series.With more than thirty years of experience and a career that has moved comfortably between comedy and drama, Evaggelia Moumouri has established a distinctive presence in Greek acting. Rififi is among her most recent television projects and presents another, more dramatic side of her work as an actress.
