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Maria Kitsou

Maria Kitsou

Acting

Biography

Maria Kitsou (August 5, 1979) is a Greek actress, a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre. In 2009, she starred in the television series Karyotakis, embodying the face of the poet Maria Polydouri. In 2012, she won the Melina Merkouri Award for her performance in "Orphans" by Dennis Kelly, directed by Vangelis Theodoropoulos, at the theater of Neos Kosmos. She was also nominated for the same award in 2008, for her performance in Maxim Gorky's "At the Bottom". In 2014, she won the 1st Prize for Best Female Performance at the 2nd All4fun Audience Theatrical Awards for her performance in the play "Armadale" directed by Constantinos Aspiotis. In 2016, she won the 1st Prize for Best Actress at the 4th All4fun Audience Theater Awards for her performance in the play "Miss Julia" directed by Lillys Melemé. She became particularly known to the general public for her participation in the drama series Wild Bees (2019-2022) which was shown on ANT1. In the series she plays one of the leading roles, Eleni Stamiri.

Known For

Agries Melisses
7.4

Every time a daughter was born, the father of Eleni, Asimina and Froso planted a poplar tree at the edge of their orchard to commemorate the arrival of the new child. As they grew and grew tall and slender, he boasted of them as his daughters. In the proudest poplar, however, Helen's poplar, a swarm of wild bees had already nested. "You will be happy, my daughter, and life will be as sweet as this honey. You'll see," her father used to tell her. But, the years passed and Eleni looked at the poplar and listened to the hum... "How do you know, father... How do you know that life has written only bitterness for my root".

Agries Melisses

2019
The witch
4.6

1817. Mani, Greece. Two rivals families decide to marry their children. After a while their grandchild is born and found dead in the river. Everyone blames Theofano, a girl, who is a witch.

The witch

2023
Karyotakis
8.0

The series describes the life of the poet Kostas Karyotakis. It follows his life from his teenage years and sheds light on unknown aspects of his artistic and professional life. A special place is occupied by the part about his relationship with the poet Maria Polydouri. Through the lives of the two protagonists, the politically and socially turbulent period of the 1910s and 1920s is projected.

Karyotakis

2009
Thou Shalt Not Kill
6.3

The main theme of the series is the way in which a person is led to murder while each story in the series combines elements of drama, social stories and thrillers. The duration of each episode is 45 minutes and is in the form of a psychograph. While the stories in the series are based on real events that have preoccupied public opinion, their dramatization has undergone some changes.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

2018
Call me mom
8.5

The heart chooses whom it calls its own child! Using the powerful and sensitive issue of child abuse as its vehicle, the series tells the gripping story of a woman who responds to the silent cries for help of an abused girl. At the same time, it focuses on the moving theme of mother-daughter relationships. Despite the weight of its subject matter, at the core of this compelling drama lies one central idea: love.

Call me mom

2025
Then and Now
N/A

A fictional series starring Elena Charalamboudi and Alexandros Tsouvelas in the leading roles, with the creative team of 5 MINUTE MUM behind the cameras. A series of standalone episodes about two couples, two eras, but one common denominator: human relationships. The beloved duo, through improvisation and caustic scripts, plays the two different couples, then and now. The episodes of the series are self-contained, and in each one we watch simple everyday stories, such as marriage, children, entertainment, buying a car, holidays, and everything related to family. THEN AND NOW has many comical and ethnographic elements, combining laughter with emotion and highlighting the differences and similarities between two eras through the lives of two couples.

Then and Now

2025
Ο 3ος Νόμος
5.0

Every action causes a reaction. Newton's 3rd law does not only explain the relationship between bodies and "momentum" in classical mechanics, but also human relationships and the "momentum" that characterizes them, in general. Relationships with others and with ourselves. The relationship between the present and the past. The relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. Family dramas, love affairs of loyalty and infidelity, serial killers, crimes of honor, passion, revenge, punishment, necessity.

Ο 3ος Νόμος

2010
The Last Homecoming
5.0

Summer at Cyprus seems at first like a gift for Alexandra (Maria Kitsou) and Orestes (Hristodoulos Martas), who travel from Athens to spend the season with Orestes' parents at their seaside residence. However, they soon become enveloped in the turbulence of local politics between Greeks and Turks after getting involved with a family production of a Euripides play.

The Last Homecoming

2008
I Magissa Flegomeni Kardia
N/A

Through the arch of time, a journey begins with a starting point in 1710... Mani lives under the rule of the Venetians. The Venetian governor of the area Silvio Esposito and his wife Renata live in the tower of the Lascarians, having won the respect and acceptance of the local community.

I Magissa Flegomeni Kardia

2024
Cosmic Candy
10.0

When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.

Cosmic Candy

2020
Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness
N/A

Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.

Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness

2020