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Elena Topalidou

Elena Topalidou

Acting

Biography

Elena Topalidou was born in Athens. She studied dance at the State School of Orchestral Art and piano at the National Conservatory of Athens. As a dancer she was a key member of the OKTANA dance theater from 1993 to 2005 and participated in all its productions. She also collaborated with Dimitris Papaioannou and the Ground Team, the National Theatre, the State Theater of Northern Greece, the Rootless root group, etc. As an actor, she collaborated with the National Theatre, KTHBE, the Athens Festival, the House of Letters and Arts, etc. directed by Michael Marmarinou, Nikos Karathanos, Lefteris Vogiatzis, Lydias Koniordou, Kostantin Bogomolov, Akylla Karazisi, etc. In the cinema, she participated in Greek short and feature films. In 1999, she was awarded the prize for the best female performance for the performance The Lady with the Camellias, choreographed by Kostantinos Rigos. In 2020, she won the first female performance award for the short film Bella by Thelgia Petrakis. In 2022, she received the first female performance award at the Iris Awards of the Cinema Academy for the film Magnetic Fields by George Gousis. She has been teaching classical ballet at the National Opera School since 2011.

Known For

Fonissa
6.4

It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.

Fonissa

2023Movie