Yiolanta Balaoura
Acting
Biography
Yolanda Balaoura (Γιολάντα Μπαλαούρα) is a Greek actress. She was born and raised in Karpenisi. She studied at the Theodosiadis Drama School in Athens. She began her career as an actress in 1983 by participating in the film comedy Roda, hanto kai kopana No2 playing a student. In 1985, she made her television debut in the comedy series by Yannis Dalianidis Ta lioantarakia tou kyr-Ilias, having one of the leading roles as Iro. This was followed by participation in nine video films from 1985 to 1989. During the same period, she participated in the cinema in the films Telecannibaloi and Gamos sto perithrio. In 1990, she played in the television series The Rebirth of a Nation in the role of Maria. In 1992, she played in the Mega Channel period series The Guards of Achaias, while in the 1992-1994 season she played Joy Papagiannis in the daily series of the same channel Parallel Roads. This was followed by special television appearances in the series The Unacceptable, High Rock, The Widow and the Worst, Mother is Only One and Magic Night. In the 1994-1995 season she took part in the series Cherchez la femme, followed by the comedy series Gin and Cherry the following season. In the 1997-1998 season she played alongside Katiana Balanika and Zacharias Rocha in the comedy series The Borrower on ANT1. In 2004, she participated in the comedy series My Sweetest Lie. In the 2004-2005 season, she took part in four television series. On the one hand, she was part of the cast of the series Alonzo tholeia and Xechasé me, while she made guest appearances in the series Erastis Ditykon Proastion and Kemis de lei s' agapo. One of her best-known television roles was that of Elpida Matsouka in the Mega Channel comedy series The Apartment Building. She joined the cast of the series in December 2008 and left shortly before the end of the second season in 2010. In 2010, she took part in the comedy Τίτεια πίσευτις. From 2011 to 2012, she made special appearances in the comedy series Me lei Vangelis. On television, he has appeared in the series The Lions of Mr. Elias, Door Frames, The Rebirth of a Nation, Honorable Gentlemen, Wanted Serial, The Mousama Family, The Guards of Achaia, Parallel Streets, The Unacceptables, High Rock, The Widow, the Widow and the Worst, There Is Only One Mother, Cherchez la femme, Magic Night, Gin and Cherry, They and I, Sofia Orthi, Borrowed Father, Men Don't Exist Anymore, The Sign of Love, Couples, My Sweetest Lie, Lover of the Western Suburbs, Colon, Forget Me, Nobody Says I Love You, Come on, Let's Make Love, Seven Deadly Mother-in-Laws, Daddy's Girls, The Apartment Building, My Name Is Vangelis, Our Best Years, Don't Start the Murmur, Mom's Cake, Three Miles, affection. The Shipwreck, Revenge Games From 2011 until today he has been collaborating as an actor and collaborator with the State Theatre of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki, playing in various theatrical performances/
Known For
The youngest of the Antonopoulou family, the eight-year-old Angelos and storyteller, will travel with us in the late 60's, when television was slowly entering the family living rooms, in "Our Best Years".
Remember When
The sea has the power to unite, but also the cruelty to separate people forever. A country like Greece, with the sea and boat trips written in its DNA from ancient times to today.
To Navagio
"Storgi" is the name of SKAI's social drama that deals with abuse, the trauma that hides in childhood and often defines adulthood and our ability to love ourselves and others. At a time when anger has become a movement and domestic violence is on the rise, we need to better understand the root cause of the problem of violence but also to destigmatize psychotherapy which is not a taboo but a path that can lead us to self-awareness, redemption and balance.
Storgi
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Paralliloi dromoi
The adventures of a vulture, an exquisite, handsome and particularly charming man who loves and is loved too much by women.
They and I
A woman finds the strength to escape her past for a new beginning. Two brothers reveil the gap that separates them. A quiet Aegean island hides a volcano of guilty secrets that is ready to erupt! Can a dark past lead to a bright future?
Tria Milia
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Paihnidia Ekdikisis
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Με Λένε Βαγγέλη
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Ζευγάρια
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Τα Κορίτσια του Μπαμπά
Life in Pezoula and Vrysoula flowed harmoniously. Of course, it helped that there was a wall between the two villages, built from one end to the other, so that no one interfered in the other's business. But when Kallikrates comes to unite the two villages, everything is turned upside down! A prominent journalist dies, the biological treatment plant divides opinion, the minister is bribed, the starters come and go, the SDOE gets involved, the night owls are disturbed, individual and local interests get tangled up, while surprises and hilarious situations follow one after another...
Larisa Confidential
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Oi andres den yparhoun pia
It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.
Poisonous Women
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Η Αναγέννηση Ενός Έθνους
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Δανεικός πατέρας
An 80-year-old widower, Mr. Elias, goes to his village (Perithorio, where he had been president of the community for twenty-four consecutive years) to vote in the municipal elections. There he meets his childhood sweetheart (Fotini, also a widow). Their youthful engagement had been broken off due to a misunderstanding, but now their love is rekindled and they are considering marriage, despite the opposition of Fotini's daughter. When one day the village madman announces their rendezvous, the elderly couple, panicked, take the bus and flee to Drama. There they spend carefree, tender moments, but Mr. Elias' son, Aristides, finds them and forces them to return. However, the big decision has already been made, and when Mr. Elias' pension for former mayors and community presidents comes through, nothing can stop the couple anymore. Fotini comes to Athens and, together with Elias, they visit her grandson.
Gamos sto Perithorio
A brilliant investigative journalist, Alekos Varnesis, desperately searches for the truth behind a scandal that is rocking Greek society concerning the trade in human organs. In his attempt to track down the mastermind behind the ring, he encounters unpredictable comical situations, similar to those we experience in our everyday lives. When he manages to reach the mastermind, known as "The Big One," he discovers that he too has his own family problems. His twelve-year-old son is an alcoholic and madly in love with his stepmother. All this creates a lot of confusion...
Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas
The events of this film, spanning from the very first moments after the Occupation until the first years of the 1980s. In those years, which are crucial for Greek History, the adventurous path of a poor family is illustrated, that’s slowly going to end up filthy rich. The members of the aforesaid family found out the hard way, that money cannot buy happiness.
Luger
A young, inexperienced, and deeply in love man takes everything seriously, unlike his friend, for whom everything is just a fleeting game.
Protari mou... as prosehes
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