Sofia Olympiou

Sofia Olympiou

Acting · Born 1935-03-23 · Athens, Greece

Sofia Olympiou (Sofia-Glykeria Chalkiopoulou, 23 March 1935 – 25 September 2017) was a Greek television, theatre and film actress. Sofia Olympiou came from an artistic family. Her maiden name was Sofia-Glykeria Chalkiopoulou. Her father was the actor Yiannis Chalkiopoulos and her mother was the actress Eleni Lalaouni. On her father's side, her grandfather Nikos Chalkiopoulos was an actor and her grandmother was the also actress Sofia Chalkiopoulou. On her mother's side, only her grandmother was an actress, Olympia Lalaouni. Her first husband was George Olympiou, while her second husband was Christoforos Kazantzidis. She had a long career in the theater scene, almost 41 years of presence o...

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