Martha Vourtsi is one of the most recognizable Greek actors. Not so much for her important theatrical path, but with the footprint she left in the cinema throughout the 1960s, as the "queen" of Melo films. The nickname Martha Clapas, who had been stuck to her, in no way teased her and considered it a title.
Martha Vourtsi was born in Athens on October 12, 1937 and was the daughter of the musician and composer of literary music Michalis Vourtsi (1908-1983). At six she started learning piano, but at 16 she decided to become an actress, dazzled by the theatrical performances in the basement of Charles Koun.
She studied at the Drama School of the Art Theater and made her debut in the theater, as a student of the Kun School, with Aristophanes' "Pluto" and the "Court of Miracles" by Jacob Campanellis. Her first professional appearance was in 1958 with "Free Theater", a corporate troupe with Kostas Kazakos and Leonidas Trivizas, where she played Locader in Goldoni's homonymous comedy.
He played with great success all kinds of theater, from inspection to ancient tragedy in Epidaurus, from classical theater to contemporary Greek work, from drama to comedy and from musical to ethnography, from Lorca to Euripides, from Sophocles to Sophocles, Panteli Horn's Fidanaki, "A Homer" by Peter Bia, "Eight Women Accused" by Robert Tomas, "Guard in the Rhine" by Lilian Helman, "von Dimitrakis" by Dimitris Psathas, "Annie", "Annie" Marturano 'by Eduardo de Filipou. One of her most important performances was Ekavi's role in Euripides' Trojans presented in 2001 at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus, directed by Antonis Antipas and music by Eleni Karaindrou.
In the cinema she first appeared in 1959 with the comedy "The Magoufis" and stood out for her comic talent as a servant in Alekos Sakellariou's "Yellow Gloves" (1960) and as a militant lawyer in "Hard man" by Yiannis Dalianidis (1961). Both of these films were produced by Finos Film. Then her career took another way and the honey films reached the top of popularity, and at some point around 1966, she made her own production company, Martha Film. In 1968 he returned to Nikos Foskol in 1968 with Nikos Foskol's dramatic film "I die every morning".
Martha Vourtsi also has an excellent voice, and this helped her to perform in the years of cinema songs by Mimis Plessas, Apostolos Kaldara, Vassilis Tsitsanis and George Zambetta. Her duets mainly with Nikos Xanthopoulos wrote history in the neighborhood cinema.
Her appearances on television were limited. The role of Panagiotis Petrochilos stood out in the comic series of the Mega "apartment building" (2008-2011), where she once again revealed her comic side.
In her personal life, she was married to a first marriage with actress Costas Pitsio and second from 1970 to his death with lyricist Xenophon Fileris.
Magoufis (1959) Filmography for the love of an orphan (1960) cravings in the crushes (1960) The Yellow Gloves (1960) The Sunday's (1960) love and storm (1961) The Hard man (1961) at night (1962) (1962) (1962) Love (1962) The Pithari (1962) What the Night (1963) hides for a little affection (1963) hearts in the storm (1963) I tired to acquire you (1963) midnight at Villa Nelli (1963) Cross (1963) Vitamins (1964) The Modistroula (1964) The East (1964) Your own fate dragged me (1964) Every bastard and tear (1964) The Paradise and Foucaras (1964) My Tears are hot (1964) I was painted (1965) with pain and tears (1965) my sweetness (1965) Betrayed (1965) The Mother's Amulet (1965) I want to live in the sun (1966) now that I leave life (1966) Curse is the division (1967) (1967) Cloudy horizons (1968) foreign hands are Bitter (1968) Life rag (1969) I dying every dawn (1969) Martha The Woman of Pain (1970) A Life without Love (1970) in the Storm of Great Love (1972) A scenario is our life (1985)
Source: San Simera
