Maro Kodou

Known for ActingBorn 1934-06-21Died 2026-07-15Athens, Greece

Maro Kontou (Greek: Μάρω Κοντού; born 21 June 1934 - 15 July 2026) was a Greek actress and politician. She performed in more than sixty films since 1954. Maro Kontou's first film appearance was just after she had started at the National Theater, with a silent role in the Finos Film film "Happy Beginning" (1954) by Dinos Dimopoulos. Roles in films by other producers followed ("The Man on the Train", "Crime in Kolonaki", "Crime Behind the Scenes") before making her debut with a leading role in the Finos Film film "The Yellow Gloves" (1960) as the wife of the jealous Nikos Stavridis. She returned to Finos Film in 1963, starring alongside Dinos Iliopoulos in the film "My Friend Lefterakis". She participated in over 50 film productions, including George Tzavellas' film "Antigone" (1961) as Ismene, as well as the timeless film (also by Tzavellas) "A Woman Afraid of Man" (Damaskinos-Michailidis, 1965), where together with George Konstantinou they played the Kokovikos couple, one of the most famous couples in Greek cinema. Maro Kontou's last collaboration with Finos Film was in the unforgettable "An Italian Woman from the Kulypseli" (1968) in the central role alongside Alekos Alexandrakis. The 13 films in which she co-starred with Lambros Konstantaras ("The Old Man", "The Squirrel Who Became a Lamb", "Too Bad for Your Boy", etc.) were also particularly successful. With the decline of commercial cinema from the mid-1970s, her choices became fewer and fewer. Perhaps the role in the film "The Big Cannon" (1981) with Thanasis Vengos stands out. It took a long period of absence from cinema for Maro Kontou to return in 2012 with a role in the film "If" by Christoforos Papakaliatis. During her career, her television appearances were limited ("Enochoi", "Treis sto Gyro", "To Pathos", etc.). In 2021, he was back on television screens with a featured role in the series "Land of Olives".Read more

Movies & web series

The Sold Man

As they should people

The third way

Antigone

Olive Land

Woe to the Young

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

Curtain Lecture

The Bluffer

Kai oi tesseris itan yperohes

A script is our life

The Three Liars

The Strongman Who Became a Lamb

Μπροστά στην αγχόνη

The Greedy

At Hell's Door

The Grouch

Murder Backstage

The Big Cannon

The Deeds of Jealousy

The yellow gloves

Μια Απίθανη Γιαγιά

What If...

Captain Fandis Bastounis

Gang of Lovers

An Italian girl from Kypseli

The Bald Student

Gerontokoros

My Dimitri... My Dimitri

The barker

Three Ladies and me

My friend, Lefterakis

Wedding like... Greek

Crime in Kolonaki

Horafa family

The Windbag

A Crazy Party Animal

The Woman Driver

What a Waste!

The Man on the Train

Gigolos

A Pitiful Don Juan

Oh, If I Only Were a Man

Seven Years of Marriage

I have you behind me, Satan

The wildcard Labroukos

Yie mou... Yie mou...

Taste from Greece