Olga Tournaki

Olga Tournaki (1933, Addis Ababa – March 15, 2022, Athens) was a Greek actress of television and theater.

Olga Tournaki was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1933. She studied at the Gymnastics Academy of the University of Athens and then started medical studies at the same university, which she did not complete, while also attending the Athens Conservatory with Menelaos Pallantios as her teacher. She was a graduate of the National Theater Drama School.

Until 1958, she participated as a member of the Chorus in performances of ancient drama (Hecuba, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia in Aulis, etc.), and in 1959, she was promoted to the leading Chorus (Orestes, The Frogs, etc.). From 1968, she began playing roles (Medea, Eurydice, etc.), and from 1971, she performed leading roles (Electra, Hecuba, Andromache, etc.).

Her career also extended to contemporary international and Greek drama. Her last performance was in the play “Dogville” at the National Theater in 2004.

From 1960 to 2001, she appeared in eleven films (The Expatriates, On the Road to God, Innocent or Guilty, 1922, etc.).

From 1971 to 2006, she appeared in sixteen television series (Astrofeggia, Etymigoria, The Cry of the Wolves, The Shine, Good Morning Life, The Ones and the Others, Lifting, Fear, Like a Dream, Lumen, etc.). From 1978 to 1995, she participated in 22 television theatrical productions, broadcast on ERT, NET, and ANT1 (Getting Married, Smoky Places, Blood Wedding, King Richard III, Oedipus at Colonus, The House of Bernarda Alba, etc.).

She participated in recordings of works by Greek composers for the discography of the Greek Week of Contemporary Music. She collaborated with the National Lyric Stage during the artistic period of 1977-1978, appearing as a narrator in the ballet “Genesis,” presented at the Herodes Atticus in 1978.

Olga Tournaki passed away on March 15, 2022, at the age of 89.

Source: Wikipedia