Mihalis Rakintzis is a Greek singer. He was born in Athens and studied Mechanical Engineering in the United Kingdom. From 1982 to 1985, he participated at a rock group called Scraptown. After three albums & a maxi-single Scraptown split up and Rakintzis started a solo career.
Oi Aparadektoi is a comedy television series broadcast by Mega Channel from September 1991 to January 1993. The series is considered one of the most successful on Greek television, representative of the daily life of Athenians in the early 1990s.
The cinema of Greece has a long and rich history. Though hampered at times by war or political instability, the Greek film industry dominates the domestic market and has experienced international success. Characteristics of Greek cinema include a dynamic plot, strong character development and erotic themes. Two Greek films, Missing (1982) and Eternity and a Day (1998), have won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Five Greek films have received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), is Greece's premier art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students.
Evridiki Theokleous, known mononymously as Evridiki, is a Greek Cypriot singer. She is best known in Europe for representing her home country, Cyprus, in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, 1994 and 2007 with the songs Teriazoume, Eimai Anthropos Ki Ego and Comme Ci, Comme Ça, respectively.
Haris Alexiou is a Greek singer whose career has spanned over 5 decades. She is one of the most popular singers in Greece. She has worked with important Greek songwriters and composers, has performed at top musical theatres all over the world, and has received several awards. She has recorded over thirty albums and has been featured on albums of other musicians. On 14th March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Alexiou as the first top-certified female artist in Greece in the phonographic era. She is the highest selling Greek female artist and third overall, behind George Dalaras and Yiannis Parios. Eight of her personal albums released between 1977 and 2003 have totaled 1.5 million sales, the only Greek female artist to do so.
The Kopanoi is a Greek comedy film, released in 1987, written and directed by Giorgos Konstadinou, starring several famous Greek actors, including Konstadinou himself, Markos Lezes, Yannis Vouros, Kostas Palios, and Giorgos Petrohilos. Today the movie has reached cult classic status for its memorable quotes and is regarded as the ultimate Greek comedy from the 1980s cinema period.
Yannis Smaragdis is a Greek film director, highly popular and award-winning. On October 21, 2024, he was elected as a regular member of the prestigious European Academy of Sciences and Arts. As a result, he became the first Greek director to be voted as an academician both within Greece and internationally.
Lambros Konstantaras was a Greek film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1940 and 1981 and is considered as one of the best Greek comedian actors of all time.
Dimitris Nikolaidis was a Greek actor.
Smaro Stefanidou was a Greek theatre, film, television and radio actress.
MasterChef Greece is a Greek competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. The show began airing on 3 October 2010 on Mega Channel and aired two seasons until 2013. From 2017, the show is airing on Star Channel. Until now eight seasons have aired on Star Channel.
Katerina Lehou is a Greek actress, who has been in many theatrical plays, films, and Greek television series.
Eftyhismenoi mazi or Eutihismenoi Mazi is a Greek comedy TV series that was aired in Mega Channel during the seasons 2007–08 and 2008–09. The screenplay was adapted by the Spanish series Los Serrano. The series stars Giannis Bezos, Katerina Lehou, Dimitris Mavropoulos and others. It was awarded as the best comedy series in "Prosopa" Greek Television Awards for the season 2008–09. It was one of the most successful series and according to television ratings, it was being watched by over 2.000.000 spectators every week.
Tis Ellados ta Paidia is a Greek comedy television series that was aired for two seasons by ANT1 TV. The series was created by Dimitris Venizelos and it stars Giannis Bezos, Chrysoula Diavati, Nikos Alexiou, Kostas Evripiotis, Yannis Savvidakis, Dimitris Fragioglou, Yannis Kapetanios and others.
Giannis Bezos is a Greek actor, theatre director, television director and singer. He considered one of the best Greek comedian actors of his generation, performing on TV and in the theatre.
Tasos Leivaditis was a Greek poet, short story writer and literary critic who belonged to the postwar generation that was deeply marked by the struggles and failures of the communist movement. His early and politically committed poetry travelled through the ‘fire and sword’ of history, transforming in the end into powerful and paradoxical prose-poems, and displaying an erotically charged form of ‘neo-romanticism’ mixed with ‘melancholic minimalism’ where “genuine humility offers obeisance to the magic of language.”
