Anna Fonsou
Date of birth: 1939-07-06
Place of birth: Kesariani, Greece
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Άννα Φόνσου, Αννα Φονσου
Biography
Anna Fonsou (Greek: Άννα Φόνσου; born July 6, 1939) is a Greek actress and social activist. Anna Fonsou was born in 1939 in Kaisariani in Greece and grew up in Tinos. She studied at the drama school of Dimitris Rondiris. She studied dance with Rallou Manou and singing with Popi Petrioli. Fonsou made her first theater appearance in 1956 with the troupe of Katerina Andreadi and her first film appearance in 1957 in the movie Το παιδί του δρόμου (The Child of the Street). In 1965, she founded Proskinio together with Alexis Solomos and Aimilios Hourmouzis. In cinema, she played in dozens of films, almost exclusively leading roles, in both dramas and comedies alongside famous comedians such as Thanasis Veggos with whom she co-starred in several films. In the early 1970s, she also did a series of erotic films, mainly directed by Omiros Efstratiadis, which are now considered cult. On television she participated in various series (The Two Orphans, The Ragpickers, etc.) and in theatrical performances on the show The Theater of Monday. She starred at the Lyric Stage in the operetta The Apaches of Athens, and since 2001, she has been part of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. In the 1996 parliamentary elections and the 2000 elections, she was a candidate with the KKE, and in the 2009 and 2012 elections she was a candidate with the PASOK in Athens A. In 1997 she founded charitable foundation "The Actor's House" (Greek: Το σπίτι του Ηθοποιού) to provide housing for impoverished actors, of which she is a president. She produces theatrical performances, the proceeds of which are also donated to "The Actor's House". From 1998 to 2000, she served as president of the Greek Actors Union. In 2016 she was awarded the Nikolaos Karolos prize by the Academy of Athens for her social work related to "The Actor's House". She was married to theater entrepreneur and civil engineer Kostas Paltoglou, architect Nikos Sofianos, and in 1985 to singer-songwriter and composer Takis Bougas until they divorced in 1993.
Movie Credits
Υποψήφιοι βουλευτές και βουλευτίνες
1980-01-01
Ο κλοιός
1987-10-01
Πικρή ζωή
1965-01-01
The Two Faces of Love
1972-01-11
Eleana is a prostitute who appears to have been abused when she was younger. During her daily encoun
Lysistrata
1972-09-25
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting t
Provocation
1971-02-08
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was hi
10 Days in Paris
1962-06-05
Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the strangle
Holidays in Vietnam
1971-02-22
Returning from a 3 year captivity in Vietnam, a kind chemist finds his wife married to his boss who
The Clever Bird
1961-01-01
A poor but hardworking and proud young woman falls in love with her boss and manages to save him fro
The Countess of Fabrica
1969-01-01
A beautiful young woman is arrested by a wonderful policeman, due to her effort to steal letters fro
The Playful Girl
1967-01-01
The Mikes family is wealthy son is in love with a poor girl, Katy. The Mikes afraid that his father
The Child of the Street
1957-01-01
A girl, Vassula, learns shortly before marrying her lover, Richard, that the alleged father is actua
Stratis Has Strayed
1969-01-01
Poor and unappreciated writer besieged by producer of cinema to give consent for turning a book into
A Pitiful Don Juan
1960-01-01
A wealthy man is responsible for his friend’s daughter, who has come to Athens to study. The girl me
Sharp as a Needle
1961-01-01
Tonis and Rena are loved, but their uncles have objections, as they are deadly competitors in the fi
Xamou
2017-06-15
“Xa mou” means “to do whatever I feel like” in the Cretan idiom. Johnny, the film’s main character,
Love on a Horse
1973-12-22
A son and his stepmother, without noticing their father/husband peeping at them, make love on a hors
The Trial of an Innocent
1969-11-04
At the beginning of his trial, the accused Vassilis Doranis takes account of the events that brought
Anger
1962-10-09
With hatred burning inside her black heart, a mean-spirited woman wants to have nothing to do with h
Who Thanasis!
1969-01-01
A kindhearted owner of a shop falls in love with the girl he hires and, eventually, he finds out who
All Men Are the Same
1966-08-14
Polyxeni becomes enraged when she finds her husband flirting with their maid. After dismissing the g
Thirst for Life
1964-01-01
Katerina is a spoiled rich woman who spends her time playing with the men who surround her. Only her
Unmarried Groom
1967-07-19
A kind-hearted teacher saves a girl from suicide and takes her into his home. However, he is newly m
The Incredible
1970-01-01
Thomas, the owner of an electrical appliances store, is having business problems due to his short-fu
King of Liars
1971-01-11
Achilleas, who works together with his friend Paminos at Prokopis’ gas station, tries, via correspon
Fanouris and His Kin
1957-12-02
A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful e
Spend the first of the month
1965-01-01
A debt collector persistently pursues a spendthrift young man who owes a lot of money to the company
Waiting Room
2018-05-06
Five people wake up in an abandoned warehouse. None of them has any recollection of memory of who th
That Something... Else!
1963-02-01
An unorganized and spoiled guy, Telis Partalis, who is only cut off for his amusement, is squanderin
The Last Temptation
1964-06-24
A highly respected surgeon and University Professor becomes infatuated with a pretty young acrobat h
The Tomboy
1959-01-01
Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her b
Image of Love
1972-12-21
Under the scorching sun of the rugged Greek countryside, the young star-crossed lovers, Aggelos and
Ballad of the Lost Moonlight
2002-01-01
One night, a woman and a man in a house, while outside the city lives and entertains.
Each With Their Own Madness...
1980-01-01
Three stories everyday madness. A retired headmaster angers me when I see the marks of his granddaug
Η Επιστροφή της Μήδειας
1968-09-19
The stranger of that night
1972-01-01
Aris, a race car driver, meets a guy who looks strikingly similar to him. With obvious curiosity, he
Οι ένοχοι
1966-11-26
Αύριο θα ξέρουμε
1997-11-20
Proud eagles
1971-01-01
The love affair between a squadron leader and a young woman who is involved with agents and saboteur
Athens after midnight
1968-01-01
The Boy that I Love
1960-05-11
Liza, a cheeky and mischievous young girl who works in a bookstore, is a fanatical admirer of a grea
The Nets of Shame
1965-01-01
The poor fishermen of a small village in the Evros region are trying to set up a cooperative so that
Her Private Life
1971-03-04
A corpse is found at Anna's home, and she must explain the criminal investigator how she spent the n
An All-Weather Man
2004-12-03
An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, tes