Vera Krouska
Date of birth: 1949-01-01
Place of birth: Athens, Greece
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Βέρα Κρούσκα, Βερα Κρουσκα
Biography
Varvara (Vera) Krouska (Athens, 1947) is a Greek actress. She began her career as a dancer in Fotis Metaxopoulos' ballet, and began appearing in films in small supporting roles in the early 1960s. Some of her most important roles are in the films: I Blame My Body (1969), Saint Nektarios (1969), The Last of the Comitatzes (1970), The Last of Roupel (1971) and Give Me Your Hands (1971). Vera Krouska, originally from Sparta, was born in Athens and raised in Agios Loukas in Patisia. At the age of 15, she received permission from the then "Exceptional Talents" committee to study at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory of Music, while at the same time she began taking classical and modern dance lessons with teachers Sonia Morianova, Miriam Swazi and Kay Holden. She began her professional career initially as a dancer while also making her film debut with a small role in the film Taxi Driver (1962). She got her first leading role in 1967 with the film Love in Lesbos by producer James Parris, with whom Kruska signed a four-year collaboration contract. Her first appearance in the theater was in 1968 with the play "Forty Carats" alongside Elli Lampeti. She also took part as the leading actress in the plays: "The Cactus Flower" with the Elli Lampetis troupe and "Tavarits", "Picnic", "Oscar", with the Kostas Mousouris troupe. This was followed by her collaboration with the National Theatre and the plays "The Imaginary Patient" (1991), "The Criminals" (1992), "The Merchant of Venice" (1995), "Weighing in Anchors" (1997) and "Hamlet" (2003).
Movie Credits
Death Steps in the Dark
1977-02-17
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporte
My Best Friend
2001-03-02
My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their liv
Someone like It Cold...
1963-01-10
Lakis (Dinos Iliopoulos) has to make sure that his three sisters are married before he can marry his
To Be or Not To Be
1966-08-14
After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's wife wh
The Swamp
1973-09-24
Lena, Alexis and Manolis are ready to run with the money of a bogus company they had founded, when L
The Girl with Golden Hair
1978-10-04
Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of m
An Uncompromising Man
1979-01-01
A medical student (Pavlos Sidiropoulos) delays his studies to become a singer in this story of a man
28th October, 5:30
1971-02-03
After the Albanian war, the Kyriakos Platanias xanagyrnaei in the village, his little white, but wit
NO
1969-10-27
In 1940, during the outbreak of Greek-Italian war, Dimitris Nicolaou goes to fight as lieutenant in
Assignment Skybolt
1968-04-14
An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connecte
Δώστε τα χέρια
1971-03-01
The last of the Komitadjis
1970-02-07
In eastern Macedonia, the Bulgarians receive from the Germans the conquered Greek lands. Bulgarian M
Taxi Driver
1962-01-01
Thanasis is a good-looking taxi driver whose girlfriend is pushing him to marry. When an uncle from
The Liar
1963-04-13
Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in th
On the Border of Betrayal
1968-09-17
A secret agent of the Soviets who works at Ka-Ge-Be, Georgi Dimitrijevic, comes to Greece in order t
The Greedy
1967-01-01
The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father
And once again, toward glory he strives
1980-10-03
A television reporter's investigation into the life of a popular idol, singer Demis Flerianos, becom
The Bleeding Statues
1982-10-07
A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatenin
Los heroes del patibulo
1971-03-06
Spring 1941. A group of soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Alexis Komninou, protects the borde
Saint Nektarios
1969-01-01
A dancer, Vera, is married to a nuclear scientist, Tasos. She suffers from multiple sclerosis and is
Thymisou, agapi mou...
1969-01-01
Elsa and her husband Alkis vacation with their friend Vera in Nafplio, where Elsa's former love, Mar
I Blame My Body
1968-01-01
An American woman is robbed in Greece. A policeman pretending to be her suitor investigates among he