Katerina Gogou
Date of birth: 1940-06-01
Place of birth: Athens, Greece
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Κατερίνα Γώγου, Κατερινα Γωγου, Αικατερίνα Γώγου, Αικατερίνη Γώγου
Biography
Katerina Gogou (Greek: Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greek poet, author and actress. She was born in 1940 during World War II and the Axis occupation of Greece, for which she did not spend a pleasant childhood. She had a strict father with whom she lived during her childhood. Afterwards, in her teenage years, she lived with her mother. From the age of 5 years she started acting in children's plays. Professionally she debuted in theater with Dinos Iliopoulos' theater company in the play Ο Κύριος πέντε τοις εκατό (Mr. five percent) in 1961. She made her first cinematographic appearance in the film Ο άλλος (The other one / The other person). Most of the films she participated in were Finos Film productions. She became more widely known for roles of cheerful and carefree women like in the movies Το ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισο (The wood came out of paradise) and Μια τρελή τρελή οικογένεια (A crazy crazy family). She has received the award for best actress in a lead role in Thessaloniki International Film Festival for the film Το βαρύ πεπόνι (The heavy melon - this phrase in Greek is an idiom referring to someone who tries to appear as a macho man), directed by Pavlos Tasios. As a poet she was known for her revolutionary and aggressive writing. She was an anarchist and her political identity was often reflected in her poems, such as "Υπερασπίζομαι την Αναρχία" (I support/defend Anarchy) or "Εμένα οι φίλοι μου είναι μαύρα πουλιά" (My friends are black birds). She also wrote some books with one of them, Τρία κλικ αριστερά (Three Clicks Left), being translated into English in 1983 by Jack Hirschman and published by Night Horn Books in San Francisco and also into Turkish in 2018 by Turkish author Mahir Ergun and published by Belge International Publishing House in Istanbul. Katerina Gogou was participating actively in the anarchist movement, especially in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens. She supported anarchist prisoners and participated in movements for the liberation of political prisoners. She had been arrested several times, one of which as a suspect for the murder of two police officers by the Revolutionary Organization 17 Noemvri, for which she was declared innocent. She had a bad relationship with the police, having filed a complaint after being attacked by police officers during a protest. She was married to film director Pavlos Tassios, with whom she had a daughter.Later in her life she got addicted to alcohol and drugs. She was found dead in her apartment in October 1993 due to a drug overdose.
Movie Credits
Katerina Gogou: For the Restoration of Blackness
2013-03-07
The biography of poet and actress Katerina Gogou. In the film, Boskoitis combines exclusively in bla
I'm a man and... I'll have fun!
1960-01-01
A young girl, in an attempt to avoid the aspirations of her bosses, gets a job disguised as a man.
The Liar
1963-04-13
Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in th
Marriage Lads
1963-11-11
Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they
Tired life
1964-09-10
Yes, But...
1972-11-06
A young man pushed beyond his endurance remembers his life on the roof of a tall building. He's ther
What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
1971-09-23
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Tha
Τα κοθώνια του θρανίου
1962-01-01
And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
1965-06-28
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient pers
Parangelia!
1980-10-05
The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespect
Great Brides, Gullible Grooms
1972-01-01
Gina, daughter of businessman Archelaou, runs away from home to not marry the groom she chose her fa
The Antisocial
1977-06-21
A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of
Nomos 4000
1962-05-05
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a cl
South Wind
1984-10-04
A group of intellectuals holidaying together at an isolated beach become mentally unhinged by the pr
A woman's sacrifice
1969-08-10
A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovel
Restless youth
1963-05-25
Maiden's Cheek
1959-11-16
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daugh
Miss Manager
1964-12-18
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical of
A Crazy Crazy Family
1965-10-25
Mika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her littl
1922
1978-04-01
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through
The Right-Minded Madman
1968-10-21
A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the me
The child of the square
1961-01-01
An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle
Wedding like... Greek
1964-12-07
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love dur
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
1965-01-01
The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. Whe
Koutroulis` Wedding
1962-01-01
A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father
The Barber's Beauty
1969-03-31
A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee.
Dracula and Company
1959-01-01
Comedy where Athanassios inherits a castle supposedly inhabited by Count Dracula, and decides to set
Poverty
1965-01-01
Kaiti's father decides to end Nikos' family and evicts them. Nikos and his mother rent a room in Ann
Women want beat
1962-01-01
Crazy Girls Awesome Boys
1970-01-01
Two detergent entrepreneurs decide to marry their children, each believing that their rival holds th
Love forever
1970-03-16
A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a w
Wounded youth
1969-01-01
A girl from the countryside, Marina (Katerina Gogou), comes to Athens to work in the shop of a famil
Τα παληόπαιδα
1963-01-01