Evelina Papoulia's Curriculum Vitae


Evelina's brief bio accounting career milestones

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Evelina's Way

Evelina Papoulia is one of the most popular leading actresses in Greece with award-winning performances and collaborations with renowned artists. She is a complete artist who devotes herself to the combination of drama, dance, and music while engaging audiences with her energy, passion, and excellence.



Evelina Papoulia was born in Athens. After watching Coppélia on television at age 6, Evelina decides that she will become a ballerina. Promptly she begins ballet lessons with an extraordinarily high level of commitment and passion for that age. Her disciplined dedication to training leads her to spend her summers in London attending summer courses in the Royal Academy of Dance to perfect her technique. Her childhood dreams of becoming a principal dancer seem to come true when immediately upon her graduation from the Anna Petrova Professional Dance School and R.A.D, the Greek National Opera offers her a position as a soloist in their company. However, Evelina declines the offer and moves to New York City to study in the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and at the same time she becomes a member of the Omega Dance Company.

While in New York City, a nagging knee injury forces her to contemplate switching careers into musical theater, she studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute with acclaimed teachers like George Loros, whom Evelina credits as one of her mentors, and in the process falls in love with acting. She begins her career with roles in productions like West Side Story at The Rockwell, Marat / Sade and The Maids at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Circle of My Life at the Marilyn Monroe Theater and the short film Something is Cooking.

Not being able to renew a work permit, she is forced to return to Greece. She auditions for Aliki Vougiouklaki's production of My Fair Lady and she lands a small part. From then on her career grows exponentially with roles in both theater and television productions until she is catapulted into fame when offered the lead role in the television series Two Strangers, a romantic comedy which was to become one of the most successful tv productions ever with back to back reruns ever since the show's completion. Marina Kountouratou, the character she portrays in the series, offers her the opportunity to showcase her triple threat talents and naturally, from then on, becomes a favorite choice to star in musical productions.

Not wanting to be typecast, Evelina steers clear of roles similar to the one that made her famous and continues her career starring in dramas both in theater and television. She also stars in her first movie playing the seductive Catherine and she is awarded with a Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival. Of course, musicals are always part of her repertory with Sally Bowles in Cabaret being one of her favorite portrayals. And in 2005 she raises the bar when she takes up the challenge of directing the rock musical Hedwig and The Angry Inch and starring as the title role, making her only the third actress in the world at the time to have played this amazing character.

Despite her busy schedule, she finds time to teach in institutions like the Athens Conservatory, mostly dance, musical theater and improvization, and also serve as the Artistic Director of the Anna Petrova Professional Dance School. In her classes, Evelina has developed a new dance technique which she calls Primal Dance because it promotes natural bodily expression through the externalization of primordial movement. And of course, being the dancer that she is, Evelina also becomes the obvious choice for the judge's seat in the first two seasons of So You Think You Can Dance in Greece.

Parallel to her acting career, she launches the rock group Zand The Band and as their lead singer, they perform around the country as well as collaborating with BLE, a popular band in Greece. Their first work though is a musical, aptly named, MuzicAll which Evelina writes, directs and choreographs. The show is met with great enthusiasm by audiences which prompts repeat performances the following season in a bigger venue. The group also composed all the original music for her next directorial effort, a play co-written by Mary Kaldara and herself. The Thirst largely deals with the pitfalls of fame and how it can entrap people in an astoundingly visual production choreographed by Evelina.

Throughout the years, no matter how successful her performances are, like the bewitching Loa, a woman scorned, in the rock opera Demons, the award-winning Victoria Grand in Victor/Victoria or the critically acclaimed Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons, to name just a few of her latest, Evelina never rests on her laurels. She always looks forward to the next challenge and how she can set the bar even higher. And no matter how her story will end someday, people will always say, she did it her way.




2016 - 2017
Dangerous Liaisons
Isabelle de Merteuil, lead
Alma Theater

2016
Victor/Victoria
Victoria Grand, lead
Pantheon Theater

2014 - 2015
Blood Wedding
Mother, lead
Apothiki Theater

2014 Summer
Aristophanes' The Frogs
The Priestess, lead
Epidaurus Theater and Tour

2013 - 2014
Welcome Detective Poirot
Amanda, lead
Car Museum

2013
Demons
Loa / The Witch, lead
Pallas Theater

2013
Agami Thite at Goudi
Multiple, lead
Badminton Theater

2012
The Thirst
The Woman, lead
National Theater of N Greece

2011 - 2012
Agami Thite in the Public Sector
Multiple, lead
National Theater of N Greece

2011
Aftos O Alitis O Coelho
Anna, lead
Athina Theater

2011
MuzicAll
Ex-Hell Angel, lead
Badminton Theater

2010 - 2011
Aftos O Alitis O Coelho
Anna, lead
Tour

2009 - 2010
MuzicAll
Ex-Hell Angel, lead
Dasein and Tour

2009
Joan of Arc
Joan, lead
Athens Music Center

2005 - 2006
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Hedwig, lead
Club 22

2004 - 2005
Trees Die Standing Tall
Isabel / Martha, lead
Veaki Theater

2003 - 2005
Cabaret
Sally Bowles, lead
Veaki Theater and Club 22

2002 - 2003
The Dinner Party
Mariette Levieux, lead
Veaki Theater

2002 Summer
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee, lead
Athineon Theater

2000 - 2001
Playing with Fire
Kerstin, lead
Neos Kosmos Theater

1999 - 2000
Wait Until Dark
Susy Hendrix, lead
Ilissia Theater

1999 Summer
Things We Do For Love
Nikki, lead
Lampeti Theater

1998 Summer
Fiddler on the Roof
Tzeitel, lead
Athineon Theater

1997 - 1998
Anchors Away
Multiple, lead
National Theater

1997 Summer
Fiddler on the Roof
Tzeitel, lead
Athineon Theater

1997
Loot
Fay McMahon, lead
Athina Theater

1996 Summer
Euripides' Helen
Chorus, featured
Epidaurus Theater and Tour

1995 - 1996
Ulyssinbad
Multiple, featured
Porta Theater

1995 Summer
West Side Story
Graziella, featured
Athineon Theater

1994 - 1995
Some Like it Hot
Olga, featured
Vempo Theater

1993 - 1994
My Fair Lady
Flower Girl / Maid, featured
Aliki Theater


2017
To Tatouaz
Alpha

2015
Dekati Entoli
Episode Alert
Alpha

2015
Dekati Entoli
Episode Kokkino
Alpha

2013
Brousko
ANT1

2012
To Amartima tis Mitros Mou
ANT1

2008
Alithini Erotes
Episode San Thirio Sto Klouvi
Alpha

2007
Pira Kokkina Yalia
Alpha

2006
Dekati Entoli
Episode I Orea Kimomeni
Alpha

2005
Dekati Entoli
Episode Se Vathia Nera
Alpha

2004
Dekati Entoli
Episode Horis Epistrofi
Alpha

2004
Dekati Entoli
Episode Ena Lepto Argotera
Alpha

2006
So You Think You Can Dance
Judge
Mega

2006
An M'Agapas
Alpha

2006
Safe Sex
Episode I Apagogi
Mega

2006
Entimotati Keratades
Episode O Voutirobebes Keratas
Alpha

2005
Kokkino Domatio
Episode Karma
Mega

2003
Shedon Pote
NET

2003
Ise Poli Alitis Telika
Mega

2002
Ekpedevontas ton Babi
ANT1

2002
Kokkinos Kiklos
Episode I Agapi Pethane
Alpha

2002
Kolpo Grosso
Alpha

2001
Nirvana
Alpha

2000
Kresento
Star

1997
Mega

1996
Asinithis Ipopti
Mega

1996
Scorpios
Episode Kiprinos
Mega

1995
Sophia... Orthi
ANT1

1995
Tolmires Istories
Episode O Maestros
ANT1

1995
I Dromi tis Polis
Episode Diplo Pehnidi
ANT1

1994
Tavros me Toxoti
ANT1

1994
O Petros kai Ta Koritsia Tou
Episode Pythagorio Theorema
Mega

1994
Anatomia Enos Englimatos
Episode O Epangelmatias
ANT1

1994
Anatomia Enos Englimatos
Episode I Triti Entoli
ANT1

1994
Tmima Ethon
Episode Plektani
ANT1

1993
I Kali... Pethera
ANT1

1993
I Ektelesi
ANT1


* Transliteration of titles according to IMDb rules


2009
Guilt
Director Vassilis Mazomenos

2007
Proti Fora Nonos
Director Olga Mallea

2006
Illustration
Director Dimitris Haritopoulos

2004
Nifes aka Brides
Director Pantelis Voulgaris

2001
Efapax
Director Nikos Zapatinas

2000
Enas ki Enas aka In Good Company
Director Nikos Zapatinas

1999
Safe Sex
Director Mihalis Reppas/Thanasis Papathanasiou


* Transliteration of titles according to IMDb rules


2013
Anna with Passion with Evelina Papoulia and Panayotis Petrakis, Anna Vissi Concert Tour

2012
Zand The Band at Shamone

2012
Zand The Band on Tour

2011 - 2012
Zand The Band and BLE at Love Casual Living


2012
Thirst
Director Evelina Papoulia

2010
Dance Night

2009
MuzicAll
Director Evelina Papoulia

2008
Blood Brothers
Director Costas Spiropoulos

2007
As Mini Metaxi Mas
Director Alexandros Rigas


2012
Thirst

2009
MuzicAll

2005 - 2006
Hedwig and The Angry Inch


2012
Thirst

2009
MuzicAll


2016
Actress in a Leading Role
Athinorama Theater Awards

2016
Best Actress
Queer Theater Awards

2012
Lifetime Achievement
Avlea Theater Awards

2001
Shooting Star Award by EFP
Berlin International Film Festival

2000
Favorite TV Series Actress
Ethnos Television Awards

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