Elena Topalidou

Elena Topalidou

Elena Topalidou was born in Athens. She studied dance at the State School of Orchestral Art and piano at the National Conservatory of Athens. As a dancer she was a key member of the OKTANA dance theater from 1993 to 2005 and participated in all its productions. She also collaborated with Dimitris Papaioannou and the Ground Team, the National Theatre, the State Theater of Northern Greece, the Rootless root group, etc. As an actor, she collaborated with the National Theatre, KTHBE, the Athens Festival, the House of Letters and Arts, etc. directed by Michael Marmarinou, Nikos Karathanos, Lefteris Vogiatzis, Lydias Koniordou, Kostantin Bogomolov, Akylla Karazisi, etc. In the cinema, she participated in Greek short and feature films. In 1999, she was awarded the prize for the best female performance for the performance The Lady with the Camellias, choreographed by Kostantinos Rigos. In 2020, she won the first female performance award for the short film Bella by Thelgia Petrakis. In 2022, she received the first female performance award at the Iris Awards of the Cinema Academy for the film Magnetic Fields by George Gousis. She has been teaching classical ballet at the National Opera School since 2011.

Movies for Elena Topalidou...

Kyuka - Before Summer's End
Title: Kyuka - Before Summer's End
Released: May 14, 2024
Type: Movie
A single father and his two adult twin children go on a sailing holiday to the island of Poros, where the twins come across and befriend two girls, and get to meet their parents – including, unbeknownst to them, their birth mother, who abandoned them when they were small.
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Arcadia
Title: Arcadia
Character: Vicky
Released: February 18, 2024
Type: Movie
Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the victim of a tragic accident at the hospital of the small town. When the local policeman informs them that the victim’s vehicle had plunged over the parapet of a stone bridge and leads them to the morgue, Katerina sees her worst suspicions confirmed. Together with Yannis, but also on her own nightly excursions to a mysterious, rustic beach bar called Arcadia, they begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together, revealing a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance and letting go.
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Fonissa
Title: Fonissa
Character: Amersa
Released: November 30, 2023
Type: Movie
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
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Highway of a Broken Heart
Title: Highway of a Broken Heart
Character: Mary
Released: September 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, on an underlit stretch of highway, Mary will come face to face with the man who broke her heart and will do everything she can to win him back.
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Title: Οι Πανθέοι
Character: Μιρέλλα
Released: September 18, 2023
Type: TV
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Aerolin
Title: Aerolin
Released: September 4, 2023
Type: Movie
Sandy is a drama school graduate and has asthma. Tonight she will be performing at the theatre. Before that, she has to teach a yoga class, work as a clown and go to an audition. In this equation, she somehow has to try and fit in Spiros, her boyfriend.
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Firebug
Title: Firebug
Released: September 4, 2023
Type: Movie
A young dad returns to his childhood home to round off a conversation that never began with his deceased father.
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Title: An August Night
Released: October 2, 2022
Type: TV
The new drama series "An August Night", which is a continuation of "The Island" takes us back to the 50s. Spinalonga closes and a feast follows in the village. The healthy meet the newly cured and all together celebrate freedom from fear and disease. But everything freezes with the murder of a woman by her husband, when he learns that his best friend had a lover.
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Magnetic Fields
Title: Magnetic Fields
Character: Elena
Released: May 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
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Moon, 66 Questions
Title: Moon, 66 Questions
Released: January 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him. Resentful of the tasking as she grew up estranged from her father, she becomes reacquainted with him over one emotional summer, learning the secret as to why their relationship was stifled.
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Soul Food
Title: Soul Food
Released: September 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.
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Ecdysis
Title: Ecdysis
Character: Lina
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
In a near-future world ravaged by environmental disaster and a deadly virus, Lina carries her infected teenage son, Aris, to a retired doctor hoping he will be able to cure him. But Aris’s infection proves extremely aggressive and Lina’s love for her son is tested as she watches him transforming into a different being.
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Bella
Title: Bella
Character: Anthi
Released: April 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Just before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, at the end of the Cold War. Everything is changing in front of Anthi’s eyes and Christos seems to be changing too. Bella is the story of a moment in time recreated as if in a feverish dream where fiction and documentary overlap perfectly, creating a striking and emotional cinematographic universe.
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Birds (Or How to Be One)
Title: Birds (Or How to Be One)
Released: January 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
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The Forest
Title: The Forest
Released: August 14, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?
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Το Δάσος
Title: Το Δάσος
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
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Deconstructing Interruption
Title: Deconstructing Interruption
Character: Herself
Released: March 17, 2016
Type: Movie
The film captures the way Yorgos Zois worked with his actors during the shooting of the film Interuption, as well as the atmosphere that evoked on the filming set.
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Interruption
Title: Interruption
Character: Participant
Released: January 28, 2016
Type: Movie
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.
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Interruption
Title: Interruption
Released: January 28, 2016
Type: Movie
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.
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Dying in Athens
Title: Dying in Athens
Character: Dancer
Released: November 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Andreas, an Art History Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is involved both with a sexy intellectual French-Greek woman and a young student of his despite being in love with his beautiful wife. When he finds out he has leukemia and only a few months to live, he decides to keep it a secret but also to talk to the women in his life about his infidelity.
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Η Γυναίκα Είναι... Σκληρός Άνθρωπος
Title: Η Γυναίκα Είναι... Σκληρός Άνθρωπος
Character: Ypefthini nekrotomiou
Released: August 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...
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The Rape of Chloe
Title: The Rape of Chloe
Released: September 11, 1995
Type: Movie
This short film adapted from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe". The pirates chasing Chloe, the capture and rape. The Bryaxis, their leader, obliges to dance for him. The syringe comes to free her…forever.
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Novak
Title: Novak
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An ageing Serbian neuroscientist lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded as a paranoid schizophrenic for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. But when, decades later, he is rediscovered by a group of young dreamers who are trying to change the world through his ideas, he decides to quit his medication and join them in their scientific commune, risking his sanity in pursuit of a higher goal.