Evelina Papoulia

Evelina Papoulia (Greek: Εβελίνα Παπούλια; born 25 March 1971) is a Greek actress and dancer. She started her career in 1993 after she finished her studied as an actress and dancer and she decided to come back to Greece. After some years of smaller roles in different successful tv series and theatre plays she rose to fame with the role of Marina Kountouratou in huge MEGA romance hit Two Strangers (1997-1999) starting an a-list lead actress career. She has also appeared in successful films as Safe Sex (1999), One plus One (2000), One time (2001), Brides (2004) and Guilt (2009).

In 1989 she moved to New York City to study dance at The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and acting at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. During her time in New York City, she took part in several plays, such as West Side Story (1993), while participating in the Mega Dance Company. Originally she wanted to obtain the American citizenship, but failing to do so she returned to Athens in 1993 and continued working as an actress. Evelina first claimed stardom as the hysterical blond TV persona Marina Kountouratou, who fell in love with a man of classic education, in Dyo Xenoi in 1997.

Her film debut was in the successful Greek film Safe Sex in 1999.

While working on TV shows, she continued her career on stage with plays such as Waiting Till Dark (1999) and the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

From 2006 until 2008, she was a judge at the Greek version of So You Think You Can Dance.

Papoulia has a daughter named Afroditi-Maria, from her first marriage to George Liantos. In May 2008, she married director Panagiotis Kravvas in Scotland^[1] and got divorced in 2008.

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