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Vlahopoulou, Rena
Rena Vlahopoulou (1923 - July 29, 2004) was a famous Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu.
Vlahopoulou was born on the island of Corfu, the fifth of nine children. She first began playing the piano, taught by her father, Giannis Vlahopoulos. When she turned ten, she began singing at a local bakery; she was a talented dancer, singer, and actress. Over the course of her fifty-five year career she appeared in 105 theatrical plays between 1939 and 1994, and twenty-six films between 1951 and 1985.
In 1938, Vlahopoulou fell in love with an AEK footballer, Kostas Vasileios. The pair moved to Athens and were married in the summer of 1937. Rena began singing at a variete Oasis in Zappeio where Mimis Traiforos presented her new works. In the winter of 1930-40, she sang at the World Theatre of Kostas Makedos at Panepistimiou Street. In the winter of 1940, the Italian Army bombed Corfu, and she lost two of her relatives. The marriage with Vasileiou ended, and in 1942 she married her second husband, a banker named Gianni Kostopoulos. She divorced Kostopoulos in 1946.
She married her third and final husband, Giorgos Lafazanis on September 18, 1967, but the couple remained childless. Vlahopoulou left Finos Film in 1966 and moved to Karagiannis-Karatzopoulos.
From 1972 the Greek cinema went through a period of decline because of the introduction of television to Greece in 1967, but Vlahopoulou continued to star in films for the next seven years.
During the 1980s she suffered from gastrorrhagia. Between 1992 and 1993, she appeared for her last time in the show Gia Tin Ellada Re Gamoto, after which she left the theatre.
Rena Vlahopoulou died on July 29, 2004 in an Athens hospital.
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