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[[Tasso Kavvadia]] (Τασσώ Καββαδία) ([[January 10]], [[1921]]-[[December 18]], [[2010]]) was an actress. She was born in [[Patras]].
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[[File:Tasso-Kavvadia-01.jpg|left|frame|Tasso Kavvadia]][[Tasso Kavvadia]] (Τασσώ Καββαδία) ([[January 10]], [[1921]]-[[December 18]], [[2010]]) was an actress. She was born in [[Patras]].
  
 
She studied music and the piano in [[Athens]], and decoration and painting in Paris, France.
 
She studied music and the piano in [[Athens]], and decoration and painting in Paris, France.

Revision as of 16:49, December 19, 2010

Tasso Kavvadia

Tasso Kavvadia (Τασσώ Καββαδία) (January 10, 1921-December 18, 2010) was an actress. She was born in Patras.

She studied music and the piano in Athens, and decoration and painting in Paris, France.

From 1954 through 1967 she worked on the radio as a producer and performer.

She made her name in film by playing the parts of harsh and unforgiving older women that gave the romantic leads a hard time - she was the bad mother-in-law, the unfeeling mother or disapproving sister that tried to prevent things from following their natural course.

She participated in some 30 films between 1955 and 2001, her last roles being that of the grandmother in the 2000 film "Beware the Greeks" and the 2002 film "Alexander and Aishe".

Apart from films, Tasso Kavvadia had also worked in theatre and television, where her repertoire was considerably more diverse, while she also did work in radio and as a journalist, a writer and a translator, especially of pop culture british novels.

Tasso Kavvadia will always be remebered as the legendary female villain of the hey-days of Greek cinema.